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Exploring Early Childhood Care and Education Levers to Improve Population Health: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Exploring Early Childhood Care and Education Levers to Improve Population Health: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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As an example, Chang described how Nemours-operated hospitals have worked to change child care licensing policy to require healthy eating and physical activity standards. Chang gave an overview of the day's three main sessions on the topics of: 1.
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These include: Too Small to Fail, New York City's First Readers multisector collaboration, the Video Interaction Project at NYU Langone Health, The University of Chicago's Thirty Million Words, Georgia's Talk With Me Baby, and the Reach Out and Read program that has been implemented in all 50 states. Brotman described the family-centered early childhood education program at NYU Langone Health.
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In Orange County, Florida, healthy eating and physical activity were integrated in the early care and education Quality Rating Improvement System pilot. In Jefferson County, Kentucky, George Unseld Early Childhood Center reported that introducing family-style dining at snack time had several positive effects including greater independence and greater frequency of "self-care activities without adult prompts." Sarah LeMoine of Zero to Three described the urgency created by the speed of brain development in young children and described key challenges facing the ECE workforce and field, with a quote from the 2015 Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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Krista Scott of Child Care Aware began by orienting the audience to the federal Child Care Development Block Grant that authorizes the Child Care Development Fund, administered by states, territories, and tribes, and that provides subsidies accompanied by quality and other regulations. Scott then gave a brief overview of the work of her national membership organization for resource and referral agencies that provides consumer education and conducts training and professional development for ECE providers.
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Other remarks by individual workshop participants highlighted the need for cross-sector focus on children with disabilities; the importance of enforcing ECE-related changes in health code (e.g., to integrate oral health requirements or healthy eating and active living supports) ; and the importance of public health interactions with not only the education sector, but also housing, parks, and others.
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PANEL 3: POLICY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF ECE AND HEALTH The day's third and final panel on the policy context that shapes workforce, financing, and other aspects of ECE was moderated by Jacqueline Jones from the Foundation for Child Development. Jones noted that the child care workforce represents multiple workforces given the wide range of training and settings, but there is wide agreement across stakeholders that ECE workforces need to be supported in many ways, including training, competency development, and compensation, to "move children farther along." Jones added that the field has only two certifications: the Child Development Associate (CDA)
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Richards explained that 70 percent of Vermont children under 6 have working parents, but 47 percent of those children lack access to regulated child care and 79 percent lack access to high-quality child care. Given this reality, the fund views ECE as "an innovative platform for community health," and its partners in the state are working to integrate child and family health services with ECE in community settings.
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the importance of ECE to improving population health outcomes. Mary Pittman of the Public Health Institute commented that since the ECE sector is largely a private market, "what if you could braid funds from WIC, from Medicaid, from food stamps, from all of the tax incentives, and have a pool of funds that is set aside to make sure that all of the lowest income families have free access to the best supports in early childhood?
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR EXPLORING EARLY EDUCATION LEVERS TO IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH: A WORKSHOP* Debbie Chang, Nemours; Marquita Davis, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Jennifer Frey, The George Washington University; Jacqueline Jones, Foundation for Child Development; Paula Lantz, University of Michigan; Phyllis Meadows, The Kresge Foundation; Larry Pasti, Forum for Youth Investment; and Valora Washington, Council for Professional Recognition.
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