Policy Agenda: North Carolina

Policy Agenda October 1, 2018

This resource details North Carolina's early childhood policy agenda for 2020.

New Jersey’s Early Childhood Integrated Data System: Slide Deck

Fact Sheet October 1, 2018

This slide deck, from BUILD’s 2018 Meeting, Making the Most of It – Birth to Five Preschool Development Grant Meeting, outlines New Jersey’s Early Childhood Integrated Data System, NJ-EASEL.

The Proposed Public Charge Rule & Young Children

Policy Agenda October 1, 2018

This Q&A provides an overview of the proposed public charge provisions and other important information specifically for the early childhood community.

NCASE Supports and Services

Archived Meeting Resources October 1, 2018

This document describes the overall objectives, services, and long-term outcomes of the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE). NCASE provides training and technical assistance to support state, territory, and tribal Child Care and Development Fund lead agencies and their networks.

Hope Starts Here: Detroit’s Early Childhood Partnership

Archived Meeting Resources October 1, 2018

This slide deck, from BUILD’s 2018 Meeting, Making the Most of It – Birth to Five Preschool Development Grant Meeting, outlines Detroit’s early childhood partnership, Hope Starts Here. The initiative was a community engagement and strategic planning process designed to create a vision and action plan to make Detroit an equitable, world-class city for their youngest residents and their families.

Application Nuts and Bolts

Archived Meeting Resources October 1, 2018

This slide deck, from BUILD’s 2018 Meeting, Making the Most of It – Birth to Five Preschool Development Grant Meeting, outlines nuts and bolts information for providing a systems building approach to completing federal grant applications with state examples and experiences.

FAQ

Article October 1, 2018

Why I Chose Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) Care

Blog October 1, 2018

In this blog on the Child Care Aware website, an early care and education leader goes from pondering the possibility of helping her own home-based care provider gain knowledge of early childhood education strategies to facilitating a conversation with national experts on the issues that impact this segment of the child care workforce.

The Preschool Development Grant BirthFive (PDG B5) Offers a New Opportunity to Support Babies and Toddlers: A Tool to Intentionally Include Infants and Toddlers in PDG B5

Article September 1, 2018

This document explains how the PDG B-5 can be used to address early childhood care and education system challenges impacting infants and toddlers and offers recommendations for specific strategies that states can include in PDG B-5 applications to improve outcomes for babies.

Understanding and Measuring Program Engagement in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

Archived Meeting Resources September 1, 2018

The purpose of this brief is to describe approaches to measuring QRIS program engagement that can be used by QRIS administrators and other stakeholders to distinguish and address different levels of QRIS involvement among ECE programs.