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A Place to Get Started: Innovation in State Infant and Toddler Policies
This policy brief developed by the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center describes eight strategies that policymakers can consider as they determine how to get started with developing infant-toddler policies, including examples of states currently implementing each of the strategies.
As public awareness of the importance of the earliest years grows, states are considering many possible ways to improve and better coordinate services for infants and toddlers and their families. Download the PDF to find our solutions.
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Governance and Leadership resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families
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Vermont - Building Bright Futures
Governance and Leadership resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families
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Virginia Office of Early Childhood Development
Governance and Leadership resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families
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Iowa's Quality Rating System (QRS), is a voluntary child care rating system for child development homes, licensed child care centers and preschools, and Child care programs that are operated by schoo…
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Rhode Island Paid Family Leave
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South Carolina MIECHV Program Aims to Alleviate Maternal Depression
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Michigan Finds Favorable Return on Investment for Home Visiting
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Wisconsin's Early Years Home Visitation Outcomes Project
The Early Years Home Visitation Outcomes Project of Wisconsin is a collaborative effort of service providers, funders, and evaluators that are using the same outcome framework to evaluate their effe…
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Washington Is Using Collaborative Planning and MIECHV Funds to Strengthen Home Visiting Strategies
Financing resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families
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Portland's Children's Investment Fund
Financing resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families
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Inspiring Innovation: Creative State Financing Structures for Infants and Toddlers
States can and should be investing in infants and toddlers as they work to build their birth-to-five systems. The four states highlighted in this policy brief exemplify such models of state investmen…
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Indiana Group Brings Attention to the Needs of Infants and Toddlers
Indiana's Happy Babies Brain Trust, a work group of public and private leaders, released an issue brief in November 2015 laying out recommendations for state action to support early childhood develop…
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Ohio's MIECHV Team Increases Program Visibility via Social Media
The team developed internal policies to guide their use of social media and define the target audience. They have also started using a monthly message calendar and posting procedures to organize thei…
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Family Engagement resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families
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Pennsylvania Takes on the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge
Family Engagement, Professional Devleopment, Regulations & Standards resource information on state policies and initiatives that impact infants, toddlers and their families
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Foundations to the Indiana Academic Standards for Young Children from Birth to Age Five
The Foundations to the Indiana Academic Standards for Young Children from Birth to Age Five are based on the latest national research and findings on child development.
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Putting Standards Into Practice: States' Use of Early Learning Guidelines
Learn how Early Learning Guidelines for infants and toddlers improve the quality of care and learning and develop a more qualified workforce.
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ZERO TO THREE Comments on Family Engagement
Comments of Patricia A. Cole, Director of Government Relations, and Claire Lerner, LCSW, Senior Parenting Strategist Submitted to the Interagency Policy Board on Early Learning July 22, 2015.
