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Advocacy, Public Relations & Fundraising
311 Transforming Child Care: A New Federal Agenda
313 Unionizing Home-Based Child Care Providers: An Update
337 Making the Case for Prevention: Using New Research
340 Quality ECE: A Critical Economic Asset against Global Competition
343 Effective Marketing with Hispanic Parents
347 Data-Driven Policymaking
353 Anticipatory Innovation
359 Engaging Doctors in Advocacy Work
366 The ABCs of Advocacy
372 Michigan’s Great Start Initiative: Lessons Learned
385 Building a Dynamic & Diverse Parent Coalition
399 Tools for Advocates: Understanding Data
404 Family, Friend & Neighbor Care
405 Strengthening Families
417 Strategies for Involving the Legal Services Community in Early Care & Education
428 Building a Statewide Business Coalition
437 Communication Tools You Can Use
449 Changes in Federal Policy for Child Care, Head Start and Other Early Childhood Programs
456 Advancing Strategic, Coordinated Advocacy Efforts to Produce State-Based Policy Change
473 When Young Children Are Homeless
481 Communicating to Influence
503 Amp it Up: How to Build Word of Mouth Movements and Mobilize Your Brand Ambassadors
507 From Mass Markets to Mass Customization: Public Awareness Response to Target Audience Segmentation
537 Building a Strategic Marketing and Promotional Campaign on a Budget
545 Building for Sustainability from the Start
557 The Pre-K Pinch: Early Education Costs and the Middle Class
569 Framing Early Child Development for Public Understanding and Support
571 Social Marketing: A Tool for Behavioral Impact
596 Understanding and Working with Different Ages and Generations
Board Development
341 You’re “On-Board” - Now What?
353 Anticipatory Innovation
474 Engaging Your Board, Staff and Community - Working as a Team
548 Recruiting, Orienting & Retaining Superior Board Members
576 Board Operations
577 Governance as Leadership: Leveraging the Collective Wisdom of the Board of Directors
578 Innovative Strategies for Nonprofit Management
581 Organizational Self-Assessment Process
582 Dealing with Conflict of Interest
Child Abuse Prevention
320 Understanding & Responding to Abuse & Neglect
329 Empowering Parents to Keep their Children Safe & Healthy
337 Making the Case for Prevention: Using New Research
367 Understanding Domestic Violence
405 Strengthening Families
406 Aligning the Efforts - Strengthening Families/Supporting Children
457 The Effects of Violence on Brain Development in Children
535 Get Ready, Get Set, Go! Using Research to Inform Program Selection
552 Recognizing Child Abuse Using Case Examples
Child Care Health Consultants
303 Give Children a Running Start: Child Health & Obesity
352 Educating Spanish-Speaking Parents about Environmental Health Risks
389 Managing Food Allergies
421 Dorothy Said It Best….There Is No Place Like Home
448 Child Care Health Consulting: Serving Children with Special Needs
464 Smart Start and NAP SACC - A Statewide Collaboration to Address Childhood Obesity in Child Care
488 Improving Children’s Environments: Healthy Homes and Lead
510 Children with Special Health Care Needs
Child Care Management
327 Legal & Ethical Challenges in ECE Administration
330 You Can Stop Gossip, Whining & Negativity!
344 Hiring New Staff
354 Helping Child Care Providers Develop a Budget
358 Comprehensive Insurance Benefits
377 Dynamic Staff Meetings
378 Sustaining Quality: Enhancing Child Care Management
417 Strategies for Involving the Legal Services Community
497 Financial Management
541 Helping Early Care & Education Businesses Attain Economies of Scale
542 Shared Services for the ECE Industry -- Introduction and Overview and Planning and Implementation
592 What Should a Job Description Include?
Community Development & Collaboration
305 The Whole Child Project
309 Community Scorecard - Empowering and Giving Voice
310 Managing for Impact
313 Unionizing Home-Based Child Care Providers
318 FirstSchool: Seamless Education for Pre-K to 3rd Grade
332 Scoring Success with the RFP Process
340 Quality ECE: A Critical Economic Asset against Global Competition
353 Anticipatory Innovation
355 Quilting a Community Bridge That Spans Multiple Pre-K Funding Streams
357 No Dead End Ahead: Giving Reliable Referrals
361 Making the Navy’s Military Model Work for Your Organization
362 Early Childhood Tooth Decay
373 Quality Assurance: Making Sound Investments in Centers
379 A Strategic Community Planning Process to Meet the Needs of Infants & Toddlers
381 Teachers Matter
395 A Look at the Health Check System
407 The Medical Home
417 Strategies for Involving the Legal Services Community in Early Care & Education
418 Conducting a Community Needs Assessment
419 Collaboration of Accountability: Blending Program, Fiscal and Contracts Monitoring
425 The Touchpoint Approach
426 Partnership between Colorado’s Early Intervention System & the NICU
428 Building a Statewide Business Coalition
445 Practical Approaches for a Successful Merger of Local Partnerships
451 The Starting Place: Connecting Services in a Rural Community
459 Developing Virginia’s Quality Rating and Improvement System
474 Engaging Your Board, Staff and Community…Working as a Team
482 Systems Change without Extra $
484 Collaboration and Turf
491 Addressing Child Poverty: Building Assets for Children, Families and Communities
502 Foster Care and Early Childhood
503 Amp it Up: How to Build Word of Mouth Movements and Mobilize Your Brand Ambassadors
511 How to Get Schools, Counties and District Level Leadership on Board
512 Building Connections between Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers
513 We’ve Completed the Ready Schools Assessment…Now What?
514 Ohio SPARK
516 Launching a Community-based Approach to Ready Schools
524 Collaborative Leadership: Initiating, Managing, Financing and Evaluating Partnerships that Work
545 Building for Sustainability from the Start
554 Essential Components of Establishing a Nurse-Family Partnership Program in Your Community
572 Smart Start and Local Social Services Departments: A Roadmap for Successful Collaboration
587 Connecting Children with Nature: A Statewide Action Collaborative for Children
Diversity
318 FirstSchool: Seamless Education for Pre-K to 3rd Grade
323 Latino Family Group Meeting Strategies
326 How to Effectively Engage & Connect With Latino Parents
328 The Kaleidoscopic Leader
330 You Can Stop Gossip, Whining & Negativity!
334 Creating a Quality Benchmark for Cultural Competence
343 Effective Marketing with Hispanic Parents
351 Food Security & Hunger among Immigrant Latino Children
352 Educating Spanish-Speaking Parents about Environmental Health Risks
400 Perspectives on Supporting Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Families….Policies & Practice
422 Including Family Culture When Developing Quality Systems to Include Special Needs
458 Infant Mortality, Racial Disparities, and Institutional Racism – Social Justice and the Mission of Public Health
469 Choices of Care among Latino Low Income Working Families
509 Using the National Early Literacy Panel Findings to Enhance Literacy Development
520 Inclusion: What Is It & How Do I Do It?
546 Promoting Equity in Child and Family Outcomes: Using the “Race Matters” Framework
Early Childhood Financing
311 Transforming Child Care: A New Federal Agenda
340 Quality ECE: A Critical Economic Asset against Global Competition
350 Child Care Quality & Tax Credits
354 Helping Child Care Providers Develop a Budget
355 Quilting a Community Bridge That Spans Multiple Pre-K Funding Streams
360 The Child Care WAGE$ Project
399 Tools for Advocates: Understanding Data
402 Sustaining Early Childhood Initiatives
444 Fiscal Mapping: A New Tool for Early Childhood Financing and Systems Reform
449 Changes in Federal Policy for Child Care, Head Start and Other Early Childhood Programs
455 Innovative State Policy Approaches to Spending Investments on At-Risk Children Birth to Five
497 Financial Management
526 Child Care and Development Fund Administration: Overview of Federal Requirements
527 Child Care and Development Fund Quality Initiatives: National Trends
530 Child Care and Development Fund Administration in the Current Environment: National Trends
541 Helping Early Care & Education Businesses Attain Economies of Scale
542 Shared Services for the ECE Industry -- Introduction and Overview and Planning and Implementation
572 Smart Start and Local Social Services Departments: A Roadmap for Successful Collaboration
Early Childhood Professional Development
302 Selecting & Implementing Curriculum in Preschool
344 Hiring New Staff
360 The Child Care WAGE$ Project
378 Sustaining Quality: Enhancing Child Care Management
380 Perspectives on Meeting the Early Childhood Workforce Challenge
381 Teachers Matter
435 The Big Picture: Building Cross-Sector Early Childhood Professional Development Systems
439 Early Educator Certification
450 A Blueprint for State Professional Development System Policies
459 Developing Virginia’s Quality Rating and Improvement System
468 Professional Development Connections: A Focus on Workforce Literacy Issues
522 Making On-Site Technical Assistance Effective: Research, Policy and Best Practice
529 Relationship-based Professional Development
531 The Early Childhood Professional Development Systems Toolkit
539 Research on the Impact of Teacher-Child Interactions
543 Teacher-Child Interactions: Professional Development and the CLASS in Early Childhood Classrooms
556 Beyond the B.A.: Pre-K Teacher Quality from Research to Policy
566 Storytime: A New Approach to a Traditional Practice
568 Putting North Carolina’s Early Learning Standards Online
579 Setting the Bar for Online Early Childhood Professional Development Content
588 The Development of Social Competence for Children in Early Education Programs
Early Intervention
336 Supporting Positive Behavior
338 Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
339 Maltreated Infants: A National Picture of Part C Eligibility
356 Chronic Sorrow, Joy & Strength: Understanding Families
363 Wyoming’s Developmental Preschools
366 The ABCs of Advocacy
389 Managing Food Allergies
395 A Look at the Health Check System
396 Collaborative Planning for Inclusion
401 Respectful Accommodations
412 Program Consultation to Support Early Childhood Inclusion
421 Dorothy Said It Best….There Is No Place Like Home
422 Including Family Culture When Developing Quality Systems to Include Special Needs
426 Partnership between Colorado’s Early Intervention System & the NICU
435 The Big Picture: Building Cross-Sector Early Childhood Professional Development Systems
441 Assistive Technology to Facilitate Literacy Learning
448 Child Care Health Consulting: Serving Children with Special Needs
473 When Young Children Are Homeless
475 Making the Connection: Supporting Families with Children Who Have Special Needs
476 Rock Soup Reheated! Parents Making Dreams from Early Intervention to Young Adulthood
502 Assessing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care
510 Children with Special Health Care Needs
520 Inclusion: What Is It & How Do I Do It?
540 The ABCD’s of Child Development
Evaluation
309 Community Scorecard - Empowering and Giving Voice
310 Managing for Impact
332 Scoring Success with the RFP Process
339 Maltreated Infants: A National Picture of Part C Eligibility
345 Who’s Caring for Our Babies Now?
348 Using KIPS to Assess Parenting Outcomes
374 Evaluating Arizona’s First Things First Initiative
403 Help Me Grow: Connecticut’s Model for Screening Children’s Development and Connecting Families
416 Bright Stars, Rhode Island’s Quality Rating & Improvement System
418 Conducting a Community Needs Assessment
419 Collaboration of Accountability
433 Harnessing the Power of Data for Effective Decision-Making
438 Data Collection for the Texas School Readiness Certification System
440 Beyond Collaboration: Arizona’s Innovative Approach to Quality Rating Systems
469 Choices of Care among Latino Low Income Working Families
470 Examining Classroom Quality Measures in State Child Care Quality Rating Systems: Lessons from Tennessee
491 Addressing Child Poverty: Building Assets for Children, Families and Communities
499 Ask the Anchors: Question & Answer about NC Environment Rating Scale Assessments
515 Assessing and Acting on the Critical Components of Ready Schools
521 Improving Standards Using State Rankings of Child Care Licensing and Oversight
522 Making On-Site Technical Assistance Effective: Research, Policy and Best Practice
532 Raising A Reader Part II: The North Carolina Experience
533 The Incredible Years BASIC Parent Program Implementation
535 Get Ready, Get Set, Go! Using Research to Inform Program Selection
539 Research on the Impact of Teacher-Child Interactions
543 Teacher-Child Interactions: Professional Development and the CLASS in Early Childhood Classrooms
546 Promoting Equity in Child and Family Outcomes: Using the “Race Matters” Framework
565 SPARK Georgia: Year 5 Evaluation and Lessons Learned
580 Logic Models
Family Support
314 Safe and Sober Families: Supporting Families Impacted by Alcohol and Drug Use
320 Understanding & Responding to Abuse & Neglect
323 Latino Family Group Meeting Strategies
324 Home Visiting As a Strategy for School Success
326 How to Effectively Engage & Connect With Latino Parents
329 Empowering Parents to Keep their Children Safe & Healthy
336 Supporting Positive Behavior
337 Making the Case for Prevention: Using New Research
343 Effective Marketing with Hispanic Parents
347 Data-Driven Policymaking
352 Educating Spanish-Speaking Parents about Environmental Health Risks
356 Chronic Sorrow, Joy & Strength: Understanding Families
357 No Dead End Ahead: Giving Reliable Referrals
364 Train-the-Trainer: Helping Young Children Cope with Grief and Loss
367 Understanding Domestic Violence
379 A Strategic Community Planning Process to Meet the Needs of Infants & Toddlers
382 Group Meetings That Keep Parents Coming Back
385 Building a Dynamic & Diverse Parent Coalition
405 Strengthening Families
407 The Medical Home
414 Extending Home Visiting Programs to Family, Friend & Neighbor Caregivers
423 Early Brain Development, Early Learning and the Effects of Stress and Violence on the Developing Brain
441 Assistive Technology to Facilitate Literacy Learning
451 The Starting Place: Connecting Services in a Rural Community
457 The Effects of Violence on Brain Development in Children
458 Infant Mortality, Racial Disparities, and Institutional Racism – Social Justice and the Mission of Public Health
473 When Young Children Are Homeless
475 Making the Connection: Supporting Families with Children Who Have Special Needs
476 Rock Soup Reheated! Parents Making Dreams from Early Intervention to Young Adulthood
490 Maternal Depressive Symptoms: More than the “Baby Blues”
491 Addressing Child Poverty: Building Assets for Children, Families and Communities
506 Launching and Sustaining a Statewide Incredible Years Program
508 Promoting Positive Mental Health in Children
509 Using the National Early Literacy Panel Findings to Enhance Literacy Development
532 Raising A Reader Part II: The North Carolina Experience
533 The Incredible Years BASIC Parent Program Implementation
535 Get Ready, Get Set, Go! Using Research to Inform Program Selection
538 How Do We Get the Parents on the Floor and Keep Them There?
549 Parents as Teachers Pre-Conference Day
551 Dad’s In the Mix: Getting Fathers Involved in Your Program
554 Essential Components of Establishing a Nurse-Family Partnership Program in Your Community
584 Raising a Reader: Part I
597 Iowa Family Support Structure
598 Lost Boys and the Failure to Launch
Health
303 Give Children a Running Start: Child Health & Obesity
314 Safe and Sober Families: Supporting Families Impacted by Alcohol and Drug Use
320 Understanding & Responding to Abuse & Neglect
329 Empowering Parents to Keep their Children Safe & Healthy
331 Be Active Kids
338 Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
351 Food Security & Hunger among Immigrant Latino Children
352 Educating Spanish-Speaking Parents about Environmental Health Risks
362 Early Childhood Tooth Decay
389 Managing Food Allergies
395 A Look At the Health Check System
415 Launching an Outdoor Learning Environment Initiative
421 Dorothy Said It Best….There Is No Place Like Home
423 Early Brain Development, Early Learning and the Effects of Stress and Violence on the Developing Brain
425 The Touchpoint Approach
457 The Effects of Violence on Brain Development in Children
458 Infant Mortality, Racial Disparities, and Institutional Racism - Social Justice and the Mission of Public Health
464 Smart Start and NAP SACC - A Statewide Collaboration to Address Childhood Obesity in Child Care
488 Improving Children’s Environment: Healthy Homes and Lead
490 Maternal Depressive Symptoms: More than the “Baby Blues”
492 Naturalizing Play Areas: Using Design as a Preventative Health Intervention
500 Early Childhood and Autism Screening
501 Early Childhood and Social/Emotional Development Issues
502 Assessing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care
508 Promoting Positive Mental Health in Children
510 Children with Special Health Care Needs
540 The ABCD’s of Child Development
552 Recognizing Child Abuse Using Case Examples
554 Essential Components of Establishing a Nurse-Family Partnership Program in Your Community
586 Quality Enhancement for the Outdoor Classroom
599 Early Childhood Mental Health Systems Development: A Public Health Approach to Young Children’s Social Emotional Development
Human Resources
300 Management Skills for New Managers: Building a Team
304 Doing Good or Doing Great?
317 Improving Team Effectiveness with Psychometrics
327 Legal & Ethical Challenges in ECE Administration
330 You Can Stop Gossip, Whining & Negativity!
358 Comprehensive Insurance Benefits
377 Dynamic Staff Meetings
536 Recruitment - Getting it Right the First Time
590 Paying Employees Fairly and Equitably
591 Ending the Employment Relationship
592 What Should a Job Description Include?
595 Dealing with Harassment in the Workplace
596 Understanding and Working with Different Ages and Generations
Inclusion
339 Maltreated Infants: A National Picture of Part C Eligibility
356 Chronic Sorrow, Joy & Strength: Understanding Families
363 Wyoming’s Developmental Preschools
366 The ABCs of Advocacy
396 Collaborative Planning for Inclusion
401 Respectful Accommodations
412 Program Consultation to Support Early Childhood Inclusion
435 The Big Picture: Building Cross-Sector Early Childhood Professional Development Systems
441 Assistive Technology to Facilitate Literacy Learning
448 Child Care Health Consulting: Serving Children with Special Needs
476 Rock Soup Reheated! Parents Making Dreams from Early Intervention to Young Adulthood
520 Inclusion: What Is It & How Do I Do It?
525 Inclusion: The Who, What, and How with an Emphasis on Local and State Strategies that Make it Work
Infant/Toddler
345 Who’s Caring for Our Babies Now?
346 New Developments toward Building Infant Toddler Teacher Support Systems
365 Babies & Toddlers in the Policy Picture
379 A Strategic Community Planning Process to Meet the Needs of Infants & Toddlers
393 Emergent Literacy Matters!
397 A National Overview - How States Are Intentionally Including Children of All Ages in Their Quality Rating Systems
413 Babies & Toddlers in Child Care: State Policy & Practice
422 Including Family Culture When Developing Quality Systems to Include Special Needs
423 Early Brain Development, Early Learning and the Effects of Stress and Violence on the Developing Brain
452 Strategies to Support “Substantial” Time in a Quality Outdoor Learning Environment
455 Innovative State Policy Approaches to Spending Investments on At-Risk Children Birth to Five
588 The Development of Social Competence for Children in Early Education Programs
Leadership Development
304 Doing Good or Doing Great?
328 The Kaleidoscopic Leader
381 Teachers Matter
384 Embracing Personal & Organizational Leadership
387 Looking Into the Paperroom
388 The 7 Keys of Effective Teams
446 Cultivating the Seed of Leadership
481 Communicating to Influence
524 Collaborative Leadership: Initiating, Managing, Financing and Evaluating Partnerships that Work
555 Early Childhood Leadership
577 Governance as Leadership: Leveraging the Collective Wisdom of the Board of Directors
593 Leadership Discussion
Literacy
306 Get Connected: Using Online Tools
393 Emergent Literacy Matters!
424 Implementing Teacheread
441 Assistive Technology to Facilitate Literacy Learning
509 Using the National Early Literacy Panel Findings to Enhance Literacy Development
532 Raising A Reader Part II: The North Carolina Experience
566 Storytime: A New Approach to a Traditional Practice
584 Raising A Reader Part I
Medical Professional Track
301 Mental Health in Primary Care Pediatric Practice
500 Early Childhood and Autism Screening
501 Social-Emotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood - Understanding Risk, Screening, and Resources for the Primary Care Practice
502 Assessing the Special Health Care Needs of Children in Foster Care
540 The ABCD’s of Development
552 Recognizing Child Abuse Using Case Examples
National Policy Development
311 Transforming Child Care: A New Federal Agenda
339 Maltreated Infants: A National Picture of Part C Eligibility
350 Child Care Quality & Tax Credits
365 Babies & Toddlers in the Policy Picture
380 Perspectives on Meeting the Early Childhood Workforce Challenge
399 Tools for Advocates: Understanding Data
400 Perspectives on Supporting Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Families….Policies & Practice
413 Babies & Toddlers in Child Care: State Policy & Practice
414 Extending Home Visiting Programs to Family, Friend & Neighbor Caregivers
449 Changes in Federal Policy for Child Care, Head Start and Other Early Childhood Programs
450 A Blueprint for State Professional Development System Policies
521 Improving Standards Using State Rankings of Child Care Licensing and Oversight
553 National Accreditation and Quality Rating & Improvement Systems: A Generative Discussion
556 Beyond the B.A.: Pre-K Teacher Quality from Research to Policy
567 North Carolina’s Automated Record Review Process for the Improper Payments Act of 2002
Organizational Development
300 Management Skills for New Managers: Building a Team
304 Doing Good or Doing Great?
317 Improving Team Effectiveness with Psychometrics
330 You Can Stop Gossip, Whining & Negativity!
341 You’re “On-Board” - Now What?
377 Dynamic Staff Meetings
387 Looking Into the Paperroom
388 The 7 Keys of Effective Teams
445 Practical Approaches for a Successful Merger of Local Partnerships
446 Cultivating the Seed of Leadership
536 Recruitment - Getting It Right the First Time
548 Recruiting, Orienting & Retaining Superior Board Members
575 IRS
576 Board Operations
577 Governance as Leadership: Leveraging the Collective Wisdom of the Board of Directors
578 Innovative Strategies for Nonprofit Management
596 Understanding and Working with Different Ages and Generations
Outdoor Learning
415 Launching an Outdoor Learning Environment Initiative
452 Strategies to Support “Substantial” Time in a Quality Outdoor Learning Environment
467 Play Outside! Adventures with the NC Outdoor Learning Environments Alliance
492 Naturalizing Play Areas: Using Design as a Preventative Health Intervention
494 What Grows in Your Garden? Much More Than You Imagine!
504 Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul
586 Quality Enhancement for the Outdoor Classroom
587 Connecting Children with Nature: A Statewide Action Collaborative for Children
596 Understanding and Working with Different Ages and Generations
Pre-Kindergarten-Related
302 Selecting & Implementing Curriculum in Preschool
355 Quilting a Community Bridge That Spans Multiple Pre-K Funding Streams
363 Wyoming’s Developmental Preschools
364 Train-the-Trainer: Helping Young Children Cope with Grief and Loss
368 Texas Early Education Model
393 Emergent Literacy Matters!
452 Strategies to Support “Substantial” Time in a Quality Outdoor Learning Environment
495 Newly Revised! The NC Guide for the Early Years
550 The Role of Schools in the Early Care and Education Delivery System
556 Beyond the B.A.: Pre-K Teacher Quality from Research to Policy
557 The Pre-K Pinch: Early Education Costs and the Middle Class
568 Putting North Carolina’s Early Learning Standards Online
588 The Development of Social Competence for Children in Early Education Programs
Quality Initiatives, Quality Rating & Improvement Systems
334 Creating a Quality Benchmark for Cultural Competence
373 Quality Assurance: Making Sound Investments in Centers Using Public and Private Funds
378 Sustaining Quality: Enhancing Child Care Management
391 A Systematic Approach to Technical Assistance
397 A National Overview - How States Are Intentionally including Children of All Ages in Their Quality Rating Systems
416 Bright Stars, Rhode Island’s Quality Rating & Improvement System
422 Including Family Culture When Developing Quality Systems to Include Special Needs
440 Beyond Collaboration: Arizona’s Innovative Approach to Quality Rating & Improvement
459 Developing Virginia’s Quality Rating and Improvement System
470 Examining Classroom Quality Measures in State Child Care Quality Rating Systems: Lessons from Tennessee
527 Child Care and Development Fund Quality Initiatives: National Trends
528 Quality Rating Systems: A Strategic Movement for Defining Quality
534 NC’s Star Rated License: Transition Process
553 National Accreditation and Quality Rating & Improvement Systems: A Generative Discussion
Ready Schools
318 FirstSchool: Seamless Education for Pre-K to 3rd Grade
478 North Carolina Curricula Review Process: Who, What, When and Why (and What it Means for Programs)
493 Ready Schools Miami
495 The NC Guide to the Early Years
511 How to Get Schools, Counties and District Level Leadership on Board
512 Building Connections between Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers
513 We’ve completed the Ready Schools Assessment…Now What?
514 Ohio SPARK
515 Assessing and Acting on the Critical Components of Ready Schools
516 Launching a Community-based Approach to Ready Schools
543 Teacher-Child Interactions: Professional Development and the CLASS in Early Childhood Classrooms
566 Storytime: A New Approach to a Traditional Practice
Smart Start Financial Administration
419 Collaboration of Accountability: Blending Program, Fiscal and Contracts Monitoring
429 Smart Start Fiscal Update
430 Smart Start Program Match
431 Smart Start Year-End Close
575 IRS
576 Board Operations
Social/Emotional
301 Mental Health in Primary Care Pediatric Practice
336 Supporting Positive Behavior
356 Chronic Sorrow, Joy, and Strength: Understanding Families of Young Children with Disabilities
364 Train-the-Trainer: Helping Young Children Cope with Grief and Loss
489 Overview of the North Carolina Pyramid Model Partnership
490 Maternal Depressive Symptoms: More than the “Baby Blues”
501 Social-Emotional Development in Infancy and Early Childhood - Understanding Risk, Screening, and Resources for the Primary Care Practice
508 Promoting Positive Mental Health in Children
599. Early Childhood Mental Health Systems Development: A Public Health Approach to Young Children’s Social Emotional Development
State Initiatives
305 The Whole Child Project
368 Texas Early Education Model
372 Michigan’s Great Start Initiative: Lessons Learned
374 Evaluating Arizona’s First Things First Initiative
386 Improving the Delivery of Early Care & Education in Oklahoma
391 A Systematic Approach to Technical Assistance
403 Help Me Grow: A Statewide Model for Screening Children’s Development and Connecting Families to Resources
406 Aligning the Efforts - Strengthening Families/Supporting Children
407 The Medical Home
416 Bright Stars, Rhode Island’s Quality Rating & Improvement System
426 Partnership between Colorado’s Early Intervention System & the NICU
428 Building a Statewide Business Coalition
438 Data Collection for the Texas School Readiness Certification System
444 Fiscal Mapping: A New Tool for Early Childhood Financing and Systems Reform
489 Overview of the North Carolina Pyramid Model Partnership
493 Ready Schools Florida
514 Ohio SPARK
565 SPARK Georgia: Year 5 Evaluation and Lessons Learned
State Child Care Administrators and Policymakers
347 Data-Driven Policymaking
444 Fiscal Mapping: A New Tool for Early Childhood Financing and Systems Reform
450 A Blueprint for State Professional Development System Policies
455 Innovative State Policy Approaches to Spending Investments on At-Risk Children Birth to Five
521 Improving Standards Using State Rankings of Child Care Licensing and Oversight
522 Making On-Site Technical Assistance Effective: Research, Policy and Best Practice
523 Trends in Child Care Licensing
525 Inclusion: The Who, What, and How with an Emphasis on Local and State Strategies that Make it Work
526 Child Care and Development Fund Administration: Overview of Federal Requirements
527 Child Care and Development Fund Quality Initiatives: National Trends
528 Quality Rating Systems: A Strategic Movement for Defining Quality
530 Child Care and Development Fund Administration in the Current Environment: National Trends
567 North Carolina’s Automated Record Review Process for the Improper Payments Act of 2002
System Building
305 The Whole Child Project
309 Community Scorecard - Empowering and Giving Voice
310 Managing for Impact
313 Unionizing Home-Based Child Care Providers
332 Scoring Success with the RFP Process
334 Creating a Quality Benchmark for Cultural Competence
345 Who’s Caring for Our Babies Now?
346 New Developments toward Building Infant Toddler Teacher Support Systems
348 Using KIPS to Assess Parenting Outcomes
360 The Child Care WAGE$ Project
361 Making the Navy’s Military Model Work for Your Organization
363 Wyoming’s Developmental Preschools
365 Babies & Toddlers in the Policy Picture
368 Texas Early Education Model
372 Michigan’s Great Start Initiative: Lessons Learned
373 Quality Assurance: Making Sound Investments in Centers
374 Evaluating Arizona’s First Things First Initiative
380 Perspectives on Meeting the Early Childhood Workforce Challenge
386 Improving the Delivery of Early Care & Education in Oklahoma
391 A Systematic Approach to Technical Assistance
396 Collaborative Planning for Inclusion
397 A National Overview - How States Are Intentionally Including Children of All Ages in Their Quality Rating Systems
400 Perspectives on Supporting Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Families….Policies & Practice
402 Sustaining Early Childhood Initiatives
403 Help Me Grow: A Statewide Model for Screening Children’s Development and Connecting Families to Resources
404 Family, Friend & Neighbor Care
406 Aligning the Efforts - Strengthening Families/Supporting Children
413 Babies & Toddlers in Child Care: State Policy & Practice
414 Extending Home Visiting Programs to Family, Friend & Neighbor Caregivers
417 Strategies for Involving the Legal Services Community in Early Care & Education
440 Beyond Collaboration: Arizona’s Innovative Approach to Quality Rating & Improvement
523 Trends in Child Care Licensing
524 Collaborative Leadership: Initiating, Managing, Financing and Evaluating Partnerships that Work
525 Inclusion: The Who, What, and How with an Emphasis on Local and State Strategies that Make it Work
526 Child Care and Development Fund Administration: Overview of Federal Requirements
528 Quality Rating Systems: A Strategic Movement for Defining Quality
529 Relationship-based Professional Development
530 Child Care and Development Fund Administration in the Current Environment: National Trends
531 The Early Childhood Professional Development Systems Toolkit
534 NC’s Star Rated License: Transition Process
542 Shared Services for the ECE Industry — Introduction and Overview and Planning and Implementation
550 The Role of Schools in the Early Care and Education Delivery System