Click here to learn more about the Don’t Wait and Wonder Campaign, recently launched by the District of Columbia. The campaign aims to increase the number of children who receive early intervention services by encouraging anyone with concerns about a...
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Click here to learn more about this new series of factsheets for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, presenting infant and toddler data in the framework of good health, strong families, and positive early learning experiences.
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Click here for more information on the ABCD III publication and to dowload the brief from the National Academy for State Health Policy website.
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Critical Condition: How Federal and State Budget Cuts are Hurting the Health of Our Nation’s Mothers and Children shows how the combination of increased poverty, the number of Americans lacking health insurance, and previous budget cuts approaching nearly half a...
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As states continue efforts to create effective early childhood development systems for children and families, a new report published by the BUILD Initiative offers four essential components: early learning; health, mental health and nutrition; family support; and special needs/early intervention....
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Collaboration and Action to Improve Child Health Systems: Toolkit for State Leaders provides an approach to mapping the child health system in a state so state leaders can better envision the flow of services and funding that support access to...
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Highlights from Mr. Heckman’s full letter on the importance of investing in early childhood: Early childhood development deserves more resources, not less. Investments in quality early childhood development more than pay for themselves. We can gain money by investing early...
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This brief article by Judith Meyers addresses the importance of attending to health as part of a comprehensive approach to school success and the role funders can play in advocating for and supporting this work. Ms. Meyers’ article has also been...
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A new online tool shows the percentage of children under age six in each state who are experiencing serious risks to their development. The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has created the interactive Young Child Risk Calculator with...
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This Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) report examines efforts to build state-integrated early learning and development systems for children, across six themes: leadership; data usage; quality improvement; community partnerships; physical and behavioral integration; and children with multiple...