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Collaboration With Early Childhood Programs
These organizations and websites offer information on ways child welfare and child abuse prevention programs work with early childhood programs to improve services to children and families, including State and local examples.
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Office of Head Start
Administration for Children and Families
Funds agencies that offer Head Start and Early Head Start programs, which provide comprehensive child development services to economically disadvantaged children and families, with a focus on school readiness and parent involvement.
ChildCare.gov
Administration for Children and Families
Provides information to parents, providers, researchers, and policymakers on relevant child care issues, including abuse and neglect, child development, choosing and paying for child care, operating a child care business, and more.
Strengthening Families Through Early Care and Education
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Offers information about a network of national, State, and local organizations implementing the Strengthening Families model, an initiative to build protective factors in children and families through early care and education programs, child welfare systems, and home-based child care providers. The website includes a training marketplace, electronic library, discussion forum, and more.
ZERO TO THREE
Informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. The website offers training and leadership opportunities, with resources on topics related to child health and development.
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Addressing Missed Opportunities for Early Childhood Mental Health Intervention: Current Knowledge and Policy Implications (PDF - 167 KB)
Task Force on Early Mental Health Intervention (2003)
Recommends ways to improve mental health service delivery in early childhood, including integrating child-centered mental health services into all systems that serve children and youth, and enhancing a public-private health infrastructure to support these efforts.
Birth to Five Policy Alliance
Promotes policy ideas that support families in their parenting role and ensure positive early childhood development for at-risk children and their families. Website offers information on State-by-State early childhood legislation and policies, links to news and research, and provides an online discussion forum.
Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action
Aber, Bishop-Josef, Jones, McLearn, & Phillips (2006)
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Focuses on the influence of social policy on child development and the significant perspective that child development professionals bring to policy formation. Discusses programs to ensure good beginnings for all children as well as programs for at-risk children and families.
Early Childhood System Building Tool: A Framework for the Role of Title V Maternal and Child Health Programs in Early Childhood Systems (PDF - 828 KB)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Women's and Children's Health Policy Center (2004)
Helps strengthen the public health sector's involvement in early childhood and school readiness initiatives, providing a framework and promoting a common language for collaborative system-building efforts.
Exceptional Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early Childhood Development (PDF - 276 KB)
Economic Policy Institute (2004)
Proposes the likely benefits to future government budgets, the economy, and crime, if investments were made in a high-quality, large-scale early childhood development program. Estimates that a nationwide program could net government budget savings of $61 billion within 25 years.
Key Principles in Providing Integrated Behavioral Health Services for Young Children and Their Families: The Starting Early Starting Smart Experience (PDF - 4040 KB)
Starting Early Starting Smart Steering Committee (2001)
Describes a national, multi-site program that uses pediatric health care and early childhood educational settings to provide coordinated, easily accessible behavioral health services to families with young children in order to improve child and family outcomes.
Making Children a National Priority: A Framework for Community Action (PDF - 341 KB)
Child Welfare League of America (2003)
Outlines the five universal needs of children and describes model programs that promote partnerships and networks of caring relationships to nurture children and their families.
Pre-K Now
Pew Center on the States
Provides assistance to advocates and other leaders working to secure policy changes and public funds that will improve the availability and quality of State-funded pre-k programs.
Protecting the Youngest: The Role of Early Care and Education in Preventing and Responding to Child Maltreatment (PDF - 239 KB)
National Conference of State Legislatures (2007)
Discusses policy options for States to consider to support early care and education programs that would protect young children and prevent abuse and neglect.
Reasons and Strategies for Strengthening Childhood Development Services in the Healthcare System (PDF - 248 KB)
VanLandeghem, Curtis, & Abrams (2002)
Provides a framework for the provision of child development services in the health-care system, offers strategies for strengthening child development services, and identifies examples of promising practices at the State, community, and primary care level.
The Role of Professional Child Care Providers in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect
This manual provides information on the roles and responsibilities of child care providers in preventing, recognizing, and reporting child abuse and neglect within and outside early childhood programs. It also presents an overview of prevention efforts, reporting laws, caring for maltreated children, and ways to support parents and professionals who work with families.
Safe Start Center
Supports an initiative to broaden the knowledge of and promote community investment in evidence-based strategies for reducing children's exposure to violence.
Social and Emotional Health in Early Childhood: Building Bridges Between Services and Systems
Perry, Kaufmann, & Knitzer (2007)
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Recommends effective policies and programs to improve coordination among health, mental health, education, and social services and systems to improve social-emotional and behavioral outcomes for young children and their families.
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State and local examples
Helping Families Shine: Evaluation of the Family and Community Partnership Palm Beach County, Florida
Lyons & Winje (2007)
Outlines an initiative that has a goal of strengthening the functions and collaborations among programs that provide prevention and early intervention services.
Sustaining Community Partnerships on Behalf of Young Children and Families
Bremond, Midler, & Burger
Zero to Three, 27(2), 2006
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Describes a prevention and early intervention program for children at high risk for abuse and neglect in Alameda County, California, that enhanced collaboration among community-based social services organizations to facilitate systems change.
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