What We’re Reading

Blog November 3, 2017

Hope Starts Here: Detroit’s Early Childhood Partnership

Article November 1, 2017

This report provides an overview of the Detroit Initiative called Hope Starts Here. An alliance of advocates and champions for early childhood systems, the project presents a framework to make Detroit a city that puts its young children and families first. There are six imperatives and 15 specific strategies to achieve this goal by 2027.

Taking Action on Early Learning: 17 Executive Actions for Governors

Archived Meeting Resources November 1, 2017

In this issue brief, the Center for American Progress outlines 17 non-legislative actions that support early learning programs. While not every recommendation is appropriate or feasible in every state, all are intended to present options for state executives who are committed to taking action on this critical issue.

Supporting Access to High Quality Family Child Care: A Policy Assessment and Planning Tool for States, Territories, and Tribes

Archived Meeting Resources November 1, 2017

This tool is intended to help better understand your state’s strengths, challenges, and opportunities. It can also help you prioritize next steps for policy and systems change.

Equity Action Framework

Planning Tool October 30, 2017

The Equity Action Framework is designed to support individuals and groups that want to advance racial equity in early childhood systems. The goal of a racial equity approach is to develop policies, practices, and programs that provide opportunity, promote fairness and access, and remediate racial inequities.

Self-Assessment Tool for Early Childhood Programs Serving Families Experiencing Homelessness

Archived Meeting Resources June 1, 2017

This Self-Assessment Tool for Early Childhood Programs Serving Families Experiencing Homelessness has been specifically designed for child care, Head Start and Early Head Start, and public pre-k programs as a guide for welcoming and supporting families and children experiencing homelessness into these programs.

Opportunity Denied: Let’s End Expulsions Across Early Learning Settings

Blog May 4, 2017

Tool for a Cross-Sector QRIS

Planning Tool March 1, 2017

Complete with a scoring rubric, and a self-populating summary chart, the tool is designed to assess QRIS—areas of strength as well as challenges—to inform next steps in QRIS development. This tool focuses on cross-sector QRIS that seek to support school readiness, healthy child development, and equitable outcomes for young children.

Diversity of Child Care Programs Participating in Parent Aware: An Equity Lens

Report February 1, 2017

This report describes and provides data on Parent Aware, Minnesota’s Quality Rating and Improvement System. Information, including the equity principles for which it stands and the measures in place to carry out those principles.

Getting to Equity in Obesity Prevention: A New Framework

Report January 18, 2017

This equity-oriented obesity prevention action framework, which builds on the APOP framework, was developed to aid in solving obesity as a major community health problem for the populations, subgroups, and communities that face the greatest challenges in achieving and maintaining healthy weight. What it adds is a people-oriented lens where impact depends on mounting and integrating efforts related to improving health options, economic and other resources, building community capacity, and decreasing deterrents to healthy behaviors in circumstances of systematic social disadvantage.