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Blueprint for Early Childhood Federal Policy

Part of the Resource Collection: Project HOPE Protocols to Support a Leadership Learning Journey Planning Tool
By: BUILD Initiative July 1, 2018
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Federal policies designed to benefit young children and communities are pursued through the implementation of regulations and funding streams. This protocol is designed to review the intent of a federal policy, map state discretion, and build a bigger picture of the resources designed to support young children, their families and their communities.

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In Minnesota, Designing and Re-designing Systems that Work

Podcast January 19, 2022

Minnesota has gathered a group of community-based organizations and tribal nations to envision pathways to early childhood statewide systems. Host Karen Ponder and BUILD executive director Susan Hibbard discuss state-funded initiatives with Jovon Perry, director of Economic Assistance and Employment Supports at Minnesota’s Children and Family Services, and Cindi Yang, director of the Child Care Services Division of Children and Family Services.

Home-Based Child Care: Supporting HBCC Educators Whose Primary Language is Other than English

Archived Meeting Resources December 17, 2021

This is the slide deck from the November 16 webinar, Home-Based Child Care: Supporting HBCC Educators Whose Primary Language is Other than English. Home-Based Child Care is popular because many providers offer flexible schedules and are more familiar and affordable to families than child care centers. In addition, many families are able to find home-based providers with cultural and/or linguistic backgrounds similar to their own. Nearly one-fifth of the ECE workforce are immigrants, with many educators speaking languages other than English, and close to a quarter of all HBCC providers speaking Spanish. During this webinar, participants learned how states and communities can recognize and support this critical population of educators.