September 18, 2018
Virginia Quality is the state’s Quality Rating and Improvement System, which scores voluntarily participating providers on a scale of 1-5. Whereas a 1-rating denotes service limited to “basic care and safety,” higher scores require more in the way of staff credentials, curricula and assessment. A 1-rated home-based daycare may provide a perfectly safe, clean, and well-supervised setting, but little in the way of, say, a structured literacy curriculum. The the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAYEC) is a professional membership and accrediting organization. CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) is a composite of 15 variables, including, for example, poverty, income, single-parent households, minority status, poor English speakers, and vehicular access. While CDC intends the SVI for disaster response planning, such variables also influence children’s cognitive and social-emotional development. Data sources: Esri, TomTom, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, CDC (svi.cdc.gov), Virginia Quality (www.virginiaquality.com/parents), NAEYC (www.naeyc.org, accessed Sep. 11, 2018, used with permission).
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