Advancing Policy Advocacy
Data Challenges and Opportunities
Establishing a CT Early Childhood Funding Bundle Framework
Young Child Development Screenings
2025 CT Medicaid Developmental Screening Canary Report
CT 359 Policy Advisory - A CT Early Childhood Funding Framework
CT 359 Policy Advisory - B to 3 early intervention
CT 359 Policy Advisory - Family Bridge UWH
CT 359 Policy Advisory - Focus on Perimatal Health and Mental Health
CT 359 Policy Advocacy - Developmental and Maternal Screening
CT Policy Advisory - Two-Site Replication PN-3 Baby Bundle Framework
Birth to Three Early Intervention
Early Care and Education
Building an Early Childhood Systems Framwork
Framework Overview Presentations
Ready by Five & Fine by Nine Looking Back
Strengthening Community Collaboratives
Bridgeport’s Baby Bundle
Policy Advisories
Advancing a PN-3 Framework: A Two Site Baby Bundle Replication
Building a Holistic Early Childhood Investment Framework
Cost and Outcomes for Family Bridge: CT Universal Home Visiting at Birth
Developmental and Maternal Screenings: CT’s Early Warning and Support System
Improving Early Intervention: The Birth to Three Missing Children Problem
Perinatal Maternal Health and Mental Health: Challenges and Disparities
Ready by Five & Fine by Nine 2006 to 2023
Recognizing the need to look back in order to move forward, a small guide team of CT 359 members sought to identify where we have achieved or fallen short the goal articulated by the first Early Childhood Cabinet in 2006 that all children are on target in their first five years, enter kindergarten ready and be reading well in the third grade. We discovered that, while many of the state’s young children are doing well, many more – as many as one in two – are not. This picture of children’s development was true in 2006 and remains true in 2024. Read the report.
Promoting Equitable Pandemic Recovery for Hartford’s Young Children
Research on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the early care and education experiences and the development of young children in Hartford, and the supports that child care providers and families need. Read it here.
Early Childhood Briefs
In the News
CT Mirror Viewpoints
Opinion: CT’s early childhood data is a mess. Use ARPA funds to fix it (May 3)
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Opinion: Looking back to move CT children forward (April 16)
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