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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.

Tribal Construction or Major Renovation

Program Instruction CCDF-ACF-PI-2020-02
May 14, 2020

 Procedures for Requests from Tribal Lead Agencies to Use Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Funds for Construction or Major Renovation of Child Care Facilities 

This is a list of HHS-ACF COVID-19 Resources.

Office of Child Care resources regarding COVID-19.

This is a list providing information about COVID-19 for CCDF Lead Agencies

This issue brief offers examples of promising strategies implemented by Tribal MIECHV grantees that keep home visiting focused on the curriculum while also empowering families to address their needs.

Tribal MIECHV Letter

October 28, 2016

This letter stresses the importance of providing home visiting services to homeless families and their young children within your tribal communities. Ensuring the well-being of our youngest children is essential to the work of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and our partners at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and is especially urgent when considering the vulnerability of young AIAN children who experience homelessness or housing instability.

This brief—based on interviews with eight Tribal MIECHV grantees—will (1) discuss the importance of cultural enrichments of evidence-based home visiting models; (2) highlight three different approaches Tribal MIECHV grantees have pursued to shape programs to best reflect their communities; and (3) offer guidance for programs that are searching for a way to best fit home visiting within the cultural context of their communities. The brief discusses ways that grantees have approached cultural enrichment in the first 5 years of the Tribal MIECHV program.

This document details Zero to Three’s (ZTT) 30th National Training Institute (NTI), held this past December 2-4, 2015 in Seattle, WA, which brought together multidisciplinary professionals working in early care and education, home visiting, mental health, early intervention, child welfare, family support, social services, and health care for a conference focused on infant-toddler and family research, practice, and policy.

This document provides an introduction to the Tribal Home Visiting Program