This brief offers state early childhood comprehensive system (ECCS) initiatives practical advice on conducting fiscal scans and creating early childhood budgets. Fiscal analysis and planning are essential for building a state or community fiscal infrastructure to support and sustain early...
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This guide outlines key steps and considerations for sustainability planning for High Growth Job Training Initiative and Community-Based Job Training grantees. The guide provides a checklist for each step of the sustainability process and provides links to additional sustainability resources....
This guide outlines a process for sustaining policy strategies and related activities, introduces approaches to sustainability, and demonstrates sustainability planning in action with real-life examples. It was designed to help coalitions, public health professionals, and other community...
This guide provides an overview of the development and application of program logic models. It was developed to provide nonprofits and community members with an orientation to the underlying principles and language of the program logic model so it can be effectively used in program planning,...
This guide outlines a five-step process for implementation: exploration, installation, initial implementation, full implementation, and expansion and scale-up. It concisely outlines specific steps for state leadership, intermediary organizations, and site-level teams for each stage of...
One of the key responsibilities of the...
This guide provides an overview of qualitative evaluation and practical guidance on the process. It was designed to support program administrators, managers, direct-service practitioners, and others in understating and using qualitative methods. The guide includes information on collecting,...
This guide describes the Most Significant Change technique for monitoring and evaluating social change initiatives. This technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation that involves the collection of significant change stories at the field level, and the systematic selection of...
This guide is one part of the SLDS Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS) Toolkit, which was originally created in 2011 to support states working to create ECIDS. The revised Toolkit now takes a broader focus beyond planning for an ECIDS to include implementation and continuous...
This brief provides a process and model for estimating the current cost of early care and education and the marginal cost of raising the quality of the system. The authors argue that estimating the cost of high-quality early care and education programs and systems involves looking critically at...