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There have been many resources developed to provide information and approaches on how to support families and children experiencing homelessness. This tip sheet considers those resources and highlights strategies to increase collaboration among state-wide early childhood programs and services to support families experiencing homelessness.
This tool is designed to support State child care leaders and I/T stakeholders as they assess, prioritize, plan, implement, and evaluate State policies to strengthen the quality of child care services that infants, toddlers, and their families receive. The tool also aims to assist I/T child care leaders as they create strategies, policies, protocols, and systems that:
Identify relationship-based care as essential to quality infant/toddler child care; Engage, inform, and connect with families of infants and toddlers; Strengthen the quality and conditions of the infant/toddler workforce to help meet the unique needs of infants and toddlers in child care settings; Increase the supply, health and safety, sustainability, and quality of infant/toddler child care settings; Coordinate and integrate cross-sector systems that serve infants, toddlers, and their families; and Support infants, toddlers, and their families through emergencies and disasters.
The following questionnaire and checklist are designed to help you think about the challenges of creating and maintaining a supply of high-quality care for infants and toddlers in your state or territory. Not all questions may be applicable to your plans for addressing this challenge. The questions and tables are an aid for starting conversations about this issue in your state or territory.
Action is needed to ensure that family child care remains a strong, healthy component of the early childhood education system. This brief examines the reasons family child care homes close and offers information that your state, territory, or tribe can use to solve this problem.
The paper was revised in March 2020 to include final data about the number of licensed child care facilities and licensed capacity from the 2017 Child Care Licensing Study.
The purpose of this resource is to provide 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 3 percent set-aside requirements.
The Family Child Care Network Cost Estimation Tool (CET) is designed to assist State, regional and local organizations in better understanding the costs associated with operating a staffed family child care (FCC) network. The CET can be used to estimate the operating costs for states and communities for services offered by a staffed FCC network. This document is a user's guide that provides instructions for the CET.
This brief highlights the 23 renewal Grantees’ plans for supporting the development of infants and toddlers and describes the changes that eight of the states had to make to their infant/toddler initiatives due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report presents a summary of the 23 Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG-B5) renewal states’ planned CEE activities as they were written into their grant applications in late 2019. The report analyzes the states’ proposed activities for six defining features: 1) nature of the main activities, 2) scope of programs (or funding streams) involved, 3) characteristics of the state’s CEE approach, 4) implementation stage of the CEE activities, 5) geographic level of implementation (i.e., local/regional, state), and 6) use of a data system to support CEE. It also describes the challenges that a sample of states faced in implementing these CEE activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report discusses the strategies these states used to adapt their work to the pandemic context and meet new needs as well as the implications of these pandemic experiences on states’ broader efforts to implement CEE within their comprehensive early childhood care and education systems.
This brief focuses on current research trends and implications for racial and ethnic disparities related to early childhood. It highlights policy choices to reduce disparities and set children and families on more favorable trajectories, contributing to their school success and ability to live happy, fulfilled lives.
This webinar focuses on building state capacity to consider equity in data collection, specifically administrative data, to improve equitable access and outcomes through data collection and analysis. Iheoma Iruka, Founding Director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute shares best practices for analyzing data through an equity lens.The webinar is geared towards those within State, territory, and Tribal agencies who are working in data collection and analysis. The webinar provides information and examples that address the following questions:
What does equity look like in an early childhood mixed delivery system? How can States/Territories/Tribes use existing data to identify areas of inequity? How can State/Territory/Tribal early childhood agencies use data to communicate need to their state legislature?
