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Provider Perceptions of Parent Aware: Minnesota’s Quality Rating and Improvement System

Policy Agenda May 1, 2019

This brief provides the support of state programs offering child care, early education, and developmental supports for young children; critical information about the demographic makeup of young children today; and suggestions for how state leaders can equitably advance high-quality early education programs in the context of growing diversity among the young child population.

What is a Prenatal to 3 System? NCIT Capacity Building Hub

Archived Meeting Resources April 1, 2019

This slide deck supports the NCIT Capacity Building Hub Webinar What is a Prenatal to Three System? Among the topics covered are trends in state action to support infants and toddlers, creating an intentional process to increase equity, information about funding streams to support PN-3 work, and strategies for using data to increase equity.

Inequitable Access to Child Care Subsidies

Report April 1, 2019

This brief examines children’s access to CCDBG-funded child care in states by race and ethnicity using publicly available data from fiscal year (FY) 2016, building upon CLASP’s previous Disparate Access research.1 (A change in CCDBG administrative data reporting for FY 2016 allowed us to consider children's race and ethnicity concurrently for the first time.

A Guide to Creating “Safe Space” Policies for Early Childhood Programs

Report April 1, 2019

This guide provides practitioners, advocates, and policymakers with information and resources to design and implement “safe space” policies that safeguard early childhood programs against immigration enforcement. It includes three parts: Part I. Overview of “safe space” policies, Part II. Template “safe space” policy, Part III. Key resources for parents and providers.

Trauma Informed Services and Policies to Support Immigrant and Mixed Status Families in Early Care and Education: An Overview of Immigration Policy and Trauma

Archived Meeting Resources April 1, 2019

This slide deck from the webinar Trauma-Informed Services and Policies to Support Immigrant and Mixed Status Families in Early Care and Education provides an overview of immigration policy and trauma. Topics covered include the impact of US immigration policy change, what Early Care and Education stakeholders can do, and what’s next for work with infants, children and families.

The Role of Licensing in Supporting Quality Practices in Early Care and Education

Report March 1, 2019

The primary purpose of this brief is to describe a framework for the role of licensing in supporting quality ECE. We hope that this framework will assist Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and licensing administrators in their work to oversee ECE. We also hope that it will help researchers in their efforts to articulate and test hypotheses that improve our understanding of the relationship between licensing and quality.

Leading by Exemplar: Case Studies of Head Start Programs

Case Study March 1, 2019

This report from Bellwether Education Partners, Leading by Exemplar: Case Studies of Head Start Programs, is an in-depth analysis of five high-performing Head Start programs from across the country. The programs highlighted in this analysis were selected because they demonstrate significant positive impacts on children’s learning.

Reaching Across The Rupture: Six Tips For Bipartisan Collaboration

Blog March 1, 2019

This BUILD Initiative blog post features an interview with BUILD distinguished fellow Karen Ponder about her participation in a White House meeting with Ivanka Trump and early childhood leaders and her thoughts about the importance of bipartisan collaboration in building support for children and families.

Groundwork Ohio Response to Ohio Department of Medicaid Request for Information

Report January 1, 2019

Groundwork Ohio shares a common goal with the state and the Ohio Department of Medicaid to ensure that all our children grow up healthy and equipped to reach their full potential. This document outlines Groundwork Ohio’s response to a request for information from Ohio’s Department of Medicaid. It provides data on the current health and wellbeing of Ohio’s young children and outlines strategies for leveraging Medicaid to advance healthy early childhood development.