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Pathways to Prosperity: Promoting Economic Security for Families with Infants and Toddlers
Today, the Center for Law and Social Policy in partnership with ZERO TO THREE is releasing the Pathways to Prosperity: Promoting Economic Security for Families with Infants and Toddlers [[link removed]] report. The report was derived from the October 2021 Building Strong Foundations for Families project Economic Security Convening [[link removed]] .
Building Strong Foundations for Families [[link removed]] is a joint project between the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and ZERO TO THREE (ZTT). The two organizations collectively developed the Building Strong Foundations Framework [[link removed]] to promote federal and state policies that comprehensively address the needs of infants, toddlers, and their families. The Framework builds on and connects to the policy and advocacy efforts of both organizations and focuses on four core areas:
*
Strong
parents
—
parent
support
services
and
developmentally
appropriate
child
welfare
systems
*
High-quality
child
care
and
early
education
opportunities
—
child
care
across
a
range
of
settings
and
early
intervention
*
Healthy
bodies,
healthy
minds,
healthy
parents
—
health
insurance,
health
and
mental
health
care,
and
nutrition
support
*
Economically
stable
families
—
cash
assistance,
paid
family
and
medical
leave,
housing,
and
education
and
training.
The document includes emergent themes from the convening, session details, and resources to provide additional guidance to early childhood stakeholders on supporting the economic security of families. Those themes are:
1.
The
importance
of
focusing
on
both
the
“whole
child”
and
“whole
family”
for
addressing
the
economic
security
of
families;
2.
The
need
to
understand
our
past
and
create
the
future
so
that
the
next
generation
of
policies
and
practices
are
anti-racist
and
promote
equity;
and
3.
Acknowledgement
that
the
field
of
early
childhood
can
play
an
important
role
in
creating
pathways
to
prosperity
by
building
relationships
and
working
in
collaboration
with
those
focused
more
directly
on
economic
justice
opportunities
for
families.
For more information on the convening or the document's contents, please contact CLASP's Tiffany Ferrette [email protected] [[email protected]] .
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