This map categorizes the extent to which providers in each county used the four major initiatives of Caring for MI Future: 

• Improving spaces: The Facility Improvement Fund (FIF) helped providers improve new or existing facilities. 
• Start-up efforts: Our Strong Start (OSS) answered provider inquiries and assisted with licensing.
• Staff pipelines: Child Development Associate (CDA) scholarships helped providers earn CDAs, thus improving Michigan’s child care workforce pipeline. 
• Business sustainability: Workforce and Business Sustainability funding provided training and consultation on sustainability planning.

How to use this map
Select or hover over a county to see detailed information on that county’s use of funding of the four initiatives. If you click on a county to highlight it, you can return to the statewide view with the “Click to Reset” button at the upper right of the map.

Details on the measures
For each initiative, the proportion of uptake has been ranked by county across the state of Michigan. It is important to note that these rankings do not indicate high or low uptake of a specific initiative, as counties are compared to one another. “Low” uptake, for instance, indicates that the county saw low uptake relative to the other counties in Michigan. The “Overall” level is ranked by the combination of all four initiatives.

• No uptake: 0 providers
• Low: bottom 20% of counties (0-19.9 percentile)
• Medium-low: 20–39.9 percentile
• Medium: 40–59.9 percentile
• Medium-high: 60–79.9 percentile
• High: top 20% of counties (80-100 percentile)