ECD_System_and_Core_Elements_Final

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1 Early Learning Health, Mental Health and Nutrition Family Support Special Needs/ Early Intervention State Early Childhood Development System

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2 Early Learning Early care and education opportunities in nurturing environments where children can learn what they need to succeed in school and life.

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3 Early Learning Family Support State Early Childhood Development System

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4 Family Support Economic and parenting supports to ensure that children have nurturing and stable relationships with caring adults.

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5 Early Learning Family Support Special Needs/ Early Intervention State Early Childhood Development System

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6 Special Needs/ Early Intervention Early identification, assessment and appropriate services for children with special health care needs, disabilities, or developmental delays

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7 Early Learning Health, Mental Health and Nutrition Family Support Special Needs/ Early Intervention State Early Childhood Development System

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8 Health, Mental Health, and Nutrition Comprehensive health services that meet children’s vision, hearing, nutrition, behavioral, and oral health as well as medical needs.

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9 Early Learning Health, Mental Health and Nutrition Family Support Special Needs/ Early Intervention State Early Childhood Development System Early care and education opportunities in nurturing environments where children can learn what they need to succeed in school and life. Economic and parenting supports to ensure children have nurturing and stable relationships with caring adults. Early identification, assessment and appropriate services for children with special health care needs, disabilities, or developmental delays Comprehensive health services that meet children’s vision, hearing, nutrition, behavioral, and oral health as well as medical health needs.

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10 Early Learning Health, Mental Health and Nutrition Family Support Special Needs/ Early Intervention State Early Childhood Development System

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11 Early Care and Education Family Support Health, Mental Health, and Nutrition Special Needs/ Early Intervention State Early Childhood Development System

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12 Families Supported and Children Thriving Financing sufficient to assure comprehensive quality services based on standards Core Elements of an Early Childhood Development System Governance to set policy direction for the comprehensive system Provider / practitioner support to offer technical assistance and promote professional development Standards reflect effective practices, programs, & practitioners and are aligned across the system Research & development includes cross-system data, planning, analysis, and evaluation Monitoring to track program performance and results based on standards Communications to inform families, providers, and the public

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13 Alliance for Early Childhood Finance http://www.earlychildhoodfinance.org The Build Initiative http://www.buildinitiative.org The Children’s Project http://www.thechildrensproject.org Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) http://www.clasp.org/publications.php?id=3 Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) http://www.ccsso.org/earlychildhood National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) http://www.nccp.org National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/cc.htm National Governors Association Center for Best Practices http://www.nga.org/center Smart Start National Technical Assistance Center http://www.nationalsmartstart.org/ State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network (SECPTAN) http://www.finebynine.org ZERO TO THREE http://www.zerotothree.org