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Child Care Stabilization Grants Best Practice Brief: Leveraging Child Care Consumer Education Websites

This brief is designed to help Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Lead Agencies...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Stabilization Grants
Best Practice Brief: Using a Public Awareness Campaign

Using a public awareness campaign can sharpen your efforts to share information about the...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Stabilization Grants
Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences: Strategies for the Out-of-School Time Field

This practice brief developed by the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE), is a follow up to the recent research brief, “...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Promoting Children's Development, Afterschool and Summer Enrichment/Out-of-School Time, Social-Emotional Learning
The Importance of Infant–Early Childhood Mental Health in Training and Technical Assistance

The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Final Rule (CCDF, 2016) provides incentive and opportunity to enhance and expand statewide quality activities to support infant–early childhood mental health (I–ECMH).
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Promoting Children's Development, Professional Development, Core Knowledge and Competencies (CKC), Professional Development Systems
Child Care Health Consultation: Investing in Health and Early Learning Systems to Improve Child Outcomes

The development or expansion of a network of child care health consultants (CCHC) is one strategy states, territories, and tribes can use to support the health, safety, and well-being of children in child care. This brief provides an overview of the impact of CCHC's on children's health,...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Supporting Health and Wellness
Investing in the Future: State Supports for Infants and Toddlers

This brief highlights the 23 renewal Grantees’ plans for supporting the development of infants and toddlers, and describes the changes that eight of the states had to make to their infant/toddler initiatives due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, PDG Program Design, PDG Program Design, Promoting Children's Development, Infant and Toddler Development and Care
CCDF Health and Safety Requirements Brief #1: Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases

The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014 and the...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, Protecting Children's Health and Safety, Health and Safety Requirements and Standards, Supporting Health and Wellness
Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Research-Informed Strategy for Supporting High-Quality Family Child Care

This brief includes a description of family child care (FCC) networks. It also outlines a well-informed strategy for supporting high-quality family child care:

  • Addresses the support a staff FCC network can provide
  • Outlines the essential elements of an effective network...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), ARP Act Supplemental Funding, Quality Improvement, Provider Supports for Quality Improvement
Navigating Child Care Relief Funding Processes

This brief is for Lead Agencies and provides considerations and tips for working with key decisionmakers at the legislative, executive, or Tribal leadership levels for American Rescue Plan Act budget authorization. It also provides guidance for navigating the agency planning, ...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act), Stabilization Grants
Refining CCDF Disaster Plans Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

This discussion brief can support CCDF Lead Agencies’ after action reviews of their responses to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and issues being addressed during recovery. Many of the strategies and approaches used during the pandemic may also be appropriate for other more localized...
Resource Type: Brief
Topic/Subtopic COVID-19, Leadership and Coordination