BUILD 2021 Meeting Archive

Archived Meeting Resources August 25, 2022

This resource includes the agenda, session descriptions, and resources shared during the BUILD 2021 National Conference.

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.

Centering Family Voice, Trusting the Community, and Building Latine Pride: Keys to Helping Children Learn

Blog February 14, 2022

Roxana Linares, executive director of Centro Tyrone Guzman, the largest and oldest multi-service Latine organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, contributed to this blog on the center’s insistence on embracing family and community voice.

Under 3 DC: Lessons in How Leading with Equity Creates Equity for Children and Families

Blog January 18, 2023

Under 3 DC Coalition members Sia Barbara Ferguson Kamara, LaDon Love, and Kim Perry contributed to this blog.

Child Welfare and Early Childhood: Cross-Systems Collaboration to Improve Outcomes for Young Children and Families: Using the Family First Prevention Services Act to implement Early Child Programs

Webinar May 18 2022

Approximately 40 percent of all children entering foster care are age five and under. Addressing the needs of these children and their families is critical to helping child welfare systems and early childhood systems achieve better outcomes.

Susan Savage, Ph.D., Research Director Child Care Resource Center

Page April 12, 2022

Expanding Supports for HBCC through Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five Grants

Webinar October 25 2022

The Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) grants are available to states and territories to support early childhood services for children birth to age five. Grant funds will support states in strategic planning, family engagement, quality improvement, workforce compensation and supports, and direct services for young children.

Writing A Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five Application That Will Continue State Progress Toward Greater System Efficiency, Higher Program Quality, and Improved Child Outcomes

Archived Meeting Resources October 1, 2018

This blog is an excerpt from a new Application Guide, Writing a Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Application that Will Continue State Progress toward Greater System Efficiency, Higher Program Quality, and Improved Child Outcomes.

Parent Leadership Blog – Sarah Zyburt

Blog October 20, 2021

Sarah Zyburt, mother of a seven-year-old child, is from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and now lives in Flint. She serves on the Michigan Parent Leaders in State Government workgroup, and Postpartum Support International, Michigan. Formerly, she served as a parent leader on her Home Visiting Local Leadership Group, the Great Start Collaborative for Genesee County and the Statewide Parent Leaders group for home visiting in Michigan. Sarah enjoys volunteering as a co-facilitator for a local postpartum support group for new moms as well as with the Parent Coalition in Flint and Genesee County.

Maximizing Federal Funding

Page April 1, 2021

BUILD is dedicated to helping leaders maximize federal funding opportunities that present states with their best chances of getting large infusions of funding to plan, accelerate, and/or sustain their early childhood systems-building work and to address racial and economic inequities.