The Early Childhood Services Bureau receives the following grants:

• The Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) assists Montana in improving the overall quality of child care services that support healthy development  and school readiness needs of children.
• The Montana Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grant is addressing the mitigation of toxic stress and trauma in infancy and early childhood. The key components of the grant include prevention, promotion, and intervention. 
• The Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships Grant provides children and families with access to high-quality early learning experiences that support working families by providing a full-day, full-year program so that more vulnerable children have the healthy and enriching early experiences they need to realize their full potential.
• The Montana Preschool Development Grant (MPDG) supports state and local efforts to build, develop, and expand High-Quality Preschool Programs so children from low-and moderate-income families enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and in life.
• Montana Project LAUNCH (Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health) is funded by a federal grant received by DPHHS in September 2014. The goal is to engage Montana’s early childhood partners to improve systems and access to mental health services for young children and families in our rural state while piloting evidence-based practices in Gallatin and Park Counties.

• The Early Childhood Services Bureau partners with Child Care Resource and Referral agencies to offer a variety of early care and education services.
• The Early Childhood Services Bureau houses the Best Beginnings Advisory Council (BBAC). The BBAC serves as the comprehensive early childhood advisory council for Montana.
• The Early Childhood Services Bureau contracts with the Montana Early Childhood Project (ECP) to manage the state’s early childhood Career Development System. The ECP is dedicated to improving the quality of programs and services for Montana’s young children and their families. The ECP is located at Montana State University-Bozeman in the Department of Health and Human Development. The ECP collaborates with many organizations and associations in Montana to enhance its ability to assist families and promote helpful programs and services statewide.
• The Early Childhood Services Bureau collaborates with Child Care Licensing to support child care licensing requirements. The goal of the partnership between ECSB and Child Care Licensing is to ensure licensing standards and interpretation of rule meet the needs of child care providers as well as the STARS to Quality program. STARS to Quality works very closely with Child Care Licensing to ensure training requirements and criteria are complimentary and not duplicated potentially streamlining the process for licensing and STARS.