Name of Session:
Streamlining the Application, Eligibility, and Enrollment Processes for Families
Presenters:
Leslie McAllister, Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Resource Center; and Cassandra Ferder, Oregon
Description:
Relationships, partners, and services are all needed for a coordinated application, eligibility and enrollment system. PDG B-5 grantees have various models and are in varying stages of development of their systems. In this session, participants will hear about successes and challenges others have experienced when developing their coordinated application, eligibility and enrollment systems. Come to this session ready to share where you team is in their process and learn more about what may be next in your process.
Link to Materials: StreamliningCAFE (PDF)
Name of Session:
State Innovations in Addressing Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Systems
Presenters:
Harriet Dichter, Child Care State Capacity Building Center; Amanda Varley and Tracy Roloff, Minnesota; and Desirae Carrera, California
Description:
The PDG B-5 TA Center, in partnership with the Child Care State Capacity Building Center, will discuss equity in the context of state and federal early childhood systems. This session will unpack equity within the dimensions of state capacity building and look at examples of PDG B-5 grantees taking steps to address equity within these dimensions.
Link to Materials: State Innovations Equity (PDF)
Name of Session:
Home Visiting Innovations Using PDG B-5 Funds
Presenters:
Leslie McAllister, Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Resource Center; Amber Shelton, Delaware; Jonnie Taton, Michigan; and Diane Fox, Ohio
Description:
Home visiting is one delivery mechanism supported through PDG B-5 grants. But what does meaningful engagement of the home visiting workforce in preschool development look like? This session will explore how home visiting can prove a vital component of any early childhood system’s structure and share examples of how states are currently using their PDG B-5 funds to engage home visiting providers. The PDG B-5 awardee recipient from Delaware will share how they are using PDG B-5 funds to collaborate with home visiting around infant and early childhood mental health consultation.
Link to Materials:
Day 2 130on Cabinet Home Visiting Resources (PDF)
Home Visiting Innovations (PDF)
Name of Session:
Meeting the Needs of the Littlest Ones: PDG B-5 Infant/Toddler Initiatives
Presenters:
Alexa Watkins, Child Care State Capacity Building Center; and Meghan Leclerc, Colorado
Description:
The PDG B-5 Center, in collaboration with the Infant/Toddler TA Specialist Network at the Child Care State Capacity Building Center, is offering this session devoted to understanding the needs of the youngest children and their families and exploring state-level strategies PDG B-5 grantees are implementing to address these needs. Examples of the work PDG B-5 grantees are doing in this area will be presented.
Link to Materials: Meeting Needs Infants Toddlers (PDF)
Name of Session:
Using the EnAct! Framework for a Statewide Integrated Early Childhood Health System
Presenters:
Christina Bethell, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, and Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
Description:
The Engagement In Action (EnAct!) framework was designed to serve as a national model focused on translating the science of healthy development by scaling strategies, innovations, and policies to equitably promote child flourishing, school readiness and family resilience, foster positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and prevent and mitigate the impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The EnAct! framework achieves its positive health equity purpose using a through any door family engaged approach powered by interoperable whole child and family assessment and data sharing tools and health promotion interventions that drive collaboration across health care, early childhood systems and community partners as they work to close persistent gaps in the utilization, quality and equity of preventive and developmental services for children aged 0-5.
Link to Materials: Day 1 1030pm Old Georgetown enAct (PDF)
Name of Session:
Voices of Collaboration: Federal Partnerships to Strengthen the Early Childhood System
Presenters:
Alayna Schreier, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; and Dina Lieser, Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Description:
Inspired by a call from the field, leaders across federal agencies identified a shared vision for improving health and well-being outcomes for young children and their families. The Early Childhood Systems (ECS) Collective Impact Project aims to advance a unified system and a coordinated approach to implementation of early childhood programs. This session will highlight tools and recommendations from the ECS Collective Impact Project for federal action to support program alignment and coordination, catalyze action, and accelerate equitable early childhood and family well-being outcomes. Implications and opportunities for state and local systems building will be discussed.
Link to Materials: Voices of Collaboration Federal (PDF)
Name of Session:
Smoothing Out The Bumps: State Strategies for Children's Transition to Kindergarten and the Primary Grades
Presenters:
Lee Anne Larsen, Maine; Heather Craiglow and Marika Padilla, Colorado; and Kristin Weller and Nancy Hampton, New York
Description:
How are states supporting young children’s transition to kindergarten and the primary grades? This session spotlights three states that have launched initiatives to smooth out the bumps inherent in transition. Colorado has taken a systems-wide approach to facilitate children’s and families’ transitions to kindergarten by focusing on both the “senders” and the “receivers.” Maine has taken a pre-K—Grade 3 approach to professional development (school administrators and teachers) coupled with curricular changes that reflect how children learn in kindergarten through third grade. New York has provided small grants to fund innovative strategies for kindergarten transition. Following state presentations, participants will engage in roundtable discussions to get deeper into the “how” of these states’ initiatives and share information on their own states’ or territories’ efforts.
Link to Materials: Smoothing out the bumps K transitions (PDF)