Nevada's Child Care and Development Fund Quality Infant/Toddler Earmark:
FY 2006: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark is $662,971.
The funds are used in the following ways to enhance the Nevada infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may be used to support these activities):
- To provide speech consultation, screenings, assessments,
training, and transition services to parents, child care
centers, Early Head Start centers, and others of
developmentally delayed infants and toddlers.
- To provide Child Find presentations to child care centers,
Early Head Start Centers and others to include underserved
areas or populations in rural Nevada to inform them about
services provided by Nevada Early Intervention Services.
- To train child care providers to include children with special
needs.
- To develop site-specific quality improvement plans for ten (10)
sites statewide and assist sites in obtaining needed materials
and equipment to improve the quality of their child care
programs.
- To provide a resource library for child care providers in
southern Nevada that includes developmental books,
activity books, toys, and children’s books specific to the
care and education of infants and toddlers.
- To pilot the T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Nevada program to help providers obtain associate degrees in early childhood with an infant/toddler specialization
in the Reno area only in conjunction with Truckee Meadows
Community College (eventually this program will be offered on a statewide basis).
- To develop an early learning center with infant and toddler care available in
an isolated community 100 miles from any other population
area in Northern Nevada. This was accomplished through a public-private partnership.
- To provide Early Head Start wrap-around services.
- To provide mini-grants for the improvement of infant/toddler
environments and expansion of infant/toddler slots in
licensed child care settings.
FY 2004: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark was $620,509.
The funds were used in the following ways to enhance the Nevada infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may have been used to support these activities):
- Scholarships for providers to attend classes focused on infant toddler care at all community colleges and two universities.
- Expansion/enhancement grants to providers for the purchase of materials and equipment such as cribs.
- Early Head Start wrap-around services.
- Development of an infant checklist to help parents identify quality infant care.
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