Early Care and Education Workforce Initiative

The Early Care and Education Workforce Initiative is sponsored by Cornerstones for Kids, a nonprofit which manages the Human Services Workforce Initiative (HSWI). HSWI focuses on understanding and improving the conditions of front line staff in five fields with the potential to change the lives of low-income children and their families: early care and education, juvenile justice, child welfare, youth development, and employment services.

Through a series of analytic, strategic, and catalytic efforts, we are conducting a comprehensive review of research, literature, and current practices and policies related to the early care and education workforce. We will distill key issues emanating from the reviews to generate strategic recommendations for policies and practices that could be enacted to improve the conditions of the early care and education workforce. It is expected that this analysis will extend previous early care and education workforce data by objectively reviewing the research, carefully mapping workforce development practices and policies, and analyzing key issues. Working collaboratively with a team of experts, we will use these data to create cogent, visionary recommendations for early care and education workforce development.

Funding Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation
Contact: Kate Tarrant, M.P.A.

Other Current Systems/Governance Projects:

- Policy Matters: ECE Planning In The Real World
- Financing Universal Early Care and Education for America's Children
- Analysis of Early Childhood Governance Efforts
- Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Alignment of Standards, Curriculum, and Assessment: One State's Experience ("A Single Step")

Completed Systems/Governance Projects