Early Childhood and Medicaid/CHIP: Opportunities for Partnering
This slide deck, Early Childhood and Medicaid CHIP: Opportunities for Partnering, presented by Debbie I. Chang from Nemours Children’s Health System provides highlights of the paper with the same name. The presentation covers why Medicaid/CHIP needs to be at the early childhood table, how Medicaid/CHIP programs work, strategies for ECE experts to engage Medicaid/CHIP, and examples of Medicaid/CHIP and ECE collaboration.
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The US Census Bureau Misclassified the Hmong. Our Community Suffers as a Result
Blog May 21, 2024
Recently, the US Census Bureau reclassified Hmong Americans from Southeast Asian to East Asian. This misclassification not only ensures that resources will not be allocated to the educational, health, and mental health services the Hmong community need, it erases their cultural history and identity.
Reducing Disparities for Latino Children and Families: A National Latino Infant Policy Agenda Provides Solutions
Blog April 10, 2024
BUILD believes that to effectively meet the needs of young children and their families, we must recognize existing disparities, including opportunity and achievement gaps. Therefore, we see the urgent need to support policy solutions to better serve Latino infants, toddlers, and families.
Operationalizing High-Quality Dual Language Programming: From the Early Years to the Early Grades
Report April 9, 2024
The aim of this brief, from Children's Equity Project and The Century Foundation, is to operationalize what high quality dual language immersion looks like for infants/toddlers, preschoolers, and students in Kindergarten through second grade. The brief provides an overview important context and core concepts foundational for this work, including a description of emergent bilinguals in the United States, a strength-based approaches to bilingualism, a historical account of bilingual education, and a description of how DLI education is part of a broader, equitable child serving system.