Children's Bureau Discretionary ECCW Grant
Program: The
Early Childhood Collaborative, Connecticut Final Report The Early Childhood Collaborative & James Bell Associates, Inc. (2013) View Abstract Discusses the activities and accomplishments of a federally funded project designed to build upon and expand the partnership between the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and the Connecticut Office of Head Start with the goal of building local community partnerships that maximize enrollment and attendance of infants and young children ages birth to 5 years, especially foster children, into comprehensive, high - quality early care and education and mental health prog
Early Childhood Collaborative, Connecticut Final Report The
Early Childhood Collaborative & James Bell Associates, Inc. (2013) View Abstract Discusses the activities and accomplishments of a federally funded project designed to build upon and expand the partnership between the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and the Connecticut Office of Head Start with the goal of building local community partnerships that maximize enrollment and attendance of infants and young children ages birth to 5 years, especially foster children, into comprehensive, high - quality early care and education and mental health prog
Early Childhood Collaborative & James Bell Associates, Inc. (2013) View Abstract Discusses the activities and accomplishments of a federally funded project designed to build upon and expand the partnership between the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and the Connecticut Office of Head Start with the goal of building local community partnerships that maximize enrollment and attendance of infants and young children ages birth to 5 years, especially foster children,
into comprehensive, high -
quality early care and education and mental health prog
early care and
education and mental health
programs.
Purpose: To fund projects to build infrastructure capacity to support collaborative initiatives between child welfare and
early childhood systems to maximize enrollment, attendance, and supports of infants and young children who are in foster care
into comprehensive, high -
quality early care and
education programs.
It is important to put more money
into these
early education childhood programs, as studies show that children who attend high -
quality early education are more successful in school.