The office shall: (1) assess critical child care needs throughout the state on an ongoing basis and focus its activities on helping to meet the most critical needs; (2) provide child care subsidy services for income-eligible children through age 12 and for income- eligible children with disabilities through age 18; (3) provide information: (a) to employers for the development of options for child care in the work place; and (b) for educating the public in obtaining quality child care; (4) coordinate services for quality: (a) child care training; (b) child care resource and referral core services; and (c) training and education regarding child behavioral health interventions and competencies; (5) apply for, accept, or expend gifts or donations from public or private sources; (6) provide administrative support services to the committee; (7) work collaboratively with the following for the delivery of quality child care, early childhood programs, and school age programs throughout the state: (a) the State Board of Education; (b) the Department of Health; and (c) the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health within the Department of Human Services; (8) research child care programs and public policy to improve the quality and accessibility of child care, early childhood programs, and school age programs in the state; (9) provide planning and technical assistance for the development and implementation of programs in communities that lack child care, early childhood programs, and school age programs; (10) provide organizational support for the establishment of nonprofit organizations approved by the Child Care Advisory Committee, created in Section 35A-3-205; (11) coordinate with the department to include in the annual written report described in Section
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