Collaborative Activities — National Projects

• "IDEA and Early Childhood Inclusion" (PDF: 2,956kb)
• "Facilitating Change in Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems" (PDF: 3,801kb)
• "Early Childhood Inclusion Policy and Systems: What Do We Know?" (PDF: 3,514kb)
• "Tasks, Tips and Tools for Promoting Collaborative Community Teams" (PDF: 163kb)

"Partnership Profiles: The Child Care Partnership Project" — A compilation by the National Child Care Information Center of the many partnerships formed to increase and improve child care in various states across the country. In addition to describing a partnership, each profile presents information on current activities, resources, lessons learned, results, and contact information.

Not By Chance: Creating An Early Care and Education System for America’s Children synthesizes the major findings and recommendations from the Quality 2000 Initiative, a 4-year, comprehensive effort to advance new ideas about reforming America’s early childhood education system.

The National Institute for Urban School Improvement supports inclusive urban communities, schools, and families to build their capacity for sustainable, successful urban education. The Institute accomplishes this through dialogue, networking, technology, action research, information systems, alliance and consensus building in efforts to link existing education reform networks with special education networks. Their publications list has many useful publications available to download.

The Map to Inclusive Child Care Project was funded by the Child Care Bureau to provide technical assistance to states as they include children with disabilities in child care settings. This site includes the plans developed by states participating in this project.

The National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative at ZERO TO THREE is a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. It is designed to support State and Territory Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) administrators in their efforts to effect system-wide improvements in infant and toddler child care. This three-year project will work directly with 10 states and territories per year, a total of 30, and will produce fact sheets, issue briefs and other materials that will be available to all states and territories.