Within an internet full of valuable research, inspiring insights and distracting clutter, solutions await you here in the Center for Early Childhood Learning@100%. Your introduction to the issues here in the “Center’s Main Hall” guides you to what we call our ten “Innovation Areas” where action team projects await your review and engagement.

What the Center for Early Childhood Learning@100% provides you with are the strategies to ensure, county by county, that systems of early childhood learning are working effectively to serve all residents. We live in a time of vast knowledge regarding innovations in face-to-face and online early childhood learning, where the only reason for a family going without easy access to early childhood learning programs in your locality is manmade. The human ingenuity you discover here can ensure that 100% survive and thrive.

Early childhood education has the capacity to empower us at a very young age. We have millions of people reading thousands upon thousands of articles and books on how the first three months of an infant’s life is pivotal. Other research focuses on the first three years that shape us. We know that each day matters move through the stages of newborn to infant to child to youth. We are developing and learning minute by minute, ideally guided by caring adults in the home. It should go without saying that early childhood learning programs can have a significant role in identifying, preventing and treating adverse childhood experiences and trauma.

In the Center for Early Childhood Learning@100% we address a very complicated system with numerous challenges. We also provide an overview of early childhood learning programs to demonstrate the challenges are solvable. Get ready to be overwhelmed, also inspired. We will guide you through all the steps to put ideas into action.

As a society, we claim to treasure each child, yet our rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma and maltreatment tell a very different story. In 100% Community, one service among the ten we identify as vital is accessible, local early childhood learning programs. There are places where a new set of eyes, those of childhood development workers, can be focused on a child, as well as his or her parents. It’s in this context where challenges can be identified and ideally remedied in a timely manner. Furthermore, quality early childhood education programs provide parents with an opportunity to work, knowing that their kids are in an enriching, positive environment. It’s win-win for everyone.

In the Center for Early Childhood Learning@100%, we take on a very complicated system with numerous challenges and opportunities. We provide an overview of early childhood learning program that offer solutions to the disparities challenge. Get ready to be overwhelmed, and also inspired. We will guide you through all the steps to put ideas into action.

One Child: Many Opportunities for Enrichment

Early childhood learning programs come in many forms. Our goal is to empower you and your action teams in creating a seamless system of support, enrichments and empowerment focused on the young child.

One of the best strategies we have for ensuring safe childhoods is early childhood learning programs. Staff in programs are working to make sure that the child is healthy and safe, and that the parent is fully supported and able to access key services.

Lastly, our countywide system of early childhood learning programs needs to provide a menu of empowerment/education programs that give children the best chance to be prepared for school.  In our perfect world, each county would have robust centers that house a cadre of well-resourced staff with the skills to not only empower children, but to facilitate workshops on every topic relevant to child rearing, including awareness of ACEs and trauma. Ideally, all early childhood educators could also serve as navigators, helping parents connect with all the vital services that support families of all income levels and cultures.

“Can’t all parents enroll their children in early childhood learning programs?”

We have a wealth of insights, ideas and research focused on early childhood learning programs. This information can provide every city and town with the knowledge needed to create a seamless system of early childhood learning programs. These programs would provide a vital service to every parent who would benefit from it (and that, we strongly believe, would be pretty much all parents).

High quality early childhood programs should create an environment full of creativity, art, music, movement, words and sharing with others; the fundamental skills for a productive life. Early childhood education can play an important role in preparing children for school, increasing their skills in reading, math, and teamwork.

Program staff, correctly trained in ACEs and trauma-informed care and prevention, can model positive behaviors and steer kids and their families clear of unhelpful behaviors. This is a path toward success that stretches from K–12, to job training to jobs, and one day for many, their own healthy families. The institution of early childhood learning itself can be a great way for other pairs of eyes to screen out problems, support parents and prevent potential family challenges.

Innovations focus on ensuring access to quality programs for all parents seeking a place for their children, and technology plays a role in client data collection and education for kids, parents and staff.

In the Center for Early Childhood Learning@100% we take on a very complicated system that involves community, city and county planning with numerous challenges and opportunities. Get ready to be overwhelmed and also inspired. We will guide you through all the steps to put these ideas for increasing access to services into action.