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Child Care Health Consultants (CCHC) can help programs adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us to review the latest guidance as well as in-person and virtual implementation strategies to help staff, children, and families stay healthy.

Topics for the COVID 19 Response include:

• Current guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Implementation strategies to minimize the risk of virus transmission
• Supportive approaches to working with staff, children, and families
• COVID-19 resources available on the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center

Target Audience

• Child care health consultants (CCHC)
• Head Start health services staff and other service area managers
• Nurses working with any early childhood program
• Child Care resource and referral agency personnel

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Join us for a National Issues>State Action webinar to discuss the findings of the Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood (RAPID-EC) project with University of Oregon Psychologist Dr. Phil Fisher, the project’s director, and Dr. Joan Lombardi, who chairs the National Advisory Group for the project and is former deputy secretary for Early Childhood Development at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

They’ll share the clear — and alarming — findings of the project and discuss it means for states’ early childhood policy agendas.

RAPID-EC has been surveying a national representative sample of families with young children (0-5) since April 2020 to gather clear and actionable information on the needs, health promoting behaviors, and well-being of children and their caregivers during the pandemic.

On this webinar, Dr. Fisher and Dr. Lombardi will share the story about children and families that’s emerging from the data, resources from the project that can enhance state advocates and policymakers, and ideas about what policy responses are needed to respond to the toll the pandemic is taking on these families.

Watch webinar online [53:12]

Access webinar slides [PDF]

During this global pandemic, child care has been recognized as essential, yet most states have failed to enact policies to support and early educators themselves. Reform is needed now more than ever.

Join the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment and guest speakers to learn how to use the new 2020 Early Childhood Workforce Index. Take action to improve working conditions for early educators and strengthen our early care and education system for children and families.

Presenters

• Kyra Swenson, Infant/toddler Teacher & Co-founder of Wisconsin Early Childhood Action Needed
• Jen Horwitz, Policy & Research Director, Vermont Let’s Grow Kids
• Dr. Lea Austin, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
• Dr. Caitlin McLean, Senior Research Specialist, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
• Krista Olson, Research & Policy Associate, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

What is the Index?

Coming February 23, 2021 - The 2020 Early Childhood Workforce Index provides a data-rich look at state-based policies and conditions for the early care and education workforce.

This third edition contains:

Individual state profiles;

• An interactive U.S. map and detailed tables on wages, state workforce policies, and initiatives;
• Spotlights on state responses to the COVID-19 pandemic;
• Policy recommendations on how to bolster the safety and livelihoods of early educators during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond; and
• An advocacy toolkit with policy guidelines and framing language.