The Preschool Development Grant Birth through 5 included the opportunity for states to improve and strengthen services and initiatives for infants and toddlers. Efforts by states include family child care networks, increasing slots for infant and toddlers, providing infant and early childhood mental health consultation to ECE programs, among many other initiatives. This resource page highlights resources from the National Center on Preschool Development Grant Birth to Five related to states efforts for improving the policies and practices for high-quality infant and toddler programs.
Resources
These resources focus on state efforts to improve policies and practices for high-quality care, including those for infant and toddler programs.
Investing in the Future: State Supports for Infants and Toddlers
This brief highlights 23 renewal Grantees' plans for supporting the development of infants and toddlers and describes changes eight states made due to COVID-19.
FCC Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative Pilot
This brief describes a pilot focusing on network strategies to support FCC practices that lead to improved outcomes for infants and toddlers and their families.
Improving the Supply and Quality of Child Care Programs and Services for Infants and Toddlers
A synopsis of states and territories' plans to improve the supply and quality of child care programs and services for infants and toddlers to meet CCDF requirements.
Addressing the Decreasing Number of Family Child Care Providers in the United States
This brief examines the reasons for family child care home closures and offers information that states, territories, or tribes can use to solve this problem.
Supply Building Questionnaire and Checklist
This questionnaire and checklist help states think about the challenges of creating and maintaining a supply of high-quality care for infants and toddlers.
CCR&Rs Help Communities Meet Supply and Demand Needs
This resource shares the role of CCR&R systems in child care supply and demand, focusing on supply and demand mapping, recruitment, state examples, and more.
Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care
This page gives a policy for framework, list of recommendations, and resources to help states make wise policy and practice decisions for infant and toddler care.
Information Memorandum: Building the Supply of High-Quality Child Care
ThisOCC information memorandum provides specific guidance to CCDF Lead Agencies about increasing the supply of high-quality child care.
Strengthening Infant/Toddler Child Care System Policies and Practices: A Tool for Advancing Infant/Toddler Child Care Quality
This tool supports state child care leaders and infant and toddler stakeholders as they plan and implement policies to strengthen the quality of child care services.
ITRG State Level Policy Professionals
This part of the guide helps state-level leaders improve the availability of high-quality toddler care, organized into six content areas.