Family-Centered Coaching Toolkit and Resources

Promising Practices: Child Care and Workforce System Integration and Program Sustainability
As part of their system development activities, many Strengthening Working Families Initiative (SWFI) grantees are exploring and forming partnerships ...
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April 30, 2019
Aspen Early Childhood and Health Forum: Aligning and Streamlining Systems to Secure Better Outcomes for Families
In the summer of 2018, Ascend gathered more than two dozen state and national policy experts and other leaders in the fields of health and early learn...
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February 13, 2019
Building Pathways for Parents: Innovation for Work and Education
This presentation from Community Action Partnership shares stories from two organizations, Parents in Community Action (PICA) in Minnesota and Communi...
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February 13, 2019
Opening Doors for Young Parents: Kids Count Policy Report
Young parents face a wide range of challenges – from housing instability and health concerns to interruptions in education and limited employmen...
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December 31, 2018
Whole Family Building Blocks: Attending to Organizational Culture and Systems
This presentation from Community Action Partnership shares the building blocks agencies need to successfully shift their organizational culture to one...
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October 31, 2018
Promoting Parents’ Social Capital to Increase Children’s Attendance in Head Start: Evidence from an Experimental Intervention
Improving children’s attendance is a high priority for Head Start and other early childhood education programs serving low-income children. We condu...
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April 26, 2018