Oklahoma's Child Care and Development Fund Quality Infant/Toddler Earmark:
FY 2006 : The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark is $1,530,493.
The funds are used in the following ways to enhance the Oklahoma infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may be used to support these activities):
- Initial exploration to develop early learning guidelines for infants and toddlers.
- To fund infant toddler training through the Center for Early Childhood Professional Development.
- To fund an Infant/Toddler Coordinator in the Oklahoma Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies office to provide technical assistance and training to child care providers caring for children 0-3.
- Continuation of the Better Baby Care Campaign (in collaboration with several other agencies and organizations).
- To support the capture and evaluation of data on the supply and demand of infant and toddler care.
- To provide trained consultants (through the Center for Early Childhood Professional Development) to administer the ITERS in child care facilities.
- To provide updated materials on SIDS and the Back to Sleep Campaign to all licensees (0-24 months).
- Distribution of a video on infant and toddler developmental stages, which includes age appropriate activities, to all infant and toddler caregivers.
FY 2004: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Earmark was $1,513,318.
The funds were used in the following ways to enhance the Oklahoma infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may have been used to support these activities):
- Implementation of the Better Baby Care Campaign.
- To fund three (3) regional nurse health consultants to provide training and education to infant/toddler teachers in child care centers.
- To support the capture and evaluation of data on the supply and demand of infant and toddler care.
- To provide trained consultants to administer the ITERS in child care facilities.
- To provide updated materials on SIDS and the Back to Sleep Campaign to all licensees.
- Distribution of a video on infant and toddler developmental stages, which includes age appropriate activities, to all infant and toddler caregivers.
- Piloting Creative Curriculum and assessment training with infant/toddler teachers in three (3) areas of the state.
- To fund the Center for Early Childhood Professional Development.
- To conduct a research initiative with 41 infant/toddler teachers in Tulsa, OK to determine the impact of using the Creative Curriculum and mentors.
- To provide scholarships and mentoring for child care providers seeking a degree or credential.
- To fund wage supplements for child care providers with degrees or credentials that remain in child care.
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