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Delaware’s Early Head Start Child Care Partnership (Partnership) grant is housed within the Office of Early Learning, which administers DE’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS), Delaware Stars, CCDF licensing and Head Start Collaboration. Both family and center based partners participate. All of the center and family provider partners operate at a 3, 4 or 5 QRIS rating. Each partner identifies county-level service priorities, which include dual-language children, homeless children, children in foster care, and children in military families.                                                  

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 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 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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This policy statement from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education (ED) provides recommendations1 to early childhood systems and programs on family engagement.