Supporting the First 1,000 Days of A Child’s Life: An Anti-Racist Blueprint for Early Childhood and Well-being and Child Welfare Prevention

Part of the Resource Collection: Child Welfare and Early Childhood: Cross-Systems Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Young Children and Their Families Report

By: Alexandra Citrin, Siri Anderson, Valery Martinez, Ngozi Lawal, Shadi Houshyar, The Genter for the Study of Social Policy February 1, 2021

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To support the health and well-being of children and families of color, we must implement comprehensive strategies that address systemic and institutional racism. This report offers a blueprint for creating equity-centered, anti-racist policies that support the health and well-being of children and families of color.

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Home-Based Child Care: Embedding Wellness in HBCC Systems through Strengthening HBCC Networks: An Evidence-Based Framework for High Quality (Benchmarks)

Archived Webinar September 21, 2023

This recording and slide deck are from the September 19, 2023 Home-Based Child Care Webinar.

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.