Resource Library

This webinar  highlights strategies employed by states to expand equitable access to high-quality early care and education programs. Presenters, representing states that serve 3- and 4-year-olds in mixed delivery settings, shared their experiences, best practices, and recommendations for the field. Participants learned about the importance of cross-system planning and heard how states have implemented financing mechanisms, workforce supports, inclusive practices, and data systems.

This brief describes how states can provide and use data to ensure families have enough choices when selecting early care and education services and that the choices meet the needs of families in the communities they serve.

Effective outreach promotes families’ awareness of, access to, and use of early childhood care and education and comprehensive services. States, territories, tribes, and their partners can use this resource to learn the six, research-informed strategies for outreach to families living in remote or rural communities. Each strategy is designed to support and strengthen your outreach efforts. Includes related resources and specific examples from CCDF Plans.  

This resource is part of the Family Outreach Series. Other resources in the series include:

Strategies for Outreach to All Families: Overview  Strategies for Outreach to Families Experiencing Homelessness  Strategies for Outreach to Families with Limited English Proficiency

This tool provides an assessment framework for policies and practices at the local, state, and regional levels. It ensures that they support access to high- quality family child care (FCC) options.

This tool can assist states, territories, and tribes in:

Exploring if they can support FCC quality and supple strategies. Examining policies to promote high-quality FCC. Reviewing existing efforts to support FC. Assessing current outreach strategies ability to support FCC providers. Identifying priorities, goals, and next steps.

This webinar  focuses on state capacity to quantify access to early childhood programs in rural communities. It highlights states’ compilation of data, analyses of early childhood services in rural communities and their utilization, and assessment of strengths and gaps.

This report describes the strategies states used to adapt their intended PDG-B5 kindergarten transition activities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several themes emerged from interviews with Grantees including a delayed start to activities, shifts in priorities throughout the state, impacts on staffing, and adapting to virtual environments.

During the opening session for Ensuring a High-Quality Workforce strand , presenters reviewed several early childhood workforce issues. The dialogue reflected on the latest national and state efforts to tackle the most challenging workforce issues facing the field. The presenters introduced two resources, the Power to the Profession Unifying Framework and Build Stronger from the Alliance for Early Success. The presenters also discussed access to education and training post-pandemic, highlighting a move to online learning and a change in the development of new coursework towards trauma-informed and culturally responsive care.

The early childhood apprenticeship webinar  examines different models with examples from two states on how they are implementing their apprenticeship programs within their mixed delivery system, highlighting their successes, challenges, and strategies.

This brief focuses on how to build sustainable infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) services for infants and toddlers across a mixed delivery system. This brief is grounded in the perspectives of stakeholders across New York’s analogous sectors of health, mental health, education, higher education, local technical assistance, and child welfare engaged in the work of building a roadmap for sustainable, statewide IECMHC services and supports that will improve the quality of service provision for infants and toddlers.

This brief gives an overview of infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) for policymakers and program leaders, summarizing its state of research and implementation efforts. IECMHC is a prevention-oriented, multilevel intervention in which mental health professionals with training in early child development are paired with the caregivers of young children to build adult’s capacities to support children’s social-emotional development and address challenging behavior.