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The Child Care Bureau developed the Child Care Technical Assistance
Network (CCTAN) to support work of States, Territories, and Tribes
administering the Child Care and Development Fund.
The Afterschool Investments project provides technical assistance
to support program development and administration on issues related
to afterschool initiatives. The project produces and disseminates
information, tools, and materials for supporting and sustaining
programs and creating successful partnerships between CCDF grantees
and the many other public and private sector partners responsible
for improving after-school opportunities in the States. The contractors
are The Finance Project in partnership with the National Governors
Association.
Center
on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning |
CONTRACTOR
University of Illinois |
PROJECT
DIRECTOR
Mary Louise Hemmeter, Ph.D. |
WEB
http://csefel.uiuc.edu
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EMAIL
mlhemm@uiuc.edu
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PHONE
(217) 333-0260 |
The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
is a collaborative initiative of the Child Care and Head Start Bureaus.
This national center will help Head Start and Child Care programs
identify and implement practices with demonstrated effectiveness
in promoting children's social and emotional competence. The goals
of the Center are designed to strengthen the capacity of Child Care
and Head Start to improve the social and emotional outcomes for
young children. The University of Illinois will partner with a consortium
of universities and early childhood organizations including the
University of Colorado at Denver, the University of South Florida,
the University of Connecticut, Tennessee Voices for Children, and
Education Development Center to carry out the goals and activities
of the Center.
The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
(NACCRRA), through a cooperative agreement with the Child Care Bureau,
receives funding to operate Child Care Aware-a national toll-free
child care consumer telephone hotline and web-site. The mission
of Child Care Aware is to ensure that families have access to accurate,
useful information about finding child care. Through Child Care
Aware, families are linked to their local, community-based child
care resource and referral program and receive consumer education
materials.
The Child Care Information Systems Technical Assistance Project
(CCISTAP) supports States, Territories, and Tribal Organizations
in collecting, managing, and reporting child care data. CCISTAP's
major emphasis is on building the capacity of information systems
at the local level to improve the quality of administrative data.
The methods include software utilities for data providers, computer-based
training, and site visits to trouble-shoot difficult information
systems problems. The Project's Child Care Automation Resource Center
hosts a web site and a toll-free hot line. CCISTAP provides technical
workshops at the semi-annual ACF Users Group Conferences, ACF Regional
Meetings, and the National Child Care Data Conference.
The Conference Management Center coordinates and supports national
and regional child care conferences for State, Territorial and Tribal
Administrators. The Center supports national leadership forums on
critical child care issues, such as Child Care for Infants and Toddlers
and Child Care Issues in the Hispanic Community; the annual CCB
State Administrators meeting; and regional conferences throughout
the country in every ACF Region.
The Child Care and Early Education Research Connections (CCEE-RC)
is a web-based, interactive database of research documents and public
use data sets for conducting secondary analyses on topics related
to early care and education. After a three-year developmental period,
this project was launched in 2004 through a cooperative agreement
with the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia
University and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and
Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. The CCEE-RC
conducts literature reviews; develops and disseminates materials
designed to improve child care policy research; provides technical
assistance to researchers and policy makers; synthesizes findings
into policy research briefs; and provides support to the Child Care
Policy Research Consortium.
The Healthy Child Care America campaign is a collaborative effort
of health professionals, child care professionals, families and
other services working in partnership to improve the health and
well-being of children in child care settings. The goals of the
campaign are to: provide technical assistance to assist States,
Territories, Tribes and communities in developing and strengthening
linkages between child care providers, health professionals, and
families. These partnerships ensure that children are cared for
in healthy and nurturing environments and have access to a medical
home that enables them to receive necessary immunizations, health
screenings and other health and social services. The Healthy Child
Care America campaign is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services Child Care Bureau and Maternal and Child Health
Bureau and is coordinated in partnership with the American Academy
of Pediatrics.
The National Child Care Information Center, in collaboration with
the ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood and Elementary Education,
is the primary clearinghouse to support the development of expertise
and dissemination of child care information. An extensive database
of child care information is maintained and resources are disseminated
via information and referral services, Internet website, publication
of the Child Care Bulletin, bimonthly mailings, resource rooms at
conferences, and through presentations at meetings and conferences.
A network of State Technical Assistance Specialists, working with
the ACF Regional Offices, provides on-site consultative support
to State grantees. National Child Care Information Center is a partner
in the QUILT: Quality in Linking Together, an initiative to support
and increase partnerships between child care, Head Start and other
early education programs.
The Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center provides targeted
technical assistance services to over 500 Tribes supported by the
Child Care and Development Fund. Activities include: a toll-free
information and referral line; maintenance of a website with information
on tribal child care programs, including promising practices and
available resources; an annual national tribal child care conference;
and cluster trainings.
The Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative is a project of the
Child Care Bureau at ZERO TO THREE that is designed to work collaboratively
with CCDF State child care administrators to help move forward system
improvements in infant and toddler child care. The Initiative will
collect, produce and disseminate information and resources as well
as help states develop or implement plans to support strategic initiatives
and evaluate progress.
PREVIOUS CCTAN PROJECTS
Child
Care Administration Project |
The Child Care Administration Project provides technical assistance
to State Child Care Lead Agencies on issues related to the administration
of the Child Care and Development Fund. The Project will produce a
handbook and trainer's manual on the basics of child care administration
as well as issue briefs on more in-depth topics. The Project will
also facilitate peer-to-peer technical assistance through conference
calls and site visits. A portion of project activities will focus
on collaboration with other programs, including Child Support Enforcement
and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). PROJECT DIRECTOR:
Jeanette Hercik. (703) 385-3200
Child
Care Partnership Project |
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The Child
Care Partnership Project was established to promote and nurture
innovative practices and partnerships. The project provides information
and technical assistance to state child care administrators as they
work with businesses, philanthropic organizations, and other groups
to build and sustain partnerships. A series of tools and materials,
developed by the project, are available in print and on the internet.
Contractor: The Finance Project,
in collaboration with the Families
and Work Institute and the National
Governors' Association. Project Manager: Sharon Deich. (202) 628-4200
Child
Care Inclusion Project for Children with Disabilities (Map
Project) (concluded 9/30/00) |
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The Map to Inclusive Child Care Project offered an important opportunity
to ensure that children with disabilities, ages birth through 12,
will have access to child care alongside their typically developing
peers. Project staff and consultants assisted teams from 10 competitively
selected states each year to conduct a strategic planning process
and work plans. Over the course of the three-year project, 31 states
participated. For more information, contact Carol deBarba at:
cdebarba@acf.hhs.gov
For additional information on the Child Care Bureau's
Child Care Technical Assistance Network, Contact
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