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Parent Engagement and Leadership Assessment Guide and Toolkit: Comprehensive Report

March 2019

This resource, based on the Parent Engagement and Leadership Assessment Guide, is designed to help agencies, systems, and collaboratives working with young children and their families to chart a course toward an expanded approach to family engagement.

Supplementary resources: 

(9 pp)

 

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, EC-LINC
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Successful Strategies: How Kent County Created New Funds for Early Childhood

March 2019

On November 6, 2018, the residents of Kent County, MI voted to pass a ballot initiative that created new dedicated, sustainable funding for early childhood programs through a millage (property tax). This brief details the work that went into accomplishing such a momentous milestone.

View an accompanying video that further details this important work.

(11 pp)

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers
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Parent and Family Engagement: A Community Action Brief

March 2019

This brief shares core principles that promote effective strategies to engage and partner with parents of young children. 

(8 pp)

 

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers
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Using Data to Advance Outcomes for Young Children & Families: A Community Action Brief

March 2019

The data brief presents three examples of communities using their data to answer fundamental questions about how best to support the needs of young children and their families. 

(8 pp)

 

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers
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Brief

Equity in Early Childhood Systems: A Community Action Brief

March 2019

This brief emphasizes 10 domains where leaders can have an impact on making sure all families with young children have access to high-quality programs and services. 

(8 pp)

Tags: Racial Equity & Justice, Young Children & Their Families, National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers
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Webinar

Strengthening Families Webinar: Draft Strategic Plan

March 2019

This webinar engaged participants in reviewing and weighing in on a new strategic plan that is being developed for the Strengthening Families initiative. See how the plan is taking shape so far, and share your thoughts on what should be included and where you think we (CSSP and national, state, and local partners) should focus our energy in the coming years to ensure that more families have opportunities to build their protective factors. Even if you missed the webinar, you can still respond to the survey before April 12, 2019 at: https://goo.gl/forms/XL1VxO9Q9Gji3Feg1.

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, Strengthening Families
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Walking the Talk: Race Equity and Parent Leadership

March 2019

Members of EC-LINC’s Parent Leader Network Steering Committee spoke to local funders, city and county leaders, and others affiliated with the National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers (NCIT) about the Manifesto for Race Equity and Parent Leadership in Early Childhood Systems. They also answered questions about what participants and their agencies/organizations could do better to facilitate authentic and sustained parent engagement, such as proper compensation, involvement of parents in co-design of activities and events, parent inclusion on decision-making teams, and more.

Download the PowerPoint presentation that accompanies this event.

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, EC-LINC, National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers
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Parent Engagement and Leadership Assessment Guide and Toolkit: Full Report

March 2019

This resource is designed to help agencies, systems, and collaboratives working with young children and their families to chart a course toward an expanded approach to family engagement.

Supplementary resources: 

(30 pp)

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, EC-LINC
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Webinar

Strengthening Families Webinar: Preventing Child Neglect by Building Protective Factors

February 2019

This webinar included segments from one of the training sequences from the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds' new four-part training, “Let’s Talk About . . . Preventing Child Neglect.” Participants were also introduced to the remaining three training sequences in the series and other valuable resources related to preventing child neglect. 

Tags: Child Welfare, Young Children & Their Families, Strengthening Families
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Strengthening Families Webinar: Measuring the Performance of Local Early Childhood Systems

February 2019

This webinar explores the new Early Childhood System Performance Assessment Toolkit from the Center for the Study of Social Policy, which contains guidance and tools to measure various aspects of how well your local early childhood system is working to improve the reach of child and family services, coordination among those services, commitment of the community to early childhood issues, and equity and parent leadership.

Tags: Young Children & Their Families, Strengthening Families
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