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During the opening session for A Comprehensive Approach to Behavioral and Social-Emotional Health strand , presenters outlined important considerations for state program administrators designing an early childhood system that supports the social-emotional learning and mental health of young children and their families. The session also presented a framework for how multiple early childhood service programs fit within a larger early childhood system of care.

This webinar , provides resources and examples from other states on updating, communicating and using the strategic plan to communicate to external audiences about progress and goals.

This webinar  provides information about states with successful, enduring processes in place that result in an ongoing strategic plan for their early childhood system. State presenters focus on their context, how they are sustaining this work, and their peer recommendations to other states. Participants receive ideas that states can consider about how to create enduring processes that result in an ongoing (rather than intermittent) early childhood strategic plan that is seen as an integral component of the state’s early childhood system

This webinar reviews Strategic Plan guidance discussed participant questions and explained the Strategic Plan crosswalk and submission process.

This webinar includes questions from grantees, grantee experience with strategic planning work to date, and PDG B-5 Strategic Plan submission process information.

This guide provides guidance for PDG B-5 state leads and teams for using the evaluation of the strategic plan to communicate to external audiences about progress and goals.

PDG B-5 grantees are required to develop or revise a strategic plan that supports collaboration and coordination among existing ECE programs in a mixed-delivery system with a state or territory. The plan will focus on establishing and maintaining an ECE system designed to support all children and their families, but particularly those identified as most vulnerable by their state or territory. Each state or territory’s PDG B-5 Strategic Plan will identify goals and action steps to directly address the specific areas for improvement identified in the needs assessment and reflect a comprehensive systems-plan approach. Grantees have the opportunity to create their strategic plans in a way that best fits their needs, and should establish the strategies that fit the needs of the participants involved in the work and invested in the outcome.

The following set of resources was created to support PDG B-5 grantees in creating strategic plans for comprehensive, mixed-delivery systems for children and families.

PDG B-5 grantees are required to conduct or update a periodic, statewide birth through five (B-5) needs assessment of the availability and quality of existing programs in the state.  The following set of resources was created to support PDG B-5 grantees in their work establishing and carrying out the needs assessment process:

Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) initial grantees are required to develop program performance evaluation (PPE) plans that detail how they will self-examine the implementation, outputs, and outcomes of their PDG B-5 grant activities. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) intends for PDG B-5 grantees to use PPE to support implementation of PDG B-5 strategic plans and data-based decision making while facilitating collaboration and coordination among existing early childhood programs in a mixed delivery system (MDS). Grantees can use PPE to assess progress toward pre-established goals and objectives identified in their strategic plans, identify opportunities for continuous quality improvement and share lessons learned.This document serves as ACF’s initial PPE guidance document and includes recommendations grantees can consider as they create their PPE plan.

All grantees were required to create a Program Performance Evaluation Plan (PPEP) as part of their initial PDG B-5 grants with the intent that Grantees would continue to use and update their PPEPs throughout their grant period and in the future. This webinar  will increase Grantee knowledge and capacity for updating and using their PPEPs for continuous evaluation of their birth through five mixed delivery options within their early childhood care and education system.