System Indicators of Quality Infant and Toddler Child Care

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System Indicators of Quality Infant and Toddler
Child Care
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Indicator 1 Professional Development for Infant
and Toddler Caregivers

• Provides the foundation of knowledge critical to
  the care of infants and toddlers
• Available statewide
• Easily accessed
• Available in a variety of mediums and languages
• Adapted for all caregivers
• parents
• family, friends, neighbors
• family home providers
• center-based staff

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Indicator 2 Infant Toddler Caregiver
Credentials

• Progressive
• Multiple levels
• Credit-bearing
• Articulated
• Compensated

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Indicator 3 Licensing Regulations for Infant and
Toddler Programs Caregivers

• Specific to infant and toddler care
• Begins with health safety
• Required training specific to infant toddler
  care
• entry-level
• ongoing

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Indicator 4 Infant and Toddler Child Care
Specialists

• Part of the early care and education
  infrastructure
• Linked to other ECE partners
• Health
• Mental Health
• EHS
• Part C
• Home-visiting
• Professional development opportunities

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Indicator 5 Supports to Parents

• Integrated in all system elements
• Linked to home visiting

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Indicator 6 Supports to Family, Friend and
Neighbor Care

• Integrated into the early care and education
  system
• Tailored to the population
• Linked to home visiting

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Indicator 7Policies Support Quality Infant and
Toddler Care

• Higher rates for programs and caregivers meeting
  higher standards/credentials
• Higher standards for subsidized care
• Support partnerships

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Indicator 8 Availability of Early Head Start

• Low income areas
• Available to all TANF families
• Available to Teen Parents
• Available in Centers. Family Child Care Homes and
  Home-Based Care

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Indicator 9 Early Care and Education Initiatives
are Inclusive of Children 0-3

• System planning
• System development
• System financing
• System research
• System evaluation

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Choose Indicators

• That are
• Research-based
• Measurable
• Able to be influenced

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Selecting Priority Indicators Choosing Where to
Start

• Map what exists
• Develop a plan
• Choose whats possible

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The very least you can do in your life is to
figure out what you hope for. And the most you
can do is live inside that hope.

• Barbara Kingsolver