What is a Prenatal to 3 System? NCIT Capacity Building Hub

Archived Meeting Resources April 1, 2019

This slide deck supports the NCIT Capacity Building Hub Webinar What is a Prenatal to Three System? Among the topics covered are trends in state action to support infants and toddlers, creating an intentional process to increase equity, information about funding streams to support PN-3 work, and strategies for using data to increase equity.

Systems Alignment and Integration Through the Lens of Financing

Archived Meeting Resources October 29, 2018

This slide deck, from BUILD’s 2018 Meeting, Making the Most of It – Birth to Five Preschool Development Grant Meeting, offers a look at systems alignment and integration through the lens of financing. The presentation argues that taking a deep look at how you are financing your systems and how funding streams do and do not work together to fund the level of quality you want must be a primary component of a state’s needs assessment and strategic plan.

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.

Beyond Centers and Preschools: Increasing Quality and Supporting Children and Families Across the Continuum of Early Learning Settings

Slide Deck July 16, 2018

In this presentation from the 2018 BUILD QRIS National Meeting, leaders from three California communities representing Quality Counts California discuss their approaches to quality improvement.

Help Me Grow and QRIS: A CrossSystems Approach to Strengthening Early Learning through Early Detection, Referral, and Linkage to Services

Archived Meeting Resources July 16, 2018

This PowerPoint Presentation from the 2018 QRIS conference covers QRIS as a framework for system building, Help Me Grow as an initiative in QRIS, and implementation experiences from Orange County California and Vermont.

Bright Spot: Hmong Early Childhood Coalition

Video August 17, 2022

This video highlights Hmong Early Childhood Coalition in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hmong Early Childhood Coalition (HECC) is a grassroots, community-based organization dedicated to sharing research and evidence-based practices on early learning. HECC partners with families and community agencies in providing education and advocacy to optimize early learning for Hmong children.

Bright Spot: West African Community Council

Video August 17, 2022

This video highlights West African Community Council in Seattle, Washington. The West African Community Council provides a variety of early education and child development services, immigration legal support, and other critical support services built on the foundation of unity, equity, and family.

Reducing Disparities for Latino Children and Families: A National Latino Infant Policy Agenda Provides Solutions

Blog April 10, 2024

BUILD believes that to effectively meet the needs of young children and their families, we must recognize existing disparities, including opportunity and achievement gaps. Therefore, we see the urgent need to support policy solutions to better serve Latino infants, toddlers, and families.

Breaking the Cycle: How Economic Supports Strengthen Families and Break Down Barriers-Webinar Resources

Video March 11, 2025

This recording and slide deck are from the second webinar in the Whole Child, Whole Families, Whole System Webinar Series.

Equity Leaders Action Network

Page April 1, 2021

The BUILD Initiative’s Equity Leaders Action Network (ELAN) is a leadership program funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Ballmer Group. The ELAN was created to address four challenges in early childhood programs, entities, and organizations: racism, fragmentation, lack of beneficiary voice, and absence of policy leadership intentionally committed to racial equity.