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To meet both children’s developmental needs and parents’ workforce needs, government leaders and policymakers have expressed support for early care and education partnerships at the point of service delivery to build more seamless care systems and promote quality across settings. These partnerships involve two or more organizations working together to jointly provide early care and education services to young children and their families. Organizations can work together by combining funding, resources, materials, and staff to serve additional children, provide comprehensive services, enhance service quality, or provide full-day, full-year early care and education. In fiscal year 2014, the federal government further highlighted this approach by funding early learning opportunities for children from birth to age 3 through Early Head Start-child care partnerships. The grants allow new or existing Early Head Start programs to partner with local child care centers and family child care homes serving low-income families with infants and toddlers.