WHAT: Update on Maternal, Infant, and Child Home Visitation Webcast SPONSOR: Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) WHEN: Thursday, January 6 at 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Via the web. Please use this link to access the webcast. DESCRIPTION: The Federal Health Care...
Yesterday, in a 79-16 vote the Senate passed HR 3082, a short-term continuing resolution (CR) for FY 2011 appropriations which authorizes continued government operations through March 4, 2011. This CR replaces the previous CR which expired on December 21. The House...
Late last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the FY 2011 Consolidated Appropriations Act from the Senate floor, eliminating any chance for the passage of an omnibus spending bill in this 111th Congress. The omnibus contained much needed funding for Head...
Register for the 9th Annual Wisconsin Head Start Association (WHSA) Training Conference, Head Start: Paving Our Way to Excellence, February 14-16, 2011 at the Kalahari Waterpark Resort & Convention Center in Wisconsin Dells.
Word coming from the advocacy efforts in D.C. indicates that the long shot of achieving an Omnibus Appropriations bill in the Senate is actually still moving forward! The especially good news is that this bill contains an increase of $840 million over FY 2010 levels...
As a substitute to the House approved long-term continuing resolution (CR), the Senate has released an omnibus FY 2011 spending bill, the FY 2011 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The omnibus bill includes an increase of $840 million for Head Start over FY 2010 enacted...
The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) has approved $4 million dollars for the second round of funding for YoungStar, Wisconsin’s childcare quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), which will be used for the continued implementation of YoungStar. The JFC also...
Last week, the House passed (212-206) a third continuing resolution (CR) for FY 2011 appropriations. This third CR differs from the first two in that if passed by the Senate would be a long-term, full-year resolution. Like the first two CRs, the new CR would freeze...
Together First Focus, the Foundation for Child Development, and PolicyLab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have released two new policy briefs that examine the effects of the recession on children and families. The Effect of Recession on Child Well-Being...
