The website I have
been exploring is NAEYC (http://www.naeyc.org) .One area that I have been
exploring on the website is the Public Policy area. The Public Policy area
addresses different categories such as an overview, Take Action Now, Strong
Start for Children, Federal Developments, State Trends, Early Childhood
Workforce System Initiatives, Effective Advocacy Resources, and Government
Links. The area, Strong Start for Children, highlights NAEYC involvement with
the government to promote high quality early childhood education for all. The
coalition supports a significant expansion of high-quality learning
opportunities for children birth to five to achieve better education, health,
social and economic outcomes for all. In addition, I learned a great deal about
the Strong Start initiative. The initiative has three parts:
1. Provides grants to states to accelerate their work,
expanding access and improving quality for prekindergarten programs
2. Provides grants to create Early Head Start-child care
partnerships to raise the quality of child care and expand access for infants
and toddlers in programs meeting Early Head Start standards
3. Calls for expanded voluntary support for families
through home visiting that promotes positive parent-child interaction, healthy
child development and family self-sufficiency.
The website provides
a link for the Early Childhood Development, an Office of the Administration for
Children and Families, (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ecd)
to explore the initiative further. On this website you can learn about Head
Start and the efforts to expand the program as well as the Race to the Top initiatives
for states.
Tanya,
ReplyDeleteYou talked about Head Start and Early Start. About 17 years ago our county was a pilot county for Early Start. I was hired as a lead teacher in a toddler program and it truly was a great program. Most of the parents were young teenagers that needed to get their GED. They would drop off their toddler and then walk down the hall for a 4 hour GED class. Many graduated with their GED and moved on to get a job. They were involved with free parenting classes and had great resources to help them deal with any issues that occurred. I do wish there were more programs like early start out there. Thanks for sharing, Tisha
Tanya,
ReplyDeletePositive outcomes for vulnerable children and families are maximized when child welfare agencies operate with well defined and well articulated policies that support agency strategic goals and objectives. These are used to influence federal state and or local legislative and regulatory actions and to drive decisions regarding budget priorities and other executive actions.
Tanya,
ReplyDeleteI utilize this website daily. In the last couple of weeks I have been gathering information on NAEYC under the link High scope. I am currently going through the process to come accrediated for NAC. I have never looked at the public policy link but do think there are a lot of great information. My school partners with the local head start programs. I think parents also need to utilize this website. I think that is wonderful that young parents can drop off their children and than go down the hall and take classes to get their GED.