An Orientation to Strengthening State and Territory Infant/Toddler Child Care System Policies and Practices: A Tool for Advancing Infant/Toddler Child Care Quality

This tool is designed to support state child care leaders and infant/toddler stakeholders as they assess, prioritize, plan, implement, and evaluate state policies in order to strengthen the quality of child care services infants, toddlers, and their families receive. The tool also aims to assist infant/toddler child care leaders as they create strategies, policies, protocols, and systems that:

identify relationship-based care as essential to quality infant/toddler child care engage, inform, and connect with families of infants and toddlers strengthen the quality and conditions of the infant/toddler workforce to help meet the unique needs of infants and toddlers in child care settings increase the supply, health and safety, sustainability, and quality of infant/toddler child care settings coordinate and integrate cross-sector systems that serve infants, toddlers, and their families