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Tribal Home Visiting Grantee Profile

Tribal Home Visiting Grantee Profile

Knowing how many distinct children have been served by one or more early childhood programs and/or services is a foundational metric for a host of early childhood policy and programmatic analyses. This document defines "Distinct Count" and describes the factors contributing to a distinct count.

During the opening session for Using A Cross-Agency Data System to Support Mixed-Delivery Systems strand , presenters reviewed some of the innovative solutions to 2020’s most pressing data issues and the organizational needs to support the ongoing data analytic and information needs across state agencies.

During the opening session for Developing and Maintaining Strategic Partnerships strand , presenters provided a broad and historic overview of strategic partnerships in early childhood systems across the country and presented a vision for what it might look like in the future.

This checklist is designed to be utilized as a self-assessment tool by states and territories as they review their child care consumer education website for 1) alignment with CCDF consumer education website requirements; 2) recommendations within the preamble to the CCDF Final Rule; and 3) additional best practice considerations for user-friendly website design. The items within each section of the checklist reference the regulatory requirements within the CCDBG Act of 2014 and the CCDF Final Rule at 45 C.F.R. 98.33.

The tool can also be used to track the state or territory’s progress with its design and implementation of the child care consumer education website. Some of the consumer education information may be provided by offering a link to child care licensing, child care resource and referral (CCR&R) agencies, the child care subsidy website, and other state or territory government departments, offices, or agencies that offer the required child care consumer education information. The tool can also be helpful to document the URLs and links to other sites providing consumer education.

Defines mixed delivery systems and family choice and how they are related and important Describes data elements that are important to consider and collect: Documenting and demonstrating change in MDS Information families need to make choices Demonstrates an example of providing families with data that improves their ability to make choices

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 accompanying resource, User Guide for the State and Territory Infant/Toddler Child Care System Policies and Practices Too l, is based on feedback from the policy tool’s developers and initial users, and offers a variety of tips and strategies for maximum success using the tool.

Additional emergency preparedness resources can be found on the CCDF Disaster Plan Preparedness Page . 

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.