State-Local Team Approaches to Prenatal-to-Three Services
✓ Consider new ways to work together with the goal of advancing PN-3 services for infants, toddlers, and their parents. ✓ Think about ways to deepen state-local connections that may already exist for a well-coordinated PN-3 statewide policy agenda. ✓ Learn how actual robust local-state partnerships underway are working to achieve PN-3 goals and dismantle inequities for children and families.
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Family Child Care in Crisis: Providers Discuss What Comes after Pandemic Funding Ends
Blog September 28, 2023
On September 30, 2023, federal funding made available to child care providers during the pandemic will expire. In this blog, providers discuss the impact.
Workforce Compensation
Report August 29, 2023
A robust early childhood care and education workforce is at the heart of any solution to stabilize the child care sector, and adequate compensation is pivotal to that end. That reality comes through in the PDG B-5 grant applications; many states demonstrate a keen focus on supporting workforce compensation. This brief explores and synthesizes the strategies to increase compensation that states proposed in their PDG B-5 grant applications.
Supporting Multilingual Learners
Report August 17, 2023
As the number of young multilingual learners— children who speak language(s) other than English—increases throughout the country, the focus on supporting language development, rooted in diverse cultural, linguistic, and developmentally appropriate practices, becomes a critical component of the early childhood care and education (ECCE) system.