Each county/consortia has their own way of running the RTT-ELC QRIS pilot. Some provide cash incentives to participate. Others provide coaching and materials based on needs identified in the ECERS and CLASS asessments. I believe all of them provide trainings to providers who are participating. These incentives will not be provided after the pilot phase ends and it is implemented state wide. These incentives are offered now to get providers on board and to help them be prepared for when it does become mandatory. I believe the incentive at that point to work towards achieving a high tier rating will be that those with higher ratings will recive higher levels of state subsidized reimbursement for families enrolled who recieve those subsidies. But, at that time it is not likely that the independent CLASS assessment, independent ECERS/FCCERS assessments, etc will be provided and we will have to pay for those to be done, or we will be unable to achieve the higher tier rating without them.

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