The expansion of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds provides an opportunity to invest in a multi-pronged strategy that supports the teachers of our youngest children. This blog post looks at the issues involved in supporting the infant-toddler workforce and offers seven recommendations for moving forward.
States now have a tremendous opportunity to improve their child care assistance policies and make them work better for infants and toddlers and their families, thanks to the historic increase in funding for the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) starting in FY 2018. This blog post outlines strategies for improving state child care subsidy systems.
This research-to-practice brief highlights findings from Child Trends’ study of first-time parents
of young children (under age 3) and their knowledge about parenting and child development.
The resource below provides additional information about the grants and compares them to the similar, yet unrelated federal “Preschool Development Grant” (Legacy PDG) created during the Obama administration as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The brief explores why Head Start and QRIS integration is
meaningful, some emerging issues related to integration, and
the role of Head Start-QRIS integration in addressing equity.
This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS National Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all sessions, sponsors and conference events.
This program agenda provides an overview of the 2018 QRIS Meeting – Sparking Solutions and Sharing Systems Strategies. The document lists all of the sessions focused on infant and toddler care.
This presentation, from a BUILD QRIS Conference Preconference Session, shares how states have created a strong family engagement and cultural inclusion in their systems, the supports given to programs and providers to strengthen their family engagement and cultural inclusions practices and policies, and how family engagement standards can be used to strengthen equity and inclusion.
This slide deck is from the session titled How Do We Know What’s Working: Embracing Data & Assessment in StateExpulsion Prevention Strategies at the 2018 QRIS National Meeting. It reviews research on the drivers of expulsion and addresses the question: how do we know if we are reducing and preventing exclusionary practices?