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California’s Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership (Partnership) is designed to build on existing state infrastructure that supports a high-quality early care and education system. The Partnership involves both center and family child care home education networks centered in 11 rural counties in Northern California where previously awarded federal grant funds from the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge funds were not available.

The Northern Mariana Island’s (CNMI) Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership (Partnership) is administered through a collaborative partnership between the CNMI Public School System and the CNMI Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, the state agency that oversees the state’s child care subsidy program. The Partnership is embedded within a broader systemic strategy aimed at strengthening CNMI’s comprehensive Birth-5 continuum. Based on the strong relationship the Partnership enjoys with the Commonwealth’s public school system, transition planning is incorporated into family plans and maintains a strong focus within the grant initiative.

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This policy brief summarizes selected literature on homeless families with children who are less than five years old, and incorporates findings from a project prepared for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) on the challenges facing families with young children who are temporarily staying with others or in motels/hotels. The aim of this policy brief is to examine the following questions from the project: What are families’ current living arrangements, and do they have alternative plans for shelter if they cannot stay at their current temporary location and are unable to receive the services of a shelter? What conditions are homeless families and children exposed to when they cannot or do not access the services of a shelter? To what extent are families knowledgeable about the federally sponsored early childhood support services available to them?

This joint letter between HHS and ED discusses how the policy statement on family engagement indicates the increasing families' involvement in children;'s learning and development can positively affect lifelong health, developmental, and academic outcomes.

The purpose of this guidance document is to support states and early childhood programs by providing recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for developing and implementing career pathways to support the professional learning, practice, and compensation of early childhood educators and program directors.

The Early Learning Career Pathways Initiative: Examining and Supporting Credentialing in the the Early Care and Education Field report describes the Six Key Elements of Career Pathways (CP) Framework which outlines the foundational components in building a career pathway system: Build Cross-Agency Partnerships and Clarify Roles; Identify Sector or Industry and Engage Employers; Design Education and Training Programs; Identify Funding Needs and Sources; Align Policies and Programs; and, Measure System Change and Performance.

This report introduces a career pathways framework 4 in use by several federal agencies, provides a national landscape of states’ requirements for ECE staff related to credentialing, highlights five states at various points in the development of ECE career pathways, and shows how early learning system components used in the majority of states align with the Six Key Elements of Career Pathways Framework that other industries use.

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