Early Care and Learning Council (ECLC)

Child Care resource & referral agency (ccr&r) component plan is to provide statewide support through technical assistance and training to strengthen the network of child Care resource and referral agencies. Target audiences include ccr&r staff, specifically ccr&r administrators, trainers, infant/toddler specialists, infant/toddler mental health consultants and data mangers. For the trainer audience, the focus is on serving child Care centers in improving management practices and building the capacity of the cc&r to deliver services. Services offered to the infant/toddler specialists specifically target issues surrounding the development and implementation of outcome based service delivery and the dissemination of information from the ten components of quality infant/toddler Care. Services to all audiences include workshops, technical assistance visits, seminars, regional trainings, and other activities designed to increase participants' knowledge and skill on presented topics.

The Early Care & Learning Council (eclc), will lead the leading with racial equity to work intensively with a cohort of 30 stakeholders from the Early Care and Learning field to address personal biases, privilege, policies and practices to become anti-racist leaders in their organizations to support equity in the Early Care and Learning outcomes for children. The stakeholders will work individually or in groups to develop a capstone project for their organization to support anti-racist and equitable practices.

The Early Care & Learning Council (eclc), in partnership with brightside up of the capital region and the child Care Council of westchester have been selected to pilot a new assessment tool, the child/it, in partnership with the edward zigler center in child development & social policy at yale university. The child tool is a comprehensive assessment tool designed to examine the mental health climate of Early childhood and education programs.