Sentences with phrase «local early childhood initiatives»

These stands and their updates have been the foundation of Head Start, and they have served as a model for state and local early childhood initiatives, including the state of Tennessee's pre-K program.

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Last August, the federal Administration for Children, Youth, and Families commissioned a study of the degree to which state early - childhood - education initiatives work in concert with local Head Start programs.

In these roles she oversees professional learning, conducts research, and consults for local and state initiatives on the Early Childhood Work Environment Survey (ECWES), the Program Administration Scale (PAS), the Business Administration for Family Child Care (BAS) and leadership topics in early care and educaEarly Childhood Work Environment Survey (ECWES), the Program Administration Scale (PAS), the Business Administration for Family Child Care (BAS) and leadership topics in early care and educaearly care and education.

The states that have played a significant role in shaping and implementing this federal initiative have also built bridges between early childhood systems at the state and local levels.

Transforming Systems for Parental Depression and Early Childhood Developmental Delays: Findings and Lessons Learned From the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children Initiative (PDF - 1,567 KB) Schultz, Reynolds, Sontag - Padilla, Lovejoy, Firth, & Pincus (2013) RAND Corporation Discusses the findings of an evaluation of the Helping Families Raise Healthy Children initiative, the fourth phase of the Allegheny County Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative's efforts to implement changes in the local system of maternal and child health care.

The Nuts and Bolts of Building Early Childhood Systems through State / Local Initiatives details the work done by states to develop state / community - based approaches to early childhood systems building effEarly Childhood Systems through State / Local Initiatives details the work done by states to develop state / community - based approaches to early childhood systems buildingChildhood Systems through State / Local Initiatives details the work done by states to develop state / community - based approaches to early childhood systems building effearly childhood systems buildingchildhood systems building efforts.

Some states are trying to better coordinate governance by: a) combining agencies / divisions into a new state early childhood agency; b) establishing state - level cross-agency children's cabinets, commissions, or councils to plan, coordinate, and integrate programs and services; c) creating public - private partnerships in which state government partners with private entities to fund early childhood initiatives; and d) establishing local early childhood governance structures.

The initiative began in 1993 and includes 75 nonprofit agencies that assess local needs and direct early childhood investments in the state's counties.