The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.
WEBINAR RAPID-EC has been surveying a national representative sample of families with young children since April 2020. In this webinar, we hear the story about children and families that’s emerging from the data and ideas about what policy responses are needed to respond to the toll the pandemic is taking on these families.
The new Early Childhood Workforce Index from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment puts more hard data behind the growing awareness that the U.S. child care system is collapsing under the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, with early childhood educators especially hard hit.
As we turn our focus from emergency child care to building a strong early care system for the future, it
Our ally in Virginia, the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, is rallying stakeholders to advocate for improvements to the state’s child-care industry during the current pandemic and beyond.
In a classic example of what we call “the Alliance Effect,” state advocates and national experts — connected by the Alliance for Early Success — make bigs gains for kids in Louisiana.
In response to a growing concern among state advocates about the state of federal child care relief, the Alliance convened some of the issue’s leading national advocacy organizations for a federal child care update and guidance on what site advocates can do next.
With the inauguration of the state’s new Early Childhood Education and Care Department, New Mexico has become the fourth state in the nation to have a cabinet level department dedicated to early childhood. The creation of the department reflects the Governor’s focus on improving the lives of New Mexico’s youngest children.
Open Strong was developed by state early childhood advocates and the Alliance for Early Success to assist state advocates in raising key issues and questions, to provoke conversations and solutions that are particular to operating child care programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an informative presentation from national and state child care and child welfare experts, Alliance allies heard about the current trends in child care and state child welfare policy, including the importance of child care for birth and foster parents, the provisions of the Child Care and Development Block Grant that can be used to provide child care services for dependent children involved in child welfare systems, and innovative child care/child welfare partnerships in Florida.
Nebraska has been awarded a Preschool Development Birth through Five renewal grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, and Alliance ally First Five Nebraska played a big role in this crucial win for their state’s children.
