Webinar: Serving Young Homeless Children under CCDF

September 19, 2016

Join Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) and the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) for a webinar on serving homeless children under the Child Care and Development Fund Program.

Webinar: Serving Young Homeless Children under CCDF

[The webinar has already passed - but you can find resources and a webinar recording here!]

Experts from CCAoA and NCHE will be joined by presenters from the Alabama Departments of Education and Human Resources to discuss the development of a state-level collaboration to serve homeless families under CCDF.

Topics will include:

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  • Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) provisions related to serving young homeless children and their families
  • Requirements for reporting data on young homeless children served by CCDF providers, including understanding the definition of homeless to be used for data collection purposes
  • Provisions related to young homeless children included in the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Program Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (draft regulations)
  • State- and local-level strategies for collaborating to improve services to young homeless children and their families

 

 

Resource: Tip Sheet for Child Care Programs

We are also pleased to share the following Tip Sheet for Child Care programs on serving children and families experiencing homelessness.

Topics: Systems Building, Policy & Advocacy, Health & Safety

Kim Engelman

Written by Kim Engelman

In 2015, Dr. Engelman joined Child Care Aware® of America’s staff team where she uses her expertise and knowledge from preventive medicine and public health, health and human service systems, child development, research and data, clinical psychology and early childhood care and education to advance Child Care Aware® of America’s mission.