National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative Resource Archive

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 wh…

This paper presents an overview of key early care and education system elements and the characteristics that reflect how such a system can offer quality child care to infants, toddlers, and their fam…

This tool kit provides resources, tools, and process suggestions to assist states and territories with strategic planning to support quality child care for infants and toddlers.

This factsheet documents the ways that states and territories represent infants and toddlers in their Early Learning Guidelines.

This tool kit offers resources, tools, and process suggestions to assist states and territories with strategic planning to support Family, Friend, and Neighbor quality child care for infants and todd…

This technical assistance manual for states and territories describes the process of developing and implementing an Infant Toddler Specialist Network using six state examples.

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 …

This paper offers a framework and approaches to strengthen professional development opportunities for the infant/toddler workforce.

This paper provides a framework and practical suggestions for coordinating and educating child care consultants from multiple disciplines to improve consultants’ efficiency.

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 …

This fact sheet provides an overview and describes the components and requirements of states’ infant/toddler credentials.

This fact sheet provides an overview of standards for promoting health in child care from the report "Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards for Preventing Childhoo…

This table summarizes state examples of inclusion of infant/toddler quality indicators in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems.

This factsheet provides an overview of infant/toddler quality indicators in states’ Quality Rating and Improvement Systems.

This white paper highlights key discussion points and summarizes recommendations that emerged from a Child Care Bureau QRIS Issues Meeting, which was convened in May 2008, on including infants and to…

This paper offers suggestions for the inclusion of quality indicators for infants and toddlers within Quality Rating and Improvement Systems being implemented in states, tribes, and territories.