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Waiting Lists for Child Care Assistance in Early 2007

Alabama: Data for December 2001 were not available so data from November of that year were used instead.
Arkansas: The 2006 waiting list total is as of April 27 of that year. The 2007 waiting list total is as of May 3 of that year.
California: Counties maintain waiting lists, but until recently there was no statewide total for the number of families and children on those lists. The totals reported for 2001 and 2006 were estimated figures. The 2007 total is a preliminary count based on initial efforts to develop a consolidated statewide list.
Colorado: Waiting lists are kept at the county level, rather than at the state level. Four counties had waiting lists in 2001, but data on the total number of children on waiting lists in counties that had them were not available. In addition, four counties had frozen intake in 2001. In 2006, six counties had waiting
lists. In 2007, no counties had waiting lists.
District of Columbia: The waiting list total for 2001 may have included some children living in the wider metropolitan area that encompasses parts of Maryland and Virginia.
Florida: The waiting list total reported for 2006 is as of January 31 of that year.
Georgia: The waiting list total for 2006 is as of April of that year. The waiting list total for 2007 is as of January of that year.
Indiana: In addition to the waiting list, some counties ran out of funding and stopped accepting applications for assistance in 2001.
Massachusetts: The waiting list total for 2006 is as of June 28 of that year.
Minnesota: The waiting list total for 2006 is as of December 2005. The waiting list total for 2007 is as of January of that year.
Mississippi: The waiting list total for 2006 is as of June 30, 2005.
New Jersey: Data for 2001 were not available, so data from March 2002 were used instead.
New York: Waiting lists are kept at the county level and statewide data are not available. In February 2006, 13 out of 58 counties had an active waiting list. Similar data are not available for 2007. Each county also has the authority to freeze intake and stop adding names to its waiting list.
Tennessee: When the state reported its data in 2001 and 2006, the state had frozen intake for families not in the TANF or Transitional Child Care programs. The waiting list figure for each year represents the number of children on the waiting list when intake was closed. The state did not provide a similar number for 2007, when the waiting list was also frozen. The state only provides child care assistance to families with a connection to the TANF program, teenage parents in school, and caretakers in TANF child-only cases who are employed full time.
Texas: Local workforce development boards maintain waiting lists. The totals in the table represent the aggregate number of children on waiting lists across all boards. In addition, some boards have stopped taking applications for child care assistance or adding names to the waiting list. Also note that the waiting list total reported for 2006 is as of January of that year.
Virginia: Data for December 2001 were not available, so data from January of that year were used instead.

Data obtained from the National Women's Law Center. State Child Care Assistance Policies 2007: Some Steps Forward, More Progress Needed, September 2007.

Compiled by: National Association for Child Care Resources and Refferal Agencies