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How have states leveraged different policy choices to support the integration of social-emotional developmental strategies into early intervention services? We look at all 50 states.

This brief reports the results of a survey on states efforts to maximize the impact current policies to provide effective child development and prevention services to young children, especially those at risk of social and emotional delays, and makes recommendations for how to better support children at risk for social and emotional delays going forward.

Testimony about state early childhood policies before the House Committee on Education and Labor, at the hearing on "The Importance of Early Childhood Development."

Other Publications

• Making Parents' Health Care a Priority
  Fact Sheet, April 2009
• Paid Leave in the States
  A Critical Support for Low-wage Workers and Their Families
  Brief, March 2009
• State-based Home Visiting
  Strengthening Programs Through State Leadership
  Report, March 2009
• Making Maternal and Child Health Care a Priority
  Fact Sheet, March 2009
• Towards Better Behavioral Health for Children, Youth and their Families
  Financing that Supports Knowledge
  Report, February 2008
• Reducing Maternal Depression and Its Impact on Young Children
  Toward a Responsive Early Childhood Policy Framework
  Brief, January 2008
• Strengthening Policies to Support Children, Youth, and Families Who Experience Trauma
  Report, July 2007
• State Early Childhood Policies
  Executive Summary
  Brief, June 2007
• State Early Childhood Policies
  Report, June 2007
• National Early Childhood Policy Profile
  Fact Sheet, June 2007
• Common Purpose
  Sharing Responsibility for Child and Family Outcomes
  Brief, October 2006
• Developing Fiscal Analyses and Children’s Budgets to Support ECCS and Children
  Short Take No. 3
  Brief, September 2006
• Toward a National Strategy to Improve Family, Friend, and Neighbor Child Care
  Brief, September 2006
• Maximizing the Use of EPSDT to Improve the Health and Development of Young Children
  Short Take No. 2
  Brief, June 2006
• The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
  Short Take No. 1: Opportunities and Challenges for ECCS Initiatives
  Brief, June 2006
• Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems that Spend Smarter
  Maximizing Resources to Serve Vulnerable Children
  Report, February 2006
• Helping the Most Vulnerable Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families
  Report, January 2006
• Spending Smarter
  A Funding Guide for Policymakers and Advocates to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness
  Report, November 2005
• Resources to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness in Young Children and Families
  A Community Guide
  Report, November 2005
• Infant and Toddler Child Care Arrangements
  Brief, August 2005
• Infant and Toddler Child Care Quality
  Brief, August 2005
• Impact of Training and Education for Caregivers of Infants and Toddlers
  Brief, August 2005
• Parental Employment Does Not Guarantee Health Insurance for Children
  Fact Sheet, September 2004
• Depression, Substance Abuse, and Domestic Violence
  Little is Known About Co-Occurrence and Combined Effects on Low-Income Families
  Brief, June 2004
• Making Dollars Follow Sense
  Financing Early Childhood Mental Health Services to Promote Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children
  Report, August 2002
• Ready to Enter
  What Research Tells Policymakers About Strategies to Promote Social and Emotional School Readiness Among Three- and Four-Year-Old Children
  Report, July 2002
• Building Services and Systems to Support the Healthy Emotional Development of Young Children
  An Action Guide for Policymakers
  Report, January 2002
• Improving the Odds for the Healthy Development of Young Children in Foster Care
  Brief, January 2002
• Kith and Kin
  Informal Child Care
  Brief, May 2001
• Depression and Low-Income Women
  Challenges for TANF and Welfare-to-Work Policies and Programs
  Report, April 2001
• Map and Track 2000
  State Initiatives for Young Children and Families
  Report, December 2000
• Using Mental Health Strategies to Move the Early Childhood Agenda and Promote School Readiness
  Report, September 2000
• Promoting Resilience
  Helping Young Children and Parents Affected by Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Depression in the Context of Welfare Reform
  Brief, February 2000