by WHSA | Mar 16, 2012
The YoungStar child care quality rating and improvement system is a breakthrough policy initiative that has great promise to transform child care in Wisconsin by helping parents make good choices and by providing incentives and assistance for child care programs to...
by WHSA | Mar 16, 2012
CLASP recently published a new analysis based on data from Head Start Program Information Reports (PIR), entitled Putting Children and Families First: Head Start Programs in 2010 (February 2012), by Stephanie Schmit Danielle Ewen. The analysis provides information on...
by WHSA | Aug 3, 2011
The Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Program at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) along with the Waisman Center’s Community of Practice on Autism Spectrum Disorders and other Developmental Disabilities (CoP ASD/DD) have...
by WHSA | Jul 22, 2011
The Simon Technology Center (STC) at the PACER Center has published EZ AT 2: Simple Assistive Technology Ideas for Children Ages Birth to Three (2011), a guide for parents and professionals interested in helping infants and toddlers with disabilities participate more...
by WHSA | Jul 19, 2011
The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) has released a new report, The State of America’s Children 2011, which finds that in the past year children have fallen further behind in many of the leading indicators as the country slowly climbs out of the recession. ...
by WHSA | Jun 30, 2011
The Spring 2011 edition (vol. 13, no. 1) of the free online journal Early Childhood Research & Practice (which features articles related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately age eight) includes a special section on...
by WHSA | Jun 23, 2011
ZERO TO THREE has developed Poverty Fact Sheet: Implications for Infants and Toddlers (May 2011) to provide an overview of poverty as it related to the healthy development of very young children. The fact sheet addresses our understanding that one of the most...
by WHSA | Jun 23, 2011
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has developed What State Leaders Should Know about Early Head Start (June 2011), a great primer for state policymakers and leaders to understand Early Head Start. With this report, state leaders will quickly learn about...
by WHSA | Jun 23, 2011
The ZERO TO THREE Policy Center has released A Window to the World: Promoting Early Language and Literacy Development, a set of a new policy brief and video illustrating how early language and literacy development contributes to a child’s success throughout life, as...
