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What's New?


 Contents
2009 Conference Overview
Encouraging Father Involvement in Early Care and Intervention
CLASP: Promote Continuity of Care
New CLASP Site
Needs Assessment Survey
Two New Research Briefs
ZERO TO THREE RELEASES "Early Experiences Matter: A Guide to Improved Policies for Infants and Toddlers"



2009 Conference Overview

The ITSI 2009 Conference details have been posted here.


Encouraging Father Involvement in Early Care and Intervention

Please view our research brief page and select "Parenting" or click here to download the PDF file.

CLASP: Promote Continuity of Care

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New CLASP Website

New guidelines introduced to promote proper use of funds from Child Care and Development Block Grant. States will have increased accountability for how they allocate this funding. Click here to check it out.


Needs Assessment Survey

We have created a new survey for our Needs Assessment. Please take the brief survey now, it should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. If you have questions, please contact Jim Elicker (elickerj@purdue.edu).


Two New Research Briefs

Two new research briefs were added today under Early Prevention Category. Check them out by clicking here.

  • Child Care Providers’ Role in Early Detection of Autism (U. of Nevada-Reno) [pdf]
  • Screening for Autism in Toddlers (U. of Connecticut, Georgia State U., Yale U.) [pdf]


ZERO TO THREE RELEASES "Early Experiences Matter: A Guide to Improved Policies for Infants and Toddlers"

ZERO TO THREE has released a comprehensive set of tools for use by policymakers and advocates. It includes 11 issue briefs, infant-toddler data, a compilation of the evidence for investing in the infant-toddler policy agenda, a strategic look at ways to get started with sample policy options and state examples, and other tools. It is available for download from the ZERO TO THREE website, www.zerotothree.org/policyguide. A limited number of print copies are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request a single print copy of the complete Early Experiences Matter Policy Guide, please email policycenter@zerotothree.org.


 

 
 
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