Stoney Associates

Stoney Associates provides advocates deep support in complex ECE policy.

This support includes revising subsidy policy and rate-setting strategies, crafting linked ECE Technology Ecosystems that enable real-time data, enabling new ECE business models, launching responsive business coaching initiatives, revisiting licensing and QRIS standards and procedures (including innovative approaches such as micro-centers), modeling early care and education program costs, and more.

Our state allies can call on Stoney Associates to:

Help them explore and develop new approaches to early care and education policy and finance.

This includes consultation with and support for legislative commissions, state policymakers, advocacy groups, philanthropy and others seeking to craft recommendations for effective policy and finance.

Guide cost modeling for child care in their state.

Stoney Associates has extensive experience in the development of actionable, state-specific cost modeling.

Help them develop early care and education shared services plans and networks for child care centers and homes.

Past experience includes recommendations for staffed family child care networks, child care center networks, automation strategies, and alternative approaches to enabling quality at scale.

Provide technical assistance on the collection of real-time supply-and-demand data for child care.

Stoney can provide regular consultation and coaching to project directors and others seeking to lead data systems change.