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These are resources for strategies and best practices to support staffing, resourcing, training, and retaining team members. Some of these resources can be tailored for states and territories.
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Leadership and Coordination, Professional Development
Group: Data & Information System Consultation Center
On December 6, 2023, the National Centers on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment and Early Childhood Quality Assurance hosted a webinar highlighting tips and resources to help school-age child care providers build or enhance their business practices and create sustainable Out-of-School Time programs…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Other, Professional Development, Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
Child care providers are often at the forefront of offering social-emotional learning and universal mental health support for school-age children. This tip sheet is a supplemental resource for direct service providers and offers simple strategies to successfully engage families, address youth…
Resource Type: Tip sheet
Topic/Subtopic: Professional Development, Promoting Children's Development, Afterschool and Summer Enrichment/Out-of-School Time, Supporting Children's Social-Emotional/Behavioral and Mental Health
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
The CCDF error rate methodology employs a case record review process to determine whether eligibility for child care subsidy was properly determined and /or any improper payments were made. Each state (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) completes the error rate review once every…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Leadership and Coordination, Professional Development
Group: Office Of Child Care
On September 21, 2023, the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment hosted the webinar, “Back to School—and Afterschool—Refresh: Updated Resources for System- and Program-Level Staff” to re-introduce the NCASE Resource Library, along with NCASE developed and recently updated toolkits.…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Informing Child Care Consumers, Other, Professional Development, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
On June 29, 2023, the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment hosted the webinar “Social-Emotional Learning and Mental Health Supports for Out-of-School Time: A Conversation on Strategies and Systems” to address the topic of building SEL and mental health capacity for Out-of-…
Resource Type: Webinar
Topic/Subtopic: Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Family Engagement and School Readiness, School-Age/Out-of-School Time Family Engagement, Professional Development, Core Knowledge and Competencies (CKC), School-Age/Out-of-School Time, Promoting Children's Development, Afterschool and Summer Enrichment/Out-of-School Time, Social-Emotional Learning, Supporting Children's Social-Emotional/Behavioral and Mental Health
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
This brief discusses the role peer support can play in enhancing home-based child care (HBCC) providers’ well-being and increasing providers’ equitable engagement in publicly funded systems, quality improvement, and leadership. This brief also examines the ways staffed family child care (FCC)…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Professional Development, Quality Improvement
Group: National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance
Out-of-School Time (OST) plays a critical role in supporting working families and in providing children and youth with meaningful relationships, enrichment activities, and social and emotional learning (SEL), which lead to positive developmental outcomes. Additionally, there is a greater-than-ever…
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic: Leadership and Coordination, Professional Development, Career Pathways, School-Age/Out-of-School Time Credential, Compensation, Benefits, and Access to Professional Development (PD), Recruiting and Retaining Providers, Training and Professional Development Requirements, School-Age/Out-of-School Time
Group: National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
General Resources on Systems BuildingThis section provides a set of general resources on systems building. Many systems building initiatives begin with or involve strategic planning. Please see the Strategic Plans chapter of the Early Childhood Systems Building Resource Guide for more information…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Equal Access to Child Care, Leadership and Coordination, Professional Development
Group: Not Applicable
Take the Temperature
Taking the temperature in a situation is about better understanding where the heat is high (conflict, pain, a lot of disequilibrium) or low (where people are bored or checked out). All of these signal the need for leadership.
Questions to Ask Yourself
What’s the temperature…
Resource Type: Page
Topic/Subtopic: Early Childhood Program Design and Management, Leadership and Coordination, CCDF Governance and Leadership, Professional Development
Group: Not Applicable