Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families ECEAP Reminders & Links--February 2023

February 2023 Issue

ELMS Updates

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Training Opportunities & Support

Trainings, Funding Opportunities, & Resources Offered by External Partners

Equity, Child Development, Education, & Health

Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families sent this bulletin at 02/16/2023 01:59 PM PST

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ECEAP is Washington’s pre-kindergarten program that prepares 3- and 4-year-old children furthest from opportunity for success in school and life.

Maintaining and prioritizing waiting lists: Remember to remove children from waiting lists in ELMS when you learn the children no longer need services or have enrolled in Head Start. ELMS will remove children when they are no longer age-eligible. ECEAP waiting lists may include children who are also on Head Start waiting lists.

ELMS Data Entry: Remember to keep ELMS up-to-date. The data is used regularly to monitor compliance with ECEAP requirements, answer questions from legislators and other policymakers, and inform decisions about ECEAP policy. See Data Entry - Minimum Requirements for details.

Please check the ELMS News page for additional information and updates.

Email questions about newsletter topics to eceap@dcyf.wa.gov or your Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Specialist.

For additional information about ECEAP or the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), please visit our Contractor webpages.

ECEAP Professional Development Webinar Series

DCYF ECEAP and Professional Development (PD) team are hosting a webinar series for ECEAP contractor staff. This series will focus on navigating the MERIT system, application processes and professional development related to performance standard monitoring. This series is intended for staff who support others in ECEAP roles with staff qualification requirements.

The webinars will occur on the 4^th Thursday of the month.

Webinar Topics: MERIT Overview and Resources

Thursday, February 23^rd at 11am – Join Zoom

Webinar Topic: Staff Qualification Application Process

Thursday, March 23rd at 11am – Join Zoom

Webinar Topic: Monitoring Staff Qualifications in ELMS and MERIT

Thursday, April 27^th at 11am – Join Zoom

If you received Second Step curriculum kits from DCYF ECEAP last spring or summer, you can attend the Second Step orientation provided by Committee for Children. This training is provided to those contractors who identified a need for Second Step kits and requested training for their employees. These are first come, first serve with a limit of 300 participants. There is no registration. Please copy the zoom link below if you are planning to attend.

Friday, February 17^th 9a-10a Zoom Link

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Integrated Efficient Early Care and Education Systems: Revisiting a State-by-State Analysis

States vary considerably in their approaches to and organization of early care and education (ECE) programs; the Bipartisan Policy Center has revisited an initial 2018 report ranking states on their coordination and integration of ECE programs. The new report, Integrated Efficient Early Care and Education Systems: Revisiting a State-by-State Analysis, includes new rankings, and incorporates how states responded to the rollout of pandemic relief funding. Read the report and see how our state ranks here.

Fact Sheet: Advancing Racial Equity in Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education

The Department of Education-funded Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center partnered with the UNC Equity Research Action Coalition and the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children to develop: Fact Sheet: Advancing Racial Equity in Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education. The resource provides information and evidence about racial disparities and inequities for young children with disabilities and considerations for state and local leaders seeking to advance equity for all children with disabilities and their families.