Child care houston texas: Texas Preschool Development Grant Birth Through 5 (PDG B-5)

Texas Preschool Development Grant Birth Through 5 (PDG B-5)

The Texas grant builds on the six goals from the Texas Early Learning Strategic Plan and will focus on connecting families to services and engaging them as leaders, supporting local system building, expanding access to high quality programs, strengthening and building the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce, and developing an early childhood integrated data system. Additionally, the grant includes updated reports and studies of the birth to 5 landscape in Texas.

PDG B-5 efforts will support the following activities:

Connect Families to Services and Engage Families as Leaders

Expand earlychildhood.texas.gov to add local resources and a tool (eligibility screener) that allows parents to see if they are potentially eligible for different early childhood programs (and then pointing parents to the appropriate program for formal application/eligibility determination).

Leverage and expand Parent Advisory Councils across the state. In years two and three of the grant, continue funding the TEA Early Childhood Education’s two new positions: Family Engagement Director and Family Engagement Specialist. Provide training to state agency staff, local early childhood coalitions, and other organizations to incorporate the National Family Support Network Standards of Quality and to co-design mechanisms to provide ongoing feedback to the state via the Early Childhood Interagency Work Group.

Offer community subgrants to support family engagement activities, which may include the expansion of Family Resource Centers, hiring parent navigators, or Parent Cafes.

Support Local Systems Building

Broaden Help Me Grow Texas, which supports communities in aligning and coordinating early childhood resources in order to support the optimal health, development and well-being of children, by:

• Offering technical assistance to interested communities to become Help Me Grow Texas affiliate organizations or to work toward Help Me Grow Texas readiness. This includes supporting the launch of local “centralized access points” (e.g., training on effective follow-ups), provider education and outreach (e.g., clinic work flows), data collection and analysis, and family and community outreach.
• Bringing together local early childhood coalition leaders to increase connections across programs and create a plan for ongoing, coordinated local work and transitions.
• Supporting local implementation through the availability of subgrants to local communities.

Expand Access to High Quality Programs

Continue funding Child Care Regulation’s Navigator positions to improve access to child care in rural areas. TWC is currently funding these positions for one year.

Support young children with disabilities through continued funding to train child care staff on developmental screenings, as well as assessments and early interventions to increase school readiness and reduce the need for expensive interventions later.

Provide local communities with the opportunity to expand access to research-based classroom assessment tools, which includes teacher coaching, to support educators in prekindergarten settings, through local subgrants.

Expand infant and early childhood mental health consultation support, conducting a landscape analysis and implementation science overview to inform state efforts to make mental health consultation more widely available to the ECCE workforce.

Strengthen and Build the ECCE Workforce

Develop a pipeline of effective early childhood educators and professionals through multiple pathways that improve the training of early childhood educators, including Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs in high school, articulation and transfer agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, support for early childhood apprenticeships including incentives for staff who mentor apprentices, robust work study programs, and pipelines that grow the availability of the early childhood teacher workforce.

Grow and maintain a qualified therapist workforce serving young children needing Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) services by providing incentives to local therapeutic staff who mentor other staff or supervise interns and/or to provide sign-on bonuses for therapists who come to work for ECI for at least 2 years.

Support the early childhood workforce through restorative discipline coaching to offer alternatives to suspensions and expulsions.

Develop Statewide Integrated Data System

Develop an Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS), taking into consideration how to align early childhood data efforts with the work of the Tri-Agency Work Group.

Reports and Studies

Conduct a new comprehensive statewide needs assessment for children birth to 5 years old.

Develop a new statewide strategic plan with efforts led by the Texas Early Learning Council in partnership with families, providers and other ECCE stakeholders.

Harris County parents can soon apply to receive free child care

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A Harris County free child care program is set to start, and advocates say it’s needed because child care centers across the state are in crisis.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Harris County free child care program is set to start in days, and advocates say it couldn’t come at a better time because the child care centers across the state are in crisis.

Sending your kid to child care is too much for some parents.

“If you want to go to a better place and a better area, it’s going to be $300 and up per child,” Paola Diaz explained.

Diaz said child care costs are why she’s at home spending summer days at the library instead of work.

“It keeps you from trying to work, or do other stuff around,” Diaz said. “It is hard.”

Harris County is looking to help. This month, an Early REACH program starts. The county is using $26 million in federal funds to cover child care costs. If you live in the county, have a kid under age four, and meet the income requirements, you could receive free child care.

“There are so many child care deserts around Harris County and we want to provide not only free child care, but high quality child care,” BakerRipley spokesperson Frederick Goodall said.

Advocates said this is a statewide problem. Texas Care for Children said a family of four spends nearly $20,000 a year in child care.

During the pandemic, the state spent millions on this issue. It’s funding that has dried up.

During this past session, advocates lawmakers didn’t do enough to fund child care.

“That funding would’ve supported the continuation of stabilization grants that the state launched during the pandemic that were critical to keeping programs open,” Texas Care for Children early learning policy director David Feigen said.

Advocates said it’s not only the cost of child care, but workers’ pay. On average, they make $11 an hour.

Without assistance, it could cause facilities to close. It’s a problem they say has already caused child care deserts, mainly in low-income communities.

“It means they have to find alternative arrangements for their kids and for some kids that means arrangements that are not high quality or children are stuck in front of a television screen rather than getting read to be a teacher and engaging with other kids,” Feigen explained.

Without work, parents aren’t spending money. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Texas loses $9 billion a year in revenue because of parents not working. That’s money that could go to infrastructure, teachers, and other state projects, which is why advocates say programs like the one the county will launch this month are important for us all.

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CDS sends third team to Houston, Orlando team completes service –

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June 24, 2016

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A child support volunteer reads to a child at MARC near Houston, Texas.

“We have another team heading to Houston, Texas this week and a third this summer,” says Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) Deputy Director Kathleen Fry-Miller. “I know that people there are very tired from all the floods and water. I am so grateful that we have volunteers ready to go.”

In related news, the CDS team, which served in Orlando after the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, has completed its job of caring for children and families affected by the shooting. In addition, more CDS volunteers are on alert to respond to California fires and West Virginia floods as the American Red Cross identifies child care needs.

Houston

The third group of CDS volunteers to serve in the Houston area this year continues to help children and families affected by the floods. The five-man team left for Houston on June 21st. They set up a child care center at the Interagency Resource Center (MARC) in Angleton, Houston, in partnership with the American Red Cross. They are expected to provide services there until Monday, June 27th. The team includes Project Manager Donna Savage, Mary Geisler, Pearl Miller, Vivian Woods and Myrna Jones.

On its first day of operation, the Houston team served 25 children. Savage said in a CDS Facebook post that the children were calm and playful. About the team, she said: “We have a great group here!”

Orlando

The CDS Orlando team has retired. As of June 21, the team has served 53 children at the Family Assistance Center (FAC) in Orlando, at field meetings and in the hospital. More than 650 people have received help at the FAC, the team said in a CDS Facebook post.

“This week and a half has been emotional and stressful for everyone involved, including service providers,” CDS said in a Facebook post. Project manager John Kinsel said: “It has been an honor and a blessing to be a part of this.”

The work of the CDS attracted media attention in Orlando, including an interview with team member Erin Silber on WTSP 10 News.