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Head Start supports children’s cognitive and social-emotional development. It places special emphasis on the reading and mathematics skills children need to be successful in elementary school and beyond and, for AIAN programs.
This report recognizes opportunities to enhance tribal social services and access to educational services through appropriate outlines of Native children and youth.
This MMIP Action Plan updates the TAC’s earlier work and responds to recent White House directives. It also advances the whole of government commitment to addressing the MMIP crisis and sets out a multipronged approach to advance ACF’s work in preventing violence to Native people promoting healing from historical trauma. Importantly, it adopts responsive administrative processes such as equity, self-governance, and Indigenous knowledge, as well as identifying ways to leverage ACF’s grant funding, community engagement, and rulemaking authority.
A review done by the Bipartisan Policy Center, resulted in this report titled “Righting a Wrong: Advancing Equity in Child Care Funding for American Indian and Alaska Native Families.”