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Child Welfare Toolkit

Planning Tool January 1, 2014

This toolkit for early childhood professionals provides materials and tools to support collaboration with the child welfare system. It was funded by a federal grant from the Children's Bureau of the Administration of Children and Families.

Comprehensive Early Childhood System-Building: A Tool to Inform Discussions on Collaborative, Cross-Sector Planning

Planning Tool January 1, 2014

The purpose of this tool is to help state and community leaders improve the capacity of their early childhood system. Comprehensive early childhood systems require work across the Health, Early Learning and Development, and Family Support and Leadership sectors in order to achieve agreed-upon goals for thriving children and families. The tool is based on the framework and accompanying graphic developed by the Early Childhood System Working Group (ECSWG).

A Framework for Choosing A State-Level Early Childhood Governance System

Report January 1, 2013

This paper provides state policy leaders with a framework to consider and assess early childhood governance options. The paper examines current state practices for oversight of policies and programs related to children from birth to age five, exploring and analyzing the different governance approaches.

A Developmental Approach to Child Welfare Services for Infants and Toddlers

Website February 20, 2012

This resource is a companion piece to the report - A Call to Action on Behalf of Maltreated Infants and Toddlers. This comprehensive assessment tool helps states and counties examine ways to embed a quality, developmental approach to serving infants and toddlers in the child welfare system, as well as meet the new federal requirements for state child welfare plans.

A Call to Action on Behalf of Maltreated Infants and Toddlers

Policy Agenda January 1, 2011

A Call to Action represents the collective vision of leading child welfare and early childhood development organizations on the important steps that can and should be taken in policies, programs, and practices to address the needs of vulnerable infants and toddlers who come to the attention of the child welfare system. This policy agenda is intended to provide a starting point for policymakers at all levels of government in creating a response to the children’s special needs.

State Early Childhood Advisory Councils

Planning Tool May 1, 2008

The 2007 Head Start Reauthorization Bill mandated the creation of State Early Childhood Advisory Councils. This paper provides information on how to create and implement a successful council covering a wide range of topics including: the purpose of the councils, how to engage a diverse group of leaders as members, a model for thinking about council membership, staffing the councils, the role of national and local funders, the work of the councils, and a model for thinking about the right issues for a council to consider.

A Framework for Evaluating System Initiatives

Report August 1, 2007

This resource offers a framework for evaluating system initiatives that grew out of a BUILD symposium to assess the current state of the systems initiative evaluation field, identify lessons learned from previous systems initiative evaluation, and point to next steps and directions for evaluating systems initiatives. The evaluation framework helps clarify what complex systems initiatives are doing and aiming to accomplish, and thereby supports both theory of change development and evaluation planning.

Back to Basics: Essential Components of An American Early Care and Education System

Article September 1, 2001

Infrastructure and system are two words often neglected in discussions of early childhood policy. This paper is about these all-important and hidden “basics”. It offers a working definition of an early care and education system, and of its infrastructure. The paper unequivocally states that unless the system and the infrastructure are addressed and supported, there is little opportunity for achieving quality and the desired outcomes as a result of policy change.

Prenatal to Five Fiscal Modeling A Foundation for PN3 Efforts Planning Grantee Meeting

Slide Deck September 1, 0192

This presentation by Jeanna Capito, NCIT Capacity Building Hub and Simon Workman, Center for American Progress, looks at developing a fiscal agenda, components of fiscal modeling, and revenue and expense modeling. It also covers how Pritzker Children’s Initiative grantees can use the information and communicate the results of their fiscal modeling.