Tennessee Child Care Task Force
The Tennessee Child Care Task Force was created to help improve the quality, affordability, and access of child care in Tennessee. As part of its mission, the board meets monthly to develop Tennessee’s strategic plan to address child care challenges.
Task Force Purpose
The task force is created by Public Chapter No. 474 to recommend a strategic action plan to guide the administration and general assembly on how to:
- Address the challenges of quality, affordability, and accessibility of child care in this state;
- More effectively use public resources to address those challenges;
- Build partnerships between government and the business sector, through which businesses are motivated to create and participate in strategies that address the child care needs of their employees; and
- Streamline coordination between the department of human services, department of labor and workforce development, department of economic and community development, department of health, and department of education in developing solutions to the state's child care challenges.
Task Force Members
- Commissioner Clarence Carter (Chair), Tennessee Department of Human Services
- Blair Taylor (Vice-Chair), Memphis Tomorrow President
- Pat Sheehy (2nd Vice-Chair), Tennessee Business Roundtable President
- Commissioner Jeff McCord, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development
- Commissioner Bob Rolfe, Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development
- Commissioner Penny Schwinn, Tennessee Department of Education
- Commissioner Lisa Piercey, Tennessee Department of Health
- Senator Becky Massey
- Representative Patsy Hazlewood
- Jeremy Biggs, Oak Ridge Methodist Medical Center, President & CAO
- Ryan Hughes, Boys and Girls Club in Tennessee Executive Director
- Chlore Moore, NEXT Memphis Director
- Phil Accord, Chambliss Center for Children President & CEO
Task Force Meetings
The Tennessee Child Care Taskforce meets monthly and members of the public are permitted to attend board meetings in-person or view board meetings streaming online.
All meetings are on the third Thursday of the month, except for November 2021 and April 2022. Meetings will tentatively start at 1:00 p.m. Central in Nashville. Click here for a listing of all meeting dates.
December 15, 2022 1:00 PM (Central)
Tennessee Tower, Innovation and Imagine Station, 3rd Floor
312 Rosa L. Parks Avenue
Nashville, TN 37219
Watch online: https://dgs.streamingvideo.tn.gov/Mediasite/Play/61d372419d4b423ba368523ec79b80cb1d
September 30, 2021 Meeting Materials
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting Presentation
- Meeting Materials - Child Care Services Transformation White Paper
- Meeting Minutes
October 21, 2021 Meeting Materials
November 9, 2021 Meeting Materials
December 16, 2021 Meeting Materials
January 20, 2022 Meeting Materials
February 17, 2022 Meeting Materials
March 17, 2022 Meeting Materials
April 12, 2022 Meeting Materials
May 19, 2022 Meeting Materials
June 16, 2022 Meeting Materials
July 21, 2022 Meeting Materials
August 18, 2022 Meeting Materials
September 15, 2022 Meeting Materials
October 20, 2022 Meeting Materials
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting PPT
- Meeting Recording
November 17, 2022 Meeting Materials
- Meeting Agenda
- Meeting PPT
- Meeting Recording
Tennessee Child Care Task Force Final Report
As statutorily mandated through Public Chapter 474 of the Acts of the 112th Tennessee General Assembly, the State of Tennessee convened a Tennessee Child Care Task Force (CCTF) to develop a strategic action plan for increasing the availability of high quality, affordable, and accessible child care in this state, for building partnerships between government and the business sector, and to identify resources across state government departments that could be streamlined, coordinated, and more effectively utilized to address child care challenges. This final report details the CCTF’s recommendations and proposed strategic action plans to implement those recommendations.