Form 1 ECTTAS Coordination Survey

TITLE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION: State Capacity Building Center Early Childhood Training and Technical Assistance System (ECTTAS) Coordination Survey

OMB Control No: 0970-0401

Expiration date: 05/31/2021

Instructions

The State Capacity Building Center is collecting feedback regarding its technical assistance (TA) services provided by the State Systems Specialist who are charged with a key role in coordinating training and technical assistance services. The State Systems Specialist works with you on the regional coordination of training and technical assistance services provided by the Early Childhood Training and Technical Assistance System. We would greatly appreciate your voluntary, anonymous input. We will use your feedback to inform and improve the work of the State Systems Specialists of the State Capacity Building Center.

To provide feedback, please respond using this form. The survey will only take a few minutes and all responses are anonymous.

NOTE: THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13). Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 6 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

The State Systems Specialist of the State Capacity Building Center is charged with regional coordination across the federally funded Early Childhood Training and Technical Assistance (ECTTAS) Centers in order to best meet the needs of the states and territories in the region. The ECTTAS process is used to achieve this coordination, consisting of monthly calls and other ongoing communication, planning and coordination strategies. Thinking about this process, please indicate the extent to which you agree with the statements below.

A. Overall ECTTAS Process

1. Please indicate the extent to which you agree with the statements below.

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
Thinking about the regional ECTTAS process, the needs of my center to align its offerings to the priorities and needs of the states for their Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program are being met.	1	2	3	4
Thinking about the TA refresh process (Oct-Dec 2017), the process helped my center to define state and territory needs and priorities that informs the work of my center.	1	2	3	4
The regional ECTTAS process helps me understand the context of the states and territories in the region.	1	2	3	4
The regional ECTTAS process helps me understand the TA priorities for the states in the region.	1	2	3	4
A purpose of the overall regional ECTTAS process of regional coordination is strategic planning across centers to meet the needs of states. Planning takes place that allows my center to plan better to meet state needs and priorities.	1	2	3	4
Thinking about the TA refresh process, my center was involved at the right level.	1	2	3	4

If you marked disagree or strongly disagree above or if you have any comments, please take a moment to give us a little more information.

B. Regional Monthly Calls

1. Please indicate the extent to which you agree with the statements below.
   
   
   

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
The regional ECTTAS process, and specifically, the monthly regional ECTTAS phone meetings, are meeting the purpose of supporting regional collaboration and coordination of TA.	1	2	3	4
Thinking about the regional monthly ECTTAS calls, they are of the right frequency.	1	2	3	4
Thinking about the regional monthly ECTTAS calls, they are of the right length.	1	2	3	4
Thinking about the regional monthly ECTTAS calls, my center is given an opportunity to contribute to the agenda development.	1	2	3	4

If you marked disagree or strongly disagree for the question above or if you have any comments, please take a moment to give us a little more information.

2. Thinking about the regional ECTTAS calls, what are your ideas for improving these monthly regional calls?

C. General Feedback

1. What are the strengths of the regional coordination process?

2. What are the areas for improvement for the regional coordination process?

3. What suggestions do you have to increase coordination in general across the TA Centers?

4. What suggestions do you have to increase collaboration in order to ensure useful TA is provided to meet the priorities of the states?

Thank you for participating!

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This collection of information is voluntary and will be used to collect participant feedback to shape future OCC technical assistance services. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 6 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB number and expiration date for this collection are OMB #:. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to J.R.Sayoc, [email protected].

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