Ensure grantee program integrity and accountability.
Alaska’s CCDF Plan serves as the State of Alaska, Department of Health & Social Services application for CCDF funds. This three-year plan describes the overall services and activities administered by the State of Alaska Division of Public Assistance, Child Care Program Office through the following programs: Child Care Assistance; Alaska Inclusive Child Care (Alaska IN!); Child Care Licensing; Child Care Grant; and Child Care Resource and Referral.
You may comment on the draft CCDF Plan by submitting written comments to the Department of Health & Social Services, Child Care Program Office, 3601 C Street, Suite 140, Anchorage, AK 99503. Additionally, the Department of Health & Social Services will accept comments by facsimile at (907) 269-4536 and by electronic mail at samantha.ray@alaska.gov . The comments must be received not later than 5 p.m. on June 30, 2018.
Oral or written comments also may be submitted at the public hearing to be held on June 21, 2018, at the Frontier Building, in conference room 896, 3601 C St., Anchorage, AK 99503. The hearing will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. If you are unable to attend in person, but would like to comment during the oral public hearing, you can call the teleconference number 1-800-315-6338 (toll free) access code 94878.
You may submit written questions relevant to the proposed action to Samantha Ray by email at samantha.ray@alaska.gov or at 3601 C Street, Suite 140, Anchorage, AK 99503. The questions must be received at least 10 days before the end of the public comment period. The Department of Health & Social Services will aggregate its response to substantially similar questions and make the questions and responses available on the Alaska Online Public Notice System at https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/default.aspx and its website at http://dhss.alaska.gov/dpa/Pages/ccare/default.aspx .
If you are a person with a disability who needs a special accommodation in order to participate in this process, please contact Samantha Ray at samantha.ray@alaska.gov or by telephone at (907) 269-4681 not later than June 18, 2018, to ensure that any necessary accommodations can be provided.
A copy of Alaska’s draft 2019-2021 CCDF Plan is available on the Alaska Online Public Notice System at https://aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/default.aspx and on the Child Care Program Office website at: http://dhss.alaska.gov/dpa/Pages/ccare/regs.aspx. You may also obtain a copy by contacting Samantha Ray at samantha.ray@alaska.gov or (907) 269-4681.