Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Program: Laying the Foundation of Learning for Infants and Toddlers

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  How Are Early Learning Challenge Grant Recipients Targeting Infants and Toddlers?

  In December 2011, nine states were awarded four-year Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) grants. Here's how they will improve early learning and development programs.

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  Meeting the Challenge: Expansion of Home Visiting

  This article, released in June 2014, discusses how the most recent ELC grantees (Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont) are targeting infants and toddlers.

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  Meeting the Challenge: Engaging and Supporting Families

  This excerpt from "Meeting the Challenge: How the Newest Early Learning Challenge Grantees Can Meet the Needs of Infants and Toddlers" discusses grantees’ plans to engage and support families.

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  Making it Happen: Overcoming Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health

  This article is intended to illuminate the scientific evidence for I-ECMH policies; examine issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I…

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  An Infant-Toddler Agenda for the New Administration and Congress

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  Babies and the Budget: Opportunities for Action

  This advocacy tool is about the federal budget process: Why it’s important, how it works and where to seize opportunities to be involved.