Supercharge PEEPs 2025
Documents and Content
- March 27, 2025 Memorandum from Jan Lesher, Pima County Administrator
- United Way presentation: Pima Early Education Program Scholarships
- PEEPS Preschool Initiative: A Study of Action on Common Community Interests
- First Things First supports PEEPS
- Summary of efforts to expand high quality early learning (including PEEPS)
- The Business of Child Care Fact Sheet
Below is a demo of the Upfront Program (known as CFR’s SandboxAz.org Program). CCRR is allowed to use this for the referral side of our program, but DES has not given us permission for CCRR to use it for the Provider Portal or Mapping capabilities. We are also working on an Employer Module to help employers match employees with Child Care providers.
The State needs this program to be able to get real-time (not census) data on provider care, deserts and needs across Arizona, especially in the Rural areas. CFR has purchased this platform because we saw a need that DES does not have the money to support. We came upon the platform because DES intended to support this with Covid funds, and asked CFR to research it, but instead saw the important need to support providers in a different way. CFR stepped up to help and purchased the program.
This program can easily connect with other platforms that are being used throughout DES contracts and other partners, such as SWHD and FTF, both of whom are on board with implementing this program/platform. This would provide a seamless, one-stop platform for Providers and grantees to connect. It will also allow providers and families to connect, as well as create a real-time platform for providers to update their program information, vacancy spots, communicate with families, etc.
Please feel free to share far and wide as we need support in getting DES and the Governor’s office to be aware of what we already have in place (no need to spend millions of dollars, as other states have done), for other programs and allow us to move forward with implementing this platform.
Articles
- A New Luxury Building Amenity the Whole Neighborhood Can Use: Child Care
The New York Times - New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line.
Videos