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Identifies cross-disciplinary competencies for practitioners working with infants and toddlers that support effective practices across these disciplines.

System Change

Explains how a child’s early development from birth through age 8 is critical to making an effective transition into elementary school and for long-term academic achievement.

Early Care and Education | Education

Discusses the science of early childhood development, the impact of early adversity on children’s development, and the effectiveness of early childhood programs, among other topics.

Early Care and Education | Behavioral Health/Mental Health

Reports on research conducted by the FrameWorks Institute from 2008 to 2010 on how Americans think about children’s mental health.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health

Reviews some of the strategies used by states to address issues related to infant and early childhood mental health. It provides recommendations for nurturing change in state-level infant and early childhood mental health supports and services.

Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Social and Emotional Well-Being | System Change

Reviews what has been accomplished to date in the development of the “family voice” in all the child-serving systems—not just the substance abuse system but also the systems of mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, trauma support, education, and primary care.

Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | System Change

Offers valuable information from the BUILD Initiative for those seeking to build early learning systems, based upon fiscal analysis and the latest research and evidence of the need for and value of additional investments in early childhood services

Education | System Change

Offers an overview of critical early childhood system components according to their evidence base, status of development, exemplary state actions in building the component, and exemplary state actions in linking each component with other components.

Early Care and Education | System Change

Outlines how health, early learning and development, family leadership, and supportive service delivery systems contribute to the central outcome of thriving children and families.

System Change

Provides an overview of the evidence about the effectiveness of home visiting in preventing child maltreatment, identifies research gaps and discusses implications for key stakeholders.

Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Home Visiting

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