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Key areas of work include infant-early childhood mental health and parent mental health, Part C Early Intervention, child welfare, early care and education policy, parenting and family supports, and public benefits. National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) aims to improve the lives of low-income children by partnering with advocates and policymakers to provide research, analyses of policy and policy implementation, and responsive support.
State allies can call on NCCP to:
NCCP has done extensive research on states’ design, financing, and implementation of policies and programs that support infant-early childhood mental health across systems, and can provide research and TA in these areas.
NCCP works with states on policies that help ensure infants’ and toddlers’ access to Part C Early Intervention Services, and strengthen the financing and quality of services.
NCCP partners with state advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders to conduct research on ECE programs’ use of exclusionary practices and design effective policies that include easily accessible supports for ECE programs, monitoring, and attention to eliminating disparities related to children’s race and special needs.
NCCP can provide state-specific options for improving policies that reduce families’ economic hardship, including TANF and SNAP, and promote families economic mobility by reducing public benefit cliffs. NCCP’s family economic supports (FES) responsive support includes analysis of state policies and modeling of benefits that can result from reforms, provision of examples from other states, and exploration of messaging and evidence that can help make the case for stronger FES supports for families with young children.
Additional Alliance-funded support for state advocacy includes:
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