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Equity in Action: Tips for School-Age Child Care Providers

Creating a safe, welcoming space where children learn and thrive, and where families feel supported, is a hallmark of high-quality school-age child care. This resource, Equity in Action: Tips for School-Age Child Care Providers, is designed to build the capacity of school-age child care...

Resource Type: Tip sheet

Topic/Subtopic Promoting Children's Development, Quality Improvement

Equity in Action: Tips for Parents and Caregivers

As parents and caregivers support their children in their growth and development, they have many opportunities for talking about and modeling kindness and inclusion. This tip sheet, Equity in Action: Tips for Parents and Caregivers, encourages parents and caregivers to reflect on the things they...

Resource Type: Tip sheet

Topic/Subtopic Family Engagement and Consumer Education, Protecting Children's Health and Safety

NCASE Supporting Out-of-School Time through the American Rescue Plan Act

On September 15, 2021, the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment...

Resource Type: Webinar

Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Stabilization Grants

Equity Considerations for the Child Care Licensing System

Given the prominent role of the child care licensing system, it is important to determine how the licensing system can be more equitable on behalf of children and families through its work with child care providers. It is also important to determine how licensing can partner with...

Resource Type: Brief

Topic/Subtopic Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Licensing Administration, Licensing Policies/Structure of Regulatory Agencies

FY 2021 Program Integrity Webinar #3: Internal Controls to Support CCDF Administration

In the third webinar of our fiscal year 2021 program integrity quarterly series, we discussed what internal controls are and why they are so important, provided examples of how internal controls support fiscal, policy, and process decisions for CCDF, and introduced some of the tools that...

Resource Type: Webinar

Topic/Subtopic Program Integrity and Accountability, CCDF Prevention and Detection of Fraud, Policy, Procedures, and Systems, Strengthening Internal Controls, CCDF Program Integrity, Policy, Procedures, and Systems, Prevention and Reduction of Errors

Introduction to the Relationship-Based Care Program Practices

Research tells us that early relationships are key to healthy brain development. These relationships lay the foundation for all future learning and are at the core of quality care for infants and toddlers in group care settings (Sosinsky et al., 2016). The stability and quality of a baby’s...