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Michigan Parent Leadership

Case Study October 6, 2021

This case study describes Michigan’s parent leadership program model, one that was 30 years in the making. The model, a concept tested over the last eight years, can be replicated within any early childhood system or program.

Investing in Farm to Early Care and Education: A Funders’ Guide to Nourishing Children, Families and Communities

Article October 1, 2021

This guide is for funders and all who seek to support farm to early care and education programs that nourish children, families and communities. It overviews farm to early care and education and its benefits, describes challenges within our food and learning systems that farm to early care and education seeks to solve, spotlights community-based initiatives, and outlines how funders can play a role in supporting communities by expanding farm to early care and education.

Relationship-Based Supports for Home-Based Child Care: What to Embrace and What to Avoid

Blog September 29, 2021

This blog explores the hallmarks of effective relationship-based supports for family child care educators. It is written with input from Juliet Bromer, Erikson Institute; Danielle Caldwell, a home-based child care educator in North Carolina; and Colette Masty, a Michigan quality support provider with Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care and license-exempt providers.

Relationship-Based Support for Home-Based Child Care Assessment Tool

Website September 29, 2021

The Relationship-Based Support to Home-Based Child Care assessment tool (RBS-HBCC) examines the quality of relationships and interactions between home-based child-care providers and staff specialists who support these providers at networks and other organizations. The tool is based on a conceptual model that hypothesizes high-quality support as including relationship-based, responsive approaches to meeting the needs of providers as well as the developmental needs of children in care and the work needs of families.

Home-Based Child Care: Centering Authentic HBCC Educator Voices in ECE Systems

Archived Webinar September 28, 2021

During this webinar, viewers learned how states, NAFCC, family child care associations, and provider-led community-based networks are addressing racial and linguistic inequities in early care and education systems by offering authentic, responsive, and relevant supports to marginalized family child care educators. Panelists shared their experience in re-envisioning, implementing, and sustaining ECE systems change with family child care educators at the center.

Home-Based Child Care: Centering Authentic HBCC Educator Voices in ECE Systems

Slide Deck September 28, 2021

This resource is a slide deck from the webinar, Home-Based Child Care: Centering Authentic HBCC Educator Voices in ECE Systems, investigates how states, NAFCC, family child care associations, and provider-led community-based networks are addressing racial and linguistic inequities in early care and education systems by offering authentic, responsive, and relevant supports to marginalized family child care educators.

The Dance of Balancing Local and State Partners in North Carolina

Podcast September 28, 2021

Host Karen Ponder dives into the first formal statewide early childhood system in the nation: North Carolina’s Smart Start, which she herself managed for its first 15 years. She speaks with Amy Cubbage, president of the North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC), and Gayle Headen, executive director of Wake County Smart Start.

NCIT Hub State Spotlight: Pennsylvania

Article September 22, 2021

Through an interview with Kari King, and Maggie Livelsberger of the Pennsylvania Partnership for Children, this document highlights the PN-3 work underway in Pennsylvania.