Early Milestones Colorado

Community innovation and resilience for care and learning equity is an initiative to support grantees as they implement innovative solutions to child care challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion activities that strengthen partnerships and eliminate barriers. Grants will support projects to make child care more affordable; fill gaps in infant and toddler care; strengthen providers' financial stability; boost workforce preparation; and contribute to the health and learning of all children.

Research & policy is a grant to support staffing and administative costs for Early Milestones' research & policy work.

Transforming Colorado's Early childhood workforce is an initiative to increase the recruitement and retention of effective and diverse Early childhood learning professionals through improving work conditions, compensation and benefits, and providing support for emerging leaders.

Advancing ideal learning in the public sector is an initiative to develop recommendations to support the spread of best practice ideal learning programs in preschool through the third grade that also meets district and state education goals. Expenses 155,504. Including grants of 101,278. Revenue 0. Adverse childhood experiences and systemic racism equity initiative is a project to amplify community-based programs led by and servicing Colorado families of color. Expenses 71,164. Including grants of 27,000. Revenue 0. Oral health equity in Colorado's Early childhood systems is an initiative to lead a strategic planning process focused on advancing integrated and preventative oral health in Colorado's Early childhood systems to engage a borad and diverse set of stakeholders and emphasize equitable solutions to improving the oral health of all children. Expenses 58,007. Including grants of 0. Revenue 87,744. Health & well-being systems systems building efforts for Early childhood health and well-being including research and stakeholder collaboration and engagement. Expenses 59,512. Including grants of 0. Revenue 29,092. Equitable upk/covid research on the impact of the pandemic on the ece sector and families and the promotion of equitable implementation of universal preschool by conducting and communicating timely, participatory research on disparities in preschool supply and access. Expenses 95,187. Including grants of 0. Revenue 29,092. Hb21 is a project to engage stakeholders in planning for a new department of Early childhood and upk implementation. Expenses 5,267. Including grants of 0. Revenue 20,000. Jeffco bright futures roadmap is an initiative to develop a county- wide vision to support jefferson county's strengths and assets, utilizing data to identify needs, and leveraging research and best practice. Expenses 26,187. Including grants of 0. Revenue 0. Russell sage foundation - qualitative research on denver preschool teacher and child experiences. Expenses 502. Including grants of 0. Revenue 0. Lco training & support - Early Milestones is partnering with the Colorado department of Early childhood to provide ongoing training and support for lcos. Expenses 27,852. Including grants of 0. Revenue 37,700. Ec workforce plan - in 2017, Colorado developed the Early childhood workforce 2020 plan, setting ambitious goals related to workforce recruitment, preparation, well-being, retention, and data. The Colorado department of Early childhood and the Early childhood leadership commission, in partnership with Early Milestones, will be updating and expanding upon the plan, creating a new Colorado comprehensive Early childhood workforce plan. The new plan will take a broad view of the Early childhood workforce including home visiting, Early childhood mental health, and Early intervention. Expenses 52,583. Including grants of 0. Revenue 47,635. Health data & research - to support the vision that all Colorado children are valued, healthy, and thriving, Early Milestones Colorado will bring together data, analysis, and stakeholder engagement to accelerate and advance whole-child, equity-driven leadership in the new Colorado department of Early childhood. Expenses 5,320. Including grants of 0. Revenue 0. Research & policy advances research and policy in support of the Colorado Early childhood ecosystem. Expenses 14,679. Including grants of 0. Revenue 0.