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Creating Collaborative Partnerships Between Early Care & Education and Child Welfare
This brief provides practical partnership and collaboration strategies for early care and education and child welfare systems to meet the needs of and best serve families with infants and toddlers who are in or at risk of entering the child welfare system.
Child welfare and early childhood systems both focus on child safety and promote child and family well-being, including healthy child development and the formation of secure attachments. Together, we can begin to think about new ways to build support for infants, toddlers, and their families who come to the attention of the child welfare system at such a developmentally vital time.
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Infant and Toddler Specialist Network Factsheet
This factsheet provides background on Infant/Toddler Specialist Networks, a strategy that states and territories have implemented to improve the quality of child care and support healthy development …
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Keys to High-Quality Child Care for Infants and Toddlers
This factsheet focuses on core knowledge and competencies (CKC), which define the content and skills that adults working with infants and toddlers need to support individualized learning experiences …
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Professional Development for the Infant/Toddler Early Care and Education Workforce
This paper offers a framework and approaches to strengthen professional development opportunities for the infant/toddler workforce.