Monday, September 25

Welcome and Meeting Purpose

• Peter Van Dyck (PPT, 110K)

Building Early Childhood Systems in Different Contexts

• Susan Robison, Connexus
  • State Structures and Strategies (PPT, 146K)
  • resource: "State Human Services Organization: Strategies for Improving Results" Report
• Julia Coffman, Evaluation Exchange
  • Beyond Parallel Play: State and Community Partnerships in Building Early Learning Systems (PPT, 220K)
  • resources:
  • "Six Case Studies of Early Childhood System Building at the State and Local Level" Report (DOC, 230K)
  • "State Summary Matrix" for Six Case Studies Report (DOC, 79K)
  • Build Initiative Web site

Common Purpose: Sharing Responsibility for Child and Family Outcomes

• Lisbeth Schorr, Project on Effective Interventions at Harvard University
  • resource: Pathways Mapping Initiative Web site

Systems Building in Partnership with Community-based Early Childhood Coalitions

• Gretchen Hageman, Iowa ECCS Coordinator
  Shanell Wagler, Community Empowerment Facilitator
  • Building Iowa’s Early Care, Health and Education System (PPT, 160K)
  • resources:
  • Iowa Community Empowerment Web site
  • Early Childhood Iowa Web site
• Danielle Butler, Boulder Consolidated Child Care Program
  Scott Young, El Paso County Consolidated Child Care Program
  • Building a Comprehensive Early Childhood System in Colorado (PPT, 160K)
  • resources:
  • Colorado Consolidated Child Care Program Web site
  • Smart Start Colorado Web site

Envisioning a System of Multidisciplinary Consultation for Early Care and Education

• Judith Meyers, Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut
  Angela Crowley, Yale University School of Nursing
  Grace Whitney, Connecticut Head Start State Collaboration Office
  • Envisioning A System of Multidisciplinary Consultation (PPT, 271K)
  • Systems Slide (PPT, 130K)
  • resources:
  • "Creating a Statewide System of Multi-disciplinary Consultation for Early Care and Education in Connecticut: Executive Summary" (PDF, 225K)
  • Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut Web site
  • "Creating a Statewide System of Multi-disciplinary Consultation for Early Care and Education in Connecticut: Full Report" (PDF, 881K)
  • "Creating a Statewide System of Multi-disciplinary Consultation for Early Care and Education in Connecticut: Symposium Proceedings" (PDF, 561K)

Who Pays First and Who Pays Last Fiscal Interagency Rules

• Kay Johnson, Project THRIVE at the National Center for Children in Poverty
  • Finance Workshop (PPT, 385K)

Systems Building, Case Management and Family Support

• Suzanne Bronheim, National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University
  Joicey Hurth, National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC)
  • Infant Toddler Service Coordination: Empowering Families, Building Systems (PPT, 455K)
  • resources:
  • "Facts About Young Children with Challenging Behaviors" (PDF, 169K)
  • "Fact Sheet on Young Children at Risk" (DOC, 57K)
  • Center on Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning Web site
  • Center for Evidence Based Practice for Young Children with Challenging Behavior Web site
• Carol Hardesty, Family Ties
  • Family Support and Early Childhood (PPT, 723K)

Early Childhood Consultation Strategies Plenary

• Karen Heying, Zero to Three
  • resources:
  • States with Networks of Infant-Toddler Specialists Web site
  • Zero to Three Web site
• Roxane Kaufmann, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
  • Mental Health Consult. in Early Childhood Settings (PPT, 2.91Mb)
  • resources:
  • "Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation" Report (PDF, 770K)
  • Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development Mental Health Project Web site
  • Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Core Competencies/Endorsement Process Web site
  • Vermont's CUPS Program Web site
• Jonathan Kotch, National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants (NTI)
  • Presentation (PPT, 172K)
  • resource: National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants Web site
• Patricia Fahey, Healthy Child Care Consultant Network Support Center (NSC)
  • Presentation (PPT, 85K)
  • resources:
  • Healthy Child Care Consultant Network Support Center Web site
  • The Influence of Child Care Health Consultants in Promoting Children’s Health and Well-being: A Report on Selected Resources (PDF, 1.14Mb)

Sustaining Commitment and Momentum: Systems Building and Transitions

• Maureen Greer, Indiana ECCS
  • Sustaining Commitment and Momentum (PPT, 2.0Mb)
• Larraine Clayton, Idaho ECCS
  • Moving Forwarding During Times of Trans. (PPT, 990K)
• Bethany Geldmaker, Virginia ECCS
  • Governance Workshop (PPT, 175K)

Promising Mental Health Consultation Models

• Deborah Perry, The Women’s and Children’s Health Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University
  • ECMH Consultation: Promising Practices in Preventing Preschool Expulsion (PPT, 525K)
• Sarah Hoover, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
  • Mental Health Consultation in Early Care and Education: Colorado’s Landscape and Opportunities (PPT, 494K)
  • resource: Project Bloom Web site
• Marybeth Jackson, Kentucky Department of Public Health
  • ECMH Consultation: A Collaborative Approach (PPT, 2.04Mb)

Building Partnerships with Foundations

• Teri Pinney, Colorado ECCS
  Susan Steele, Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation
  • Building Partnerships with Foundations (PPT, 534K)

The Strengthening Families through Early Care and Education Approach: State Perspectives

• Martha Reeder, Arkansas ECCS
  • Strengthening Families through Early Care and Education (PPT, 1.76Mb)
  • resource: Crosswalk Between NAYEC Accreditation and Strengthening Families (XLS, 101K)
• Shirley Pittz, Alaska ECCS
  • Strengthening Families Alaska (PPT, 214K)
  • resource: Strengthening Families Through Early Care and Education Web site

Tuesday, September 26

Financing and Systems Development

• Kay Johnson, Project Thrive
  • Fiscal Analysis and Children’s Budgets to Advance State ECCS Initiatives (PPT, 2.1Mb)
  • Resource: Developing Fiscal Analyses and Children’s Budgets to Support ECCS Web site
• Helene Stebbins, The Finance Project
  • Calculating the Cost of Quality Care (PDF, 213K)
  • resource: Calculating the Cost of Quality Early Care and Education Report (PDF, 1.18Mb)

Lessons Learned From Reorganizing Children’s Services

• Justine Strickland, Georgia
  • Presentation (PPT, 7.9Mb)
• Sue Shepard, Vermont
  • Lessons Learned From Reorganizing Children's Services in Vermont (PPT, 575K)

An Overview of the NTI Training Curriculum and Examples of Implementation in State Training Programs

• Tobie Barton and Sandra Cianciolo, NTI
  • Child Care Consultation (PPT, 650K)
• Linda Satkowiak, Qualistar Early Learning
  • Child Care Health Consultation in Colorado (PPT, 421K)
• Jackie Quirk, North Carolina Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center
  • North Carolina Child Care Health Consultation Training Curriculum (PPT, 198K)
• Mary Huber, New York State Department of Health
  • Healthy Child Care New York to Healthy Children New York (PPT, 980K)
• Abbey Alkon, California Child Care Health Program
  • California Childcare Health Program (PPT, 699K)

Tools for Strategic Fiscal Planning: Children's Budgets and More

• Sharon Deich, The Finance Project
  • Adding It Up: Tracking Investments in Children and Youth (PPT, 270K)
• Geoff Nagle, Louisiana ECCS
  • Using an Early Childhood Budget to Move the ECCS Initiative Forward (PPT, 223K)

Training Those Who Work With Young Children in Early Childhood Mental Health and Social and Emotional Development

• Paula Zeanah, Tulane University
  • Training Those Who Work With Young (PPT, 590K)

Project THRIVE Discussion Group

• resource: Project Thrive Web site

Maximizing Leadership From Children's Cabinets and Advisory Boards

• Geoff Nagle, Louisiana ECCS
  • Louisiana's Children’s Cabinet and the ECCS Grant Initiative (PPT, 470K)
• Loretta Fuddy and Keiko Nitta, Hawaii ECCS
  • Maximizing Leadership Commitment for Hawaii's Early Childhood System (PPT, 270K)
• Lorrie Grevstad, Washington ECCS
  • Presentation (PPT, 730K)

Successful Child Care Health Consultation Models

• Patricia Cole, Indiana Child Care Health Consultant Program
  • Indiana Child Care Health Consultant Program: A Model for Balancing Two Systems (PPT, 170K)
• Sharon Douglas Ware, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
  • Successful Child Care Health Consultation Models: North Carolina (PPT, 390K)
• Patricia Fahey and Malia Ramler, NSC
  • State CCHC Profiles (PPT, 180K)

Developing Public Private Entities to Support Early Childhood Systems Building

• Joan Blough, Michigan ECCS
  • ECCS Blueprint for the Great Start System (PPT, 250K)
  • resources:
  • Template for Early Childhood System Assessment (DOC, 237K)
  • Michigan's Great Start Web site
• Nancy VonBargen, Smart Start Oklahoma
  • Presentation (PPT, 1.3Mb)
  • resource: Oklahoma Smart Start Web site

Empowering Families

• Suzanne Gottlieb, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  Kate Roper, Massachusetts ECCS
  • Presentation (PPT, 80K)
  • handout: MECCS Family Support Pilot Logic Model (DOC, 36K)

Resources for Strengthening Families

• Judy Langford, Center for the Study of Social Policy
  • Presentation (PPT, 1.43Mb)
  • resources:
  • Strengthening Families Web site
  • Protective Factors Literature Review (PDF, K)
• Marlo Nash, United Way of America
  • Born Learning Overview (PPT, 2.1Mb)
  • resource: Born Learning Web site
• Lorrie Grevstad, Washington ECCS
  • Kids Matter Improving Outcomes for Children (PPT, 930K)
  • resource: Kids Matter Web site