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

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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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  Tracking Services for Infants, Toddlers & Their Families

  To help you in your advocacy for infants and toddlers, this chart summarizes the primary federal programs currently focused on very young children and the roles of federal, state and local government…

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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.

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  Meeting the Challenge: Professional Development for the Infant-Toddler Workforce

  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 develop professional development op…

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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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  The Early Learning Challenge Grant Is Helping States Better Serve Infants and Toddlers

  Here's how grant recipients are improving the quality of care infants and toddlers receive while their parents are working, and increasing the likelihood that very young children are screened for hea…