Tagged With "First 5"

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Federal Policies Can Address the Impact of Structural Racism on Black Families' Access to Early Care and Education [childtrends.org]

Natalie Audage · 3/8/2112:44 PM

By Chrishana M. Lloyd, Julianna Carlson, and Marta Alvira-Hammond, Child Trends, March 5, 2021 As we wrote in the first brief of this series, Black Americans’ social standing in the United States has been shaped by a long history of racism in laws, policies, and practices that has built racist institutions and created and exacerbated inequality. This inequality is built into the infrastructure of our country and has formed the foundation for structural racism—a system that privileges White...

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Findings from the First5 CA Home Visiting Workforce Study_ChildTrends_March2021 (42-pages).pdf

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 3/15/217:58 AM

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"I'll be here again next week." - Because if one person stays, that will be enough.

Anika Grover · 4/2/216:27 PM

When a child welcomes you into their life, honor that. Hold that in the highest regard because on that day you have not only become a friend, but a glimmer of hope. You represent a world where people don’t make empty promises, tell lies, or disappear without a warning. In the eyes of a child who is more familiar with grief than joy, you very well could be the key to the elusive stability they have always heard about, but never known.

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Amid pandemic, infants especially need quality child care, reformers say [edsource.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 4/7/214:18 PM

By Karen D'Souza, EdSource, April 6, 2021 Children are born ready to learn. In the first year of life, the brain doubles, with about 90% of brain growth happening before kindergarten. However, only 1 in 3 eligible children under 5 years old take part in California’s publicly funded early learning and care programs. To make matters worse this year, 3 out of 4 California parents with children under 5 are worried their education and development will suffer because of the pandemic, according to...

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Child Care Relief Funding in American Rescue Plan: State-by-State Estimates [CLASP]

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer · 4/22/2111:33 AM

March 10,2021 Editor’s note: This article includes CLASP estimates on child care relief funding each state, D.C., and Puerto Rico will receive of the $39 billion included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARP Act) For decades, our country has had a child care crisis fraught with inequitable access for communities of color, unaffordable care for far too many families, poverty-level wages for early educators, and razorthin margins for providers. This long-term crisis has been exacerbated by the...

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