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Transforming Early Childhood Care and Education

Report May 1, 2018

Two reports from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation (2015) and Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education (2018)—explore the science of early childhood development, identify ways to strengthen the competencies of professionals who care for and educate young children, and recommend approaches for financing early childhood care and education in a way that supports high quality and broad access.

Let’s Talk Quality and CCDBG!

Slide Deck April 30, 2018

This presentation provides an overview of the 2018 Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and explores the quality activities that count toward the quality set-aside.

Parent Aware by the Numbers

Report April 1, 2018

This report provides information on participation in Parent Aware, Minnesota's QRIS, including growth of Parent Aware rated programs over time, future growth projections, rated programs by Star levels, and more.

Our Children’s Fear Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children

Report March 1, 2018

This report documents how the current immigration context is affecting our nation’s youngest children, under age eight, based on interviews and focus groups in 2017 with more than 150 early childhood educators and parents in six states—California, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Moving Medicaid Prevention Services Upstream: An Exploration of How to Embed Medicaid Dietician Services in Head Start Settings

Report March 1, 2018

This brief profiles how a state Medicaid agency and its partners can explore maximizing the authority that exists under federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) law to deliver an upstream preventive service in a nonclinical setting. Services for children provide an entry point for states desiring to move prevention upstream, given the robust scope of the federal Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit for children.

Medicaid and Head Start: Opportunities to Collaborate and Pay for Upstream Prevention

Report March 1, 2018

This issue brief draws upon initial experiences from Maryland Medicaid’s early efforts to explore connecting one Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) with one or more local Head Start programs in the interest of linking families to needed services — including at least one upstream preventive service — and addressing the social determinants of health. Maryland Medicaid is meeting with a Medicaid MCO, Head Start representatives and a representative from the Maryland Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to pilot the delivery of Medicaid-funded group nutritional counseling in Head Start settings.

State Policies for Assessing Access: Analysis of 2016-2018 Child Care Development Plans

Archived Meeting Resources March 1, 2018

This research report examines how states and territories are addressing, or plan to address, new requirements and goals of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) reauthorization law related to access to early care and education (ECE) services described in their 2016–2018 FY state/territory CCDF plans.