National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative Resource Archive
This Project of the Federal Child Care Bureau at ZERO TO THREE that is designed to support Child Care Development Fund administrators in their efforts to effect systems-wide improvements in infant and toddler child care.
In this Series
- Collaborations and Partnerships
- Early Care and Education Systems Building
- Early Learning Guidelines
- Family, Friend and Neighbor Child Care
- Infant and Toddler Specialist Networks
- Professional Development
- Consultants in Child Care Settings
- Core Knowledge and Competencies
- Infant and Toddler Credentials
- Licensing & Regulations
- Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
Collaborations and Partnerships
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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 wh…
Early Care and Education Systems Building
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Early Care and Education Systems that Support Quality Care for Babies and Toddlers: Key Elements
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…
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Strategic Planning for Child Care Programs Tool Kit
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.
Early Learning Guidelines
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Infant and Toddler Early Learning Guidelines Factsheet
This factsheet documents the ways that states and territories represent infants and toddlers in their Early Learning Guidelines.
Family, Friend and Neighbor Child Care
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Supporting Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care Strategic Planning Tool Kit
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…
Infant and Toddler Specialist Networks
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Developing a Statewide Network of Infant and Toddler Specialists
This technical assistance manual for states and territories describes the process of developing and implementing an Infant Toddler Specialist Network using six state examples.
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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 …
Professional Development
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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.
Consultants in Child Care Settings
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Coordinating Child Care Consultants
This paper provides a framework and practical suggestions for coordinating and educating child care consultants from multiple disciplines to improve consultants’ efficiency.
Core Knowledge and Competencies
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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 …
Infant and Toddler Credentials
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Infant and Toddler Credential Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides an overview and describes the components and requirements of states’ infant/toddler credentials.
Licensing & Regulations
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State Child Care Licensing Fact Sheet
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…
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
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Reviewing the Inclusion of Infant and Toddler Quality Indicators Through QRIS
This table summarizes state examples of inclusion of infant/toddler quality indicators in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems.
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How States Include Infant and Toddler Quality Indicators using QRIS
This factsheet provides an overview of infant/toddler quality indicators in states’ Quality Rating and Improvement Systems.
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Including Infants and Toddlers in 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…
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Designing Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Inclusive of Infants and Toddlers
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.