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| |  |  |  ECE News Archives $0$0 $0$0$0 $0$0$0 Disclaimer: The ECE Committee does not endorse or directly support any information,issue, agency, or event provided through the What's New updates. The information provided is intended to inform and guide issues associated with agencies providing high quality early childhood education services that focus on ensuring that all children in Long Beach grow up healthy,safe, and educated.$0$0 $0$0$0 ECE NEWS ARCHIVES$0$0 $0$0$0 Gov. Brown Vetoes Family Child Care Provider Unionization Bill$0$0 Today,Governor Jerry Brown vetoed AB 101 (Assembly Speaker Perez and Senate Pro Tem Steinberg), the last-minute measure which would have allowed the organization of and collective bargaining for licensed and license-exempt family child care home providers. Read More$0$0 $0$0$0 Have you applied for a child care license and are still waiting for a decision from the Community Care Licensing Division? If you answered yes to this question and want help to speed up the process, contact Public Counsel for free legal help. Read More.$0$0 $0$0$0 California Association for the Education of Young Children is pleased to announce that the Awards & Grants applications are now available. Awards & Grants are open to all current members of CAEYC and are designed to promote professional growth and educational support. This year CAEYC is offering 3 (three) types of Awards and Grants that will assist up to 8 (eight) recipients who will have the opportunity to attend conferences, purchase resources for program development and/or pay for their education.$0$0 CAEYC President's Award$0$0 CAEYC Annual Conference Award$0$0 Beth A. Lake Award$0$0 $0$0$0 Ready. Set.Grow. Is a campaign created by First 5 LA to support Los Angeles County parents as they raise their children to be healthy, safe and ready to learn. From tips and resources, to free events and discount coupons. Check their website for more information http://www.readysetgrowla.org/$0$0 $0$0$0 For agencies serving families in need of resources in financial, economic hardships. http://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Information_Notices.htm $0$0 $0$0$0 KidsData.org is your gateway to comprehensive data about the health and well being of children across California. The site offers data for every city, county, and school district in the state, making it easy to monitor trends and pinpoint disparities. See Long Beach data.$0$0$0$0$0$0OUT OF THE BOX TRAINING KITS AVAILABLE FOR ECE COMMITTEE MEMBERS$0$0A new library of Out of the Box Training kits has been developed for use by ECE Committee members. Each kit is a comprehensive training packet that includes target audience, teacher skill level, children’s age level, time line, expected outcomes, preparation, strategy for training, implementation, follow-up activities for teachers and administrators/directors, learning assessment, evaluation/further needs assessment and next steps. Read More$0$0 $0$0Engaging the Business Community in Advocacy$0$0When you think of people who would be natural allies in advocating for the well-being of very young children, who do you think of? Almost certainly you think of other professionals in the early childhood field. But do you ever think about business people? Probably not, and yet members of the business community can be among the most influential and supportive allies of the early childhood field. So how can we get business leaders involved in our advocacy efforts on behalf of infants and toddlers? The Pew Center on the States created a variety of resources to help advocates engage the business community, including Mobilizing Business Champions for Children: A Guide for Advocates, and a report on business leaders making a difference for children across the country. For additional ideas on partnering with the business community, you can also checkout this article from the ZERO TO THREE Policy Network.$0$0$0$0$0Download October's Developmental Milestone Advocacy Calendar$0$0One of the greatest resources available to you as an advocate is other advocates. Connecting with like-minded professionals, parents and policymakers in your community will allow you to draw on each individual's skills and strengths and to create a strong, united and clear message on behalf of infants and toddlers. This month's advocacy challenge is to invite a speaker from a local early childhood advocacy organization to speak at your workplace. Download October's Developmenta lMilestone Advocacy Calendar Now!$0$0 $0$0Federal Policy Update$0Infants and Toddlers in the Child Welfare System: Congress Answers the Call Back in May, a group of concerned children’s organizations issued A Call to Action on Behalf ofMaltreated Infants and Toddlers, urging policymakers and practitioners at all levels to adopt a developmental approach to caring for babies in the child welfare system. Last week, Congress answered the call. Both House and Senate passed and sent to the President the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act (H.R. 2883, S. 1542), reauthorizing federal child welfare programs. One provision requires states to describe in their child welfare plans how they address the developmental needs of young children in their care—a first for federal legislation. It is important that states view this new provision as a prime opportunity to reexamine the care they provide to the youngest, most vulnerable children. We urge states to use the Call to Action as a resource to think through the steps of a developmental approach to child welfare services. For ideas on getting started, please read our Federal Policy Baby Blog. $0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0Best Start Central Long Beach Comes to Consensus: The Best Start Central Long Beach Community met on Thursday, September 22, 2011, at the First Congregational Church. Each goal area workgroup reported on their accomplishments to date and participants had the opportunity to provide feedback. The Levels of Engagement for Best Start were discussed in more detail including the framework for the Partnership and Leadership Groups. The majority of the meeting focused on a training on group decision-making methods. At the end of the training, the group chose “consensus” as the preferred decision-making method. A complete summary of the Community Partnership Meeting will be available on the website soon and copies will be available at the next meeting. An Ad Hoc Committee was developed to help build the framework for the Partnership and Leadership Groups. The first Ad Hoc Committee meeting is Thursday, October 6th from1:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. If you are interested in joining the committee, please RSVP no later than Monday, October 3rd. Goal area workgroups will resume after this committee has completed its work. We will continue our work on formalizing the partnership. To ensure your space, please RSVP by Monday, October 24th online at CLB1.eventbrite.com or by calling (213) 482-9426. www.beststartla.org$0$0$0 $0ECHO Parenting and Education - Parent Educator Certification Program Now Accepting Applications: This program is designed for people who are interested in teaching Echo Parenting and Education published Nonviolent Parenting curriculum. Part one is the Nonviolent Parenting Educator Training, part two is the Parenting Educator Certification Program. Read More $0$0$0$0$0$0Best Start Central Long Beach Has Vision:The Best Start Central Long Beach Community met on Thursday, August 25,2011 at the First Congregational Church. Each Best Start Goal Workgroup reported accomplishments and next steps from their August meeting,encouraging community members to join. The community assessment teamled participants through a detailed set of activities that identifiedand mapped resources in Central Long Beach to support the communityassessment process. Read More$0$0New Study Shows Early Care and Education Industry Strengthens Entire California Economy:A new study conducted by The Center for Labor Research and Educationexamines how early child care and education industry alone provides thestate with 200,000 jobs and high tax revenue. Furthermore, access tohigh-quality early education programs benefit, parents and futuregenerations. Read More$0$0Zero to Three: Fellowship Program: TheFellowship promotes a wider flow of knowledge about new advances inscience, brings infant-toddler professionals into a professional homewhere all disciplines are welcome, and broadens professionals'repertoires of leadership skills for our increasingly complex world.The260-plus fellows have gone on to develop high-impact programs thatimprove the lives of infants and young children in communities aroundthe country. ReadMore$02011-2012 Executive Directors Leadership Institute Now Accepting Applications:Nonprofit organizations depend on Executive Directors to be anever-stronger manager, strategic thinker, and inspirational leader. TheWells Fargo Executive Directors Leadership Institute (EDLI) is a uniqueprogram that provides practical teachings, customized executivecoaching, and support of colleagues so that you are even better able toguide your organization toward success and sustainability. ExecutiveService Corps and Third Sector Company are pleased to partner on thisexciting opportunity for Executive Directors. Applications for the WellsFargo Executive Directors Leadership Institute are now being accepted. Download Application$0$0Re-Architecting Children's Advocacy - A Briefing on the Children's Movement of California: TheChildren's Movement of California is providing those who want toimprove education and children's health with the missing source of powerthey so clearly need to do so. By connecting the vast support thatexists for children to a nonpartisan children's policy agenda andrespected representation on the ground in Sacramento, The Children'sMovement is growing and changing the game.Register to hear Ted Lempert,President of Children Now, on October 6 from8:00am to 10:00am at TheCalifornia Community Foundation's office in Los Angeles discussstrategic genesis of The Children's Movement, The Children's Agenda forCalifornia and more. Space is limited. Register here$0$0$0Democrats Push Bill to Unionize Home Child Care Providers: Democratic legislative leaders have rolled out a last-minute bill that would allow unions to organize child care providers who work out of the home. The measure, by Assembly Speaker John A. Perez andSenate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg,would give family child careproviders the right to organize and participate in collectivebargaining. It would affect both licensed family child care providers,who can care for no more than 14 children in their home, and certainlicense-exempt providers, including grandparents, relatives andneighbors receiving state subsidies to care for one family. Read More$0$0Census 2010 - Where Are We Now?: Census 2010data are now available on HealthyCity.org!TheUS Census Bureau has recently released 2010 Census Summary File 1 forCalifornia which provides the most detailed counts available so far fromthe2010 Census, including cross-tabulations of age, sex, households,families,relationship to householder, housing units, detailed race andHispanic or Latino origin groups,and group quarters. These statisticsare available for a variety of geographic areas, with most tablesavailable down to the block or census tract level. See Data Here $0$0 $0$0$0$0Enroll NOW for CDF210A offered during Fall 2011: LongBeach City College is offering the Family Development Credentialprogram. This prestigious credential can be yours with the completion ofsix units in family development (CDF 210A & CDF 210B). Fall 210Aclasses start October 1 –November 5, 2011. Read More$0$0 -If he were just starting out as a reporter, Thomas Friedman would wantto be covering education -- the area most vital to our national security-- he writes in an opinion piece in The New York Times. He quotesPresident Obama, who on November4 cited a military study that concluded75 percent of young Americans between the ages of 17 to 24 are unable toenlist in the military today because they have failed to graduate fromhigh school, have a criminal record, or are physically unfit. Read More $0 - Last month, Californians elected Jerry Brown for governor. Although Election Day is over, our work continues. Ashe begins to formulate his policy agenda, please remind him thathigh-quality early childhood education is the foundation for a brightfuture for our children and a key component in the long-term growth ofour state. Read More$0$0 - Arecent paper from Johns Hopkins University reviews and summarizesevaluations of 28 pre-k curricula,and uses the findings to rate thecurricula's relative impact on learning. The authors employed a range ofratings, from "strong evidence of effectiveness" to "limited evidenceof effectiveness." They also included a category for insufficientevidence. Read More$0$0 - These math workbooks are available at no-cost through the Long Beach Unified School District. Available while supplies last! Read More$0$0LongBeach Community Action Partnership (LBCAP) was awarded a $17 millionenergy contract specifically targeted to assist low-income families wholive in Long Beach and throughout surrounding counties.Read More$0$0 $0$0$0$0The California Preschool Energy Efficiency Program(CPEEP), fundedby Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, provides acomprehensive energy audit and conducts installations FREE of charge. Read More$0$0$0$0$0 - A new report, Investing in Children: New Directions in Federal Preschool and Early Childhood Policyfrom the Brookings Institute and the National Institute of EarlyEducation Research, discusses new directions for the nation’s earlychildhood policies. CLICK HERE to read the full report.$0$0 $0$0$0$0 $0$0The following links provide flyers for parents about the Earned Income Tax Credit. Taxseason is quickly approaching, and as 2010 comes to a close, this isuseful information for parents to begin planning for and thinking about. Read More$0$0$0New Research: 2010 California County Scorecard of Children's Well-Being - No two places in the state are alike in terms of the condition of their children, according to Children Now’s 2010 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being, a new online research and advocacy tool. The Scorecardmeasures the core components of child well-being across California’s 58counties and provides a visual fingerprint for each county’s results.The uniqueness of each fingerprint is clearly evident. The Scorecardprovides complete, individual county profiles that include currentstandings, trend data, and breakdowns by race/ethnicity for everyindicator. Indicators cover children’s health, education and safety,providing a comprehensive picture of children’s interrelateddevelopmental needs. Read More$0$0$0A Voice for Long Beach Children History Project - You are invited to help A Voice for Long Beach Children create the publication, LONG BEACH HISTORY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS by collecting information about early childhood programs in the greater Long Beach area. Theirgoal is to prepare a summary including the names of teachers,directors, and community leaders who have had a part in the history ofnursery schools, childcare centers, child development programs, andparent education programs for the past century. TheHistory Project is a collaborative effort between A Voice for Long BeachChildren and Long Beach Day Nursery which will celebrate its 100thanniversary in 2012. The publication will be presented at a receptionin January 2012 at the Long Beach Historical Society as part of anextensive display by Long Beach Day Nursery. Please print the attached information form, complete, and send in as requested. View Form $0$0Sesame Workshop Survey - Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street and The Electric Company,incorporates feedback from educators, parents, and children ineverything that we do. In this survey, they ask about media andmaterials you use with the children you educate.They are interested in hearing from providers who work with children ages 3 and 4. Thisis NOT an evaluation of you or your school, center, or program. Theyare interested in learning more about the different programs andmaterials that different childcare providers use to educate children andhow Sesame Workshop might best create materials to support providersand children. You may have taken a similar survey from them about ayear ago. They are updating their knowledge base as they know thatthings can change in a year! They do NOT ask for your name or email (orthe name of your center, program, or school) at any point in thissurvey. It is completely anonymous. Please feel free to forward it alongto other providers who might be interested in giving their feedback aswell. Please contact Jennifer Kotler at Jennifer.Kotler@sesameworkshop.org if you have any questions. The survey can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sesamestreetsurvey. $0. $0New Website from the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) - Now introducing Wonderopolis™. NCFL’slatest contribution to family literacy, Wonderopolis is a place whereparents nurture a brighter world for their children through discovery,creativity, learning, and imagination. Visit http://wonderopolis.org/ Read More$0$0New Report from the National Center for Children in Poverty - Improving Supports for Parents of Young Children: State-level Initiatives by Louisa Higgins, Shannon Stagman, and Sheila Smith. Moststates are working to strengthen supports for young children’s healthand development across the different systems that affect family andchild well-being. Increasingly, efforts to support parenting are animportant focus of this work. While states’ strategies are varied, moststrive to provide families with information and access to programs thathelp parents keep their children safe and healthy while nurturing theirdevelopment and promoting their school readiness. Thisissue brief presents information that states can use as they addressthese challenges and opportunities. The report presents highlights fromresearch that links parenting to child outcomes, questions to guidedecisions about programs that could address different families’ needs ina state or territory, efforts by four states to establish specificgoals related to parenting supports and to make progress towardachieving those goals, and recommendations for state-level work in thisarea that reflect current research and states’ experience. Click here for the full report. $0$0The Berkeley Center on Health, Economic, and Family Securityissued a policy brief (September 2010) on Cutting Childcare Out fromUnder Californians. This informative policy brief provides informationrelevant to current California budget cuts as they affect childcareproviders, families, and the economy. Childcare Cuts$0$0$0“Ready, Set, Go! Why Business Should Support Early Childhood Education,”ICW’s newest publication, sheds light on the tremendous impact thatearly childhood education has on the national economic security and theviability of the American dream. Focusing heavily on the scientificresearch that has proven early childhood education to be profoundlyinfluential in health and well-being as well as economic vitality forindividuals and society, ICW attests that the investment and support onthe part of American businesses is imperative to the success of theAmerican workforce. Download document at: http://icw.uschamber.com/publication/ready-set-go-why-business-should-support-early-childhood-education $0$0$0$0$0$0$0Advocacy Alert: State Schools Chief Jack O’Connell Calls on Governor to be Honest with Families about the Lack of Support for Child Care Services - SACRAMENTO— State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell today called on Governor Schwarzenegger to tell the truth to working families who are impacted by his veto of the CalWORKS Stage 3 program. Read More$0$0$0$0RALLY IN LONG BEACH! Rally to Restore Stage 3 Childcare Funding - Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach. Click here for full details. Join working parents, childcare providers, advocates, and help demand that Governor Schwarzenegger restore Stage 3 childcare funding immediately!$0$0$0$0Childcare Funding - This proposal would restore state funding for childcare. Upset that the governor vetoed $256 million in childcare money for the poor, Assembly Speaker John A. Perez announces a proposal to restore funding until a new chief executive takes office in January. Click here to read the full article from the Los Angeles Times. $0$0$0$0First 5 LA is Searching for Childcare Provider - First 5 LA is looking for agencies to provide childcare at their upcoming community meetings throughout the next year. If your agency is interested in working with First 5 LA, please review these legal requirements first (Click here). If you are interested in providing childcare services on an ongoing basis, you should also apply to be a vendor for First 5 LA. For more information, please contact Jenny Chheang at jchheang@first5la.org or by telephone at (213) 482-7559. For First 5 LA. $0$0$0$0$0The Kindergarten Readiness Act Signed into Law - On September 30, Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 1381 (Simitian, Steinberg), the Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010, enacting a historic reform that will help ensure that 120,000 more children each year are better prepared to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. View Fact Sheet $0$0Early Dental Care Project - The Children’s Dental Health Clinic is providing an Early Dental Care Project. Please help spread the word about the project that is trying to increase the numbers of young children receiving a dental checkup and education on starting early to take care of those baby teeth! They may only be baby teeth, but they are important for many reasons - speech development, spacing for permanent teeth, nutrition/ability to chew, and even ability and willingness to smile! A child with a toothache doesn't eat well, doesn't sleep well, and doesn't do as well in school. They're going to have those baby teeth for quite a few years - so it's important to keep them healthy. Did you know the recommendation is now for children to have their first dental checkup at one year of age? We have a great resource in Long Beach in the Children's Dental Health Clinic, so please help spread the word. Please see the attached flyers that may be used for posting and distribution. If your agency is interested in receiving posters, please contact Pam Shaw, City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services, Nursing Services Officer at (562) 570-4208 or via email at Pamela.Shaw@longbeach.gov. View Flyer $0$0Childcare Healthline Closure - The Child Care Healthline, a project of the California Childcare Health Program, was eliminated in the State budget signed Friday, October 8, 2010. The Healthline project was funded by California’s Child Development Division in the Department of Education. Since 1987, the Healthline staff enjoyed serving the childcare community to improve health, safety, wellness, and inclusion for children and families in California. Your questions, comments, feedback, and perspectives have helped to create a vital collection of resources that promote and protect the health and safety of young children in out-of-home care. They are grateful to their partners and wish to extend thanks and appreciation to all of their collaborators. Materials on the CCHP website will continue to be available, but at this time there are no funds to update the resources. Please continue to use their training curricula, illness sheets, fact sheets for families, health and safety notes, posters, forms, and Child Care Health Connections newsletters at http://www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org/$0$0$0$0Advocacy Alert: As the state budget impasse continues, California’s children, families and communities are suffering. The lack of a budget has meant delayed payments to child development programs from the state, and having already exhausted reserves and credit options, these programs are facing closure or have already closed. At a time when families are already struggling, this delay of payments to California’s early care and education programs further weakens the social safety net for our children and the fundamental infrastructure of the state’s early learning system. Visit the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network’s Campaign to Save Child Care web section for more ways to take action. $0$0$0$0The California Department of Education, Child Development Division announces the release of new Desired Results Developmental Profiles - IT for infants and toddlers 0-3, PS for ages 3-5, and SA for school-age children K-age 12. These materials may be accessed at http://www.wested.org/desiredresults/training/form_drdp.htm and through http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/DRDPforms.asp$0$0$0$0Whooping Cough (Pertussis) and Flu Alerts- The California Department of Public Health is alerting child care providers and parents of the new Whooping Cough epidemic, as well asproviding alerts for the upcoming flu season. You can use these flyers to inform your staff and families of how they can protect themselves andothers against these difficult illnesses. Pertussis Flyer. Pertussis Alert Flyer.$0$0$0$0The Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010, or SB 1381 is on the Governor's desk for signature! With a bipartisan vote, both the Assembly and Senate have passed SB 1381(Simitian, Steinberg). The bill now moves to the governor’s desk.California’s children begin kindergarten at a younger age than children in almost any other state, often before they are developmentally ready to meet the challenges of kindergarten. We are one of only four states that allow children as young as 4 years old to attend kindergarten; at the same time, California has some of the highest academic standards for what we expect children to learn in kindergarten classrooms. SB 1381will change the kindergarten entry date in California from Dec. 2 to Sept. 1, so children enter kindergarten at age 5. Without any additional funds, SB 1381 would also create a transitional kindergarten for those 4 year olds who would otherwise be enrolled in kindergarten.Transitional kindergarten would be funded with the money that would have been spent on regular kindergarten for those 4 year olds with fall birthdays. This program would enable 120,000 children to develop the increased cognitive, social and emotional skills they need for success in school. We also know that in delivering on its promise to better prepare our children for success in kindergarten and beyond, the transitional kindergarten program should provide a developmentally appropriate experience for our youngest kindergartners. For more details, please visit http://www.preschoolcalifornia.org/SB1381.$0$0$0$0Long Beach City College's popular Family Development Credential is being offered again!Classes start October 2, 2010 on the LAC campus of LBCC. Please refer interested candidates to Luanne Mauro-Atkinson for more details or registration information. Contact information is included on the following credential flyer.$0$0$0$0LBCC 5-year Educational Master Plan (EMP). Long Beach City College is beginning to revise and update its 5-year EMP. One important step of this process is to receive input from the community we serve. LBCC is reaching out to the campus community and everyone in Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill and Avalon in order to receive feedback on community priorities for the college. We encourage you to complete the survey at the links below: English: http://lbccdl.survey-english.sgizmo.com Espanol: http://lbccdl.survey-spanish.sgizmo.com$0$0$0The Children First Act of 2010 News Detail$0$0An updated ECE legislative matrix is available and lists active bills pertaining to childcare and development under consideration by the California legislature $0$0$0News Detail$0$0Just released by Children Now: California's Early Learning and Development System: A Review of Funding Streams and Programs.$0$0$0News Detail$0$0Preschool California Advocacy Alert -urging support for AB 2592 for the creation of an Early Learning Quality Rating Scale (QRS)$0$0$0News Detail$0$0California Advances Comprehensive Early Learning System Reform $0$0$0News Detail$0$0High-Quality Early Learning: A Proven Investment in School Success $0$0$0News Detail$0$0California Budget Alert$0$0$0News Detail$0$0$0What is the Latest Research on Safe Sleep for Babies?$0$0Reducing the Risk of SIDS in Child Care Evaluation Project$0$0Proyecto de Evaluación de Cuidado de Niños para reducir el Riesgo de SIDS$0$0Economic Model of Quality Early Care & Education: What Does Quality Cost? $0$0Use and Application of Best Practices Among High Quality Early Child Care Providers in the City of Long Beach June 2008$0$0ECE Presentation to Mayor Beverly O'Neill$0$0$0$0 |
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