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What You Need to Know About the New “Preschool Development Grant B5”

Policy Agenda July 1, 2018

The resource below provides additional information about the grants and compares them to the similar, yet unrelated federal “Preschool Development Grant” (Legacy PDG) created during the Obama administration as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Toward Integration: State Approaches to Head Start Partnering in Quality Rating Improvement Systems

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

The brief explores why Head Start and QRIS integration is meaningful, some emerging issues related to integration, and the role of Head Start-QRIS integration in addressing equity.

Early Childhood Interrupted: The Effect of Disasters, Natural or Otherwise on Vulnerable Children and Families

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

Today’s discussion is a 'call to action' with diverse humanitarian response teams and federal/state/local child advocates who support preparation, recovery and equitable outcomes for young children and families when disaster strikes.

Early Care and Education Programs are Sensitive Locations

Fact Sheet July 1, 2018

This blog post explores local-level Child Care Resource and Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) as one option for supporting families in their search for infant and toddler child care. The expansion of the Child Care and Development Block Grant opens many new opportunities for investment in strategies such as those profiled from Indiana and Illinois.

Program Agenda

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS National Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all sessions, sponsors and conference events.

QRIS Infant & Toddler Program 2018

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all of the sessions focused on infant and toddler care.

Session 202 Maximizing CCDF Impact for Infants and Toddlers Resources to Support Planning for Home Based Child Care

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This resource list supports a presentation - Maximizing CCDF Impact for Infants and Toddlers Financing Strategies to Build Supply of Infant and Toddler Care -from the 2018 QRIS Meeting.

Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies: INFANT TODDLER SESSIONS

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS National Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all sessions, sponsors and conference events.

Session 202: Maximizing CCDF Impact for Infants and Toddlers Workforce Considerations

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This document notes highlights of a presentation - Maximizing CCDF Impact for Infants and toddlersWorkforce Considerations - from the 2018 QRIS Meeting.

A Proposal for PA’s Infant Toddler Agenda

Archived Meeting Resources July 1, 2018

This slide deck from the 2018 QRIS National Meeting describes a proposal for Pennsylvania’s Infant toddler agenda. The agenda is built on the principles of paying for high quality at true cost of care, offered tiered base rates to advantage high quality, aligning capacity and funding to growth over 10 years and fostering state policy that incentivizes parents to choose high quality.