by WHSA | Sep 1, 2010
WHAT: “How to Use Important New Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance Data” Webinar SPONSOR: Coalition on Human Needs WHEN: September 07, 2010 2:00 PM Eastern WHERE: Internet DESCRIPTION: On Sept. 16 and 28, Census will release 2009 data showing the...
by WHSA | Aug 31, 2010
A recent National Head Start Association NHSA Dialog (vol 13, issue 3), a research-to-practice journal for the early intervention field, features the article “Teacher-Child Relationships and Children’s Externalizing Behaviors in Head Start.” Authors...
by WHSA | Aug 31, 2010
The National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center (NCCIC), a service of the Child Care Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families, has released the full Child Care Development Fund Report of State and Territory Plans FY 2010-11. CCDF is...
by WHSA | Aug 30, 2010
WHAT: WECA’s 56th Annual Conference, “Nurturing Quality Together” SPONSOR: Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA) WHEN: Thursday, November 11 to Saturday, November 13, 2010 WHERE: Marriott Madison West, Middleton DESCRIPTION: Quality is on...
by WHSA | Aug 30, 2010
WHAT: Online meeting for Wisconsin Head Start/Early Head Start Directors SPONSOR: Wisconsin Department of Children & Families (DCF) WHEN: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. (central) WHERE: Internet using Microsoft Office Live Meeting DESCRIPTION:...
by WHSA | Aug 30, 2010
WHAT: The 14th Annual Birth to Three Institute, “Looking Forward from 2010: Keeping Babies, Toddlers and Families at the Head of Early Head Start Services” SPONSOR: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)/Administration for Children and...
by WHSA | Aug 26, 2010
A recent study from The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization fostering sound public policy and effective government, reveals that eleven percent of infants living in poverty have a mother suffering from severe depression....
by WHSA | Aug 24, 2010
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Madison issued the Fast Focus brief “Promising Antipoverty Strategies for Families” (no. 6) this August. From the IRP Focus Alert announcing the brief’s publication : “American...
by WHSA | Aug 23, 2010
Early Childhood 2010: Innovation for the Next Generation, an historic summit co-convened by the Department of Health & Human Services and Department of Education, was held August 3-4, 2010, in Washington, DC. Over 1,500 people attended the summit, including a...