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Connecting with Families: Improving Access to Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Services

Report June 1, 2021

A series of issue briefs, funded by Perigee, outline opportunities to advance infant, early childhood, and parent mental health in Washington State. Informed by family, provider, community, and system leaders from across the state, these resources make the case for deepening the state's collective focus on supporting mental health and wellbeing during the earliest years. This brief highlights key findings from the Washington landscape regarding families' abilities to access the full spectrum of infant early childhood mental health (IECMH) supports that should be available from the IECMH system, from universal screening to engagement in comprehensive and effective IECMH treatment services.

Advancing Equity in Early Care and Education System with The American Rescue Plan Act

Report June 1, 2021

This policy agenda attends to critical levers to ensure equitable access, positive experiences, and outcomes that are not associated with demographic characteristics in learning systems for our youngest children and their families. The American Rescue Plan provides a unique opportunity to make tangible headway on this agenda. The report also reviews concrete ways to invest in ensuring equitable access, experiences, and outcomes and can be a tool to support states and tribes in building a pathway towards stronger, higher-quality, more equitable systems.

Making the Case: Why Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Matters

Report June 1, 2021

A series of issue briefs, funded by Perigee, outline opportunities to advance infant, early childhood, and parent mental health in Washington State. Informed by family, provider, community, and system leaders from across the state, these resources make the case for deepening the state's collective focus on supporting mental health and wellbeing during the earliest years. This brief introduces infant early childhood mental health and discusses why it is important.

Accelerating Progress for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health In Washington

Report June 1, 2021

The state of Washington is part of a national movement to ensure that a strong network of infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) services is available to young children and their families. This brief, the first in a series of issue briefs funded by Perigee, covers the steps Washington took to collect information and stakeholder input to develop a strategic plan for advancing infant and early childhood mental health. It also provides an overview of the other five briefs in the series.

Understanding the Cost of Quality Child Care in New Mexico: A Cost Estimation Model to Inform Subsidy Rate Setting

Report June 1, 2021

With support from the Pritzker Children's Initiative, Prenatal to Five Fiscal Strategies - through the NCIT Capacity Building Hub - worked with the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department and Growing Up New Mexico to conduct a cost study and develop a cost estimation model to inform subsidy rate setting. New Mexico, along with every other state, currently relies on the market-rate survey approach to set rates paid by public funding for child care subsidies under federal Child Care Development Block Grants. Under a market survey approach, child care rates paid by public funding are based on what parents can afford to pay for child care, not necessarily related to the actual cost of delivering quality care. This paper outlines the cost-estimation model that allows New Mexico’s early childhood leaders to better understand the actual cost of providing early care and education services in New Mexico.

Overview for America’s Counties: U.S. Treasury Interim Final Rule & Guidance for State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

Article May 24, 2021

From the National Association of Counties, this web article collects information on the interim final rule and guidance for the $362 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund, established under the American Rescue Plan Act. Released by the U.S. Department of Treasury in May 2021, the material includes a fact sheet and Frequently Asked Questions.

Six Opportunities to Advance Equity in the ARPA Child Care Stabilization Grant Guidance

Blog May 18, 2021

The grant guidance for the American Rescue Plan Act offers strategies for designing stabilization grant programs that can begin to address systemic inequities built into the child care industry over centuries and rooted in historic reliance on the undervalued work of Black, Latinx, and other women of color. This article, prepared by the Center for Law and Social Policy, offers are six important opportunities states should consider as they use ARPA funds to meet the field’s immediate relief needs.

Optimizing Distribution of American Rescue Plan Funds to Stabilize Child Care

Article May 17, 2021

This issue brief, prepared by The Center for American Progress, details how states can partner with community-based child care intermediary organizations to distribute the $24 billion in the child care relief and stabilization fund. The brief includes a table showing how much each state will receive in child care relief and stabilization funding as part of the total child care funding included in the American Rescue Plan.