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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Strategies to Guide the Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding for Early Care and Education
Report December 10, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic created a major upheaval to an already fragile early care and education system. As a result of the pandemic, families face additional challenges accessing care and child care providers are experiencing greater financial difficulties and struggling to keep their programs open. The pandemic has also exacerbated the racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequities within the child care system. As states strive to spend these funds in ways that support the child care industry and decrease these inequities, they must decide how to equitably distribute federal recovery funds to better support child care providers, as well as families that face greater barriers to accessing care due to systemic inequities. This report provides strategies to accomplish these goals.
Promoting Equitable Access to Quality Child Care
Report December 9, 2021
This report highlights the shortcomings in how quality child care is currently funded and provides examples of how states can chart a different path forward to ensure that increased investments positively affect all children and families.
Latinx Leader Spotlight: Pilar Torres
Blog December 3, 2021
This spotlight highlights Latinx early childhood leader Pilar Torres. Pilar is co-founder and president of LUNA Latinas Unidas which provides advocacy and professional and business development services to Latina early childhood professionals.