Profiles: State and Tribal Grantees’ Innovation and Success in Implementing Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
Fact Sheet
The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting, or MIECHV, program provides critical support to high-risk children and families across the country by allowing states and tribal grantees to expand and improve evidence-based home visiting services.
An Investment in Our Future
Report
The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program provides critical support to high-risk children and families across the country by allowing state and tribal grantees to expand and improve evidence-based home visiting services.
Valuing All Our Families
Report
Stable, healthy marriages and relationships can bolster the economic security and well-being of adults and children.
Why We Need a Federal Preschool Investment in 6 Charts
Charts
Many children currently lack access to high-quality preschool, missing an opportunity to narrow the school-readiness gap and improve children’s lives over the long-term.
Aligning and Investing in Infant and Toddler Programs
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Investments in infants and toddlers—the most racially and ethnically diverse group in U.S. history—are a down payment on a brighter future for us all.
The Middle-Class Squeeze
Report
America's middle class is being squeezed by stagnant—and in many cases declining—incomes and rising costs. To address the middle-class squeeze, we need to enact policies that will both increase incomes and also address rising child care, higher education, health care, housing, and retirement costs.
New Child Care Regulations Are a Step in the Right Direction
Recent updates to the child care subsidy system bring much-needed changes to health and safety standards.
Real Family Values: Child Care and Early Childhood Education
Issue Brief
If we value opportunity, equality, and fairness, we must do more to provide children and working parents with access to high-quality, affordable child care.
The Importance of Early Childhood Programs for Women on the Brink
Issue Brief
Access to high-quality, affordable early childhood programs are rare for women living on the brink, but there are steps the federal government can take to improve access. The recent documentary, “Paycheck to Paycheck: The Life and Times of Katrina Gilbert,” highlights how these early childhood programs can support women in low-wage jobs.
Is a New Federal Early Learning Initiative Duplicative?
Issue Brief
The federal investment in early childhood education proposed in the Strong Start for America’s Children Act is not duplicative of existing federal and state programs, including Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant.
What the House Budget Committee Report Got Right and Wrong About Early Childhood Education
Early childhood education programs provide a critical support for children and families but need more resources to improve access to quality programs.
Infographic: The School-Readiness Gap
This infographic details some of the ways that high-quality preschool can help low-income children as they get ready to enter school.
The School-Readiness Gap and Preschool Benefits for Children of Color
Issue Brief
Laying the groundwork for America’s future success and broadly shared prosperity means investing in our growing communities of color today.
Who’s Not Going Back to School?
Issue Brief
Sequestration cuts to Head Start and other programs hurt America’s economy and American workers in the short term, and America’s global competitiveness and American children’s futures in the long term.
The Top 10 Myths About Preschool
Issue Brief
Because high-quality preschool is exceptionally important to the future strength of our nation, it is imperative that we get the facts straight.
