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Strengthening Families in Early Care and Education

The Strengthening Families initiative is a strength-based approach to preventing child abuse and neglect. Strengthening Families is a Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) initiative that looks at the evidence to find out what factors really reduce child abuse and neglect. This training makes the connections between the factors that prevent child abuse […]

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Child Care Resources – COVID 19

Healthcare workers and essential employees are now able to submit a request for care through the department’s updated Child Care Finder. Workers can also proactively view up-to-date availability across the state using the department’s new child care map. More information for providers, essential workers and families can be found on the DCF COVID-19 Child Care webpage.

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Family Connections Training and Technical Assistance to Child Care Providers

Training & Technical Assistance Training or Technical Consulting/Assistance Examples: Ages & Stages Questionnaire-3 Ages & Stages Questionnaire-SE 2 Art in Action: Tools to Support the Creative Process in Children Practice Based Coaching Developmentally Appropriate Environments S.T.E.M. – Science Technology Engineering and Math Early Literacy Family Engagement: Partnering with Families for Children’s Success Germs, Worms, Mud

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Parent Cafés

At a Parent Café event, parents bring their children and enjoy a delicious meal together. After, children will have separate activities set up for them with quality childcare staff, rated by Youngstar to ensure a safe environment. During this time, parents will discuss different parenting topics in groups. Throughout the time together, the groups will rotate

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Youngstar

YoungStar

YoungStar is Wisconsin’s child care quality rating and improvement system. We give parents the tools and information they need to raise happy, healthy kids. And, we help preschools, home-based programs, learning centers, and other child care providers give children safe, nurturing places to grow. How do we do it? By objectively measuring child care quality.

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