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This issue brief—based on interviews with eight Tribal Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting (Tribal MIECHV) grantees1— focuses on the ways in which home visiting programs can promote the development of early language and literacy skills, which are important aspects of child development. The brief starts with a short overview of early child development to illustrate how language, literacy, and culture are nested within overall development. It reviews why early language and literacy is important and the need for home visiting programs to be intentional in helping families support children’s language and literacy development. The brief shares examples of how Tribal MIECHV grantees are helping families build upon everyday activities from storytelling to singing, talking, reading, and other strategies. It also highlights
how some grantees are tapping into community resources to extend language and literacy offerings.

This is a summary of Child Care Provisions of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or “CARES Act”

Office of Child Care resources regarding COVID-19.

State and Territory Child Care and Development Fund Administrators

ACF-700 Tribal Annual Report

Office of Child Care Regional Program Managers

Program Instruction CCDF-ACF-PI-2010-05: Procedures to consolidate the CCDF program with other employment and training funding sources under a P.L. 102-477 plan.