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NAEHCY Presentation: Who's Tending the Toddlers?
1. Who’s Tending the
Toddlers?
Parental, Provider, and Federal Policy Perspectives on Increasing Access to Early
Childhood Care for Children in Homeless Situations
N A T I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N F O R T H E E D U C A T I O N O F H O M E L E S S C H I L D R E N A N D Y O U T H
P H O E N I X , A Z - - N O V E M B E R 1 6 , 2 0 1 5
2. Panel
Chuck Kieffer, The Cloudburst Group
Carie Bires, Ounce of Prevention Fund
Marsha Basloe, Administration for Children and Families
4. Will Somebody Please Lend Us a Hand?:
Homeless Families’ Experiences in
Preschool Enrollment
CHARLES H. KIEFFER, PH.D.
THE CLOUDBURST GROUP
5. Research Presentation Background
• Findings and recommendations based on qualitative study
supported by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and
Research (Grant #H-21616RG)
• Research directly linked to recently published Family
Options Study: The Impact of Housing and Services
Interventions on Homeless Families
• Over 2,300 homeless families in 12 communities randomly assigned
to one of four housing treatment options (Section 8 voucher, TH,
rapid rehousing, “usual care”)
6. Research Motivation
• Over 127,000 children under age 6 counted in
homeless shelters in 2012 (AHAR)
• Only 16% of preschool-aged children in homeless
families are enrolled in early educational settings
o National policies have not yet helped remove barriers that
homeless families face in enrolling children in early
education programs
7. How do homeless families describe their experience
in pursuit of preschool enrollment?
What challenges and experiences do recently
homeless families face in accessing early childhood
education for preschool-aged children?
What can we learn from parental reflections on
facilitative factors and/or barriers that, as
practitioners and policy leaders, we can apply to
support increasing success in preschool
participation?
Key Study
Questions
8. Parental Perspectives on Early Learning
and the Preschool Environment
• Parents reflected high level of investment in the quality of
learning in the preschool environment
• Participants widely felt preschool to be important in assisting
children in achieving positive transitions to kindergarten and
later learning
• Parental reports of dissatisfaction with preschool choice, in
several cases, linked to setting’s absence of emphasis on
learning
• Parental reports of satisfaction with preschool choice linked to
experience of support from preschool staff
9. Motivating Factors in Preschool Choice
Frequently mentioned parental concerns in selecting
preschool included:
• Location and Proximity to Home and to Work
• Availability/Accessibility of Transportation
• Availability of Extended Hours
• Educational Quality of Settings
• Costs of Enrollment and Availability of Subsidy
• Sense of Safety and Security in Setting
10. Impact of Housing Stability on
Preschool Enrollment
• For many families, frequent moves meant switching preschools
and having to go through repeated search & enrollment
processes
• Some parents made efforts to keep child[ren] in same school
despite residential moves – even if traveling long distances
• As locating affordable housing was most families’
understandable priority, few parents could make housing
choices based on access to preschool
• Transience complicated difficulty of addressing challenges of
program entry
11. Barriers to Preschool Enrollment
• Parental interviews identified key barriers that
included:
• Insufficient subsidized slots
• Long waiting lists
• Complicated processes for enrollment
• Need for access to transportation
• Absence of access to quality information about programs
• Preschool programs unresponsive to consumer contact
12. Absence of Outreach by Homeless
Programs and/or Educational Services
• Few parents reported meaningful
• Support from homeless programs or service providers
• Outreach by Head Start programs into shelter settings
• Outreach regarding early childhood education through
McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Liaisons
• Outreach by other early childhood programs
13. Facilitative Factors for Preschool
Enrollment
Key factors referenced by parents in facilitating preschool
enrollment included:
• Persistence (as a parental quality) in seeking out quality programs --
e.g., school visitation; aggregating needed documentation
• Geographic proximity of the school of choice to home location
• Ease of access to transportation
• Access to accurate/updated information
• Access to centralized referral systems
• Access to informal social supports
14. Implications for Policy and Practice
• Increase attention to preschool access in shelter case management protocols
• Increase investment in building consumer knowledge/awareness of preschool
options and requirements for enrollment
• Expand assistance for peer-to-peer supports and information-sharing
• Increase shelter in-reach by ECE providers (including Head Start)
• Include early childhood providers in community-wide Coordinated Entry
• Increase homeless and ECE systems’ knowledge of consumer needs via expanded
collaboration in data development and data sharing
• Address systemic barriers to preschool enrollment (e.g., increase transportation
support, access to subsidies, and preferences or set-asides for limited slots)
15. Implications for Policy and Practice
• Develop strategies that help reduce the impact of housing mobility, e.g.:
• Porting of subsidy slots
• Providing post-shelter follow-up
• Providing information on resources in “new” housing locations
• Increase use of homeless preferences in state and federally funded early childhood
initiatives (e.g., CCDF slots, Preschool Development slots, IDEA Part C, MIECHV)
• Increase collaborative partnerships between homeless service providers and early
childhood educators
• Increase participation of early childhood providers as partners in community
planning for homeless systems response
• Provide technical assistance/training for early childhood providers on needs of
homeless families
16. NAEHCY Survey Report:
Provider Perspectives on Barriers and
Facilitators to Early Care and Education
CARIE BIRES
OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND
17. Survey Questions
• Knowledge of laws governing homeless education and early care
and education programs and services
• Experiences connecting families to various early childhood
programs and services
• Observed barriers to accessing these programs and services
• Experiences using various strategies for overcoming barriers
• Degree of cross-system involvement between programs and
services
• Success stories
• Education and training needs for providers
18. Respondents
• 970 total respondents
• 46% percent of the respondents were McKinney-Vento Homeless
Education Liaisons
• 27% were Early Head Start/Head Start professionals
• 12% were child care providers
• 11% were homeless/housing providers
• Remaining respondents were from preschool programs in LEAs
23. Recommendations
• Increase awareness of the impact of homelessness on young children among early
childhood providers, homeless service providers, and the general public.
• Provide regular training for McKinney-Vento Liaisons, homeless service providers,
and early childhood providers to support their ability to collaborate to meet the
needs of young children experiencing homelessness.
• Implement strategies to increase connections to families experiencing
homelessness and support effective cross-sector collaboration.
• Advocate for policies and funding to increase access to early childhood programs
and services for young children experiencing homelessness.
• Increase representation of young children who experience homelessness in local
and state homelessness and early education planning efforts.
25. Connecting the Dots
• Increase awareness and attention to early childhood
program access
• Increase use of homeless preferences in state and
federally funded early childhood initiatives
• Provide training for early childhood providers on needs of
homeless families and importance of increasing
accessibility of system supports and resources
26. Early/Head Start, Child Care & Maternal,
Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
• Support the well-being of young children and their families
to meet families’ immediate needs and improve the long-
term educational outcomes of the children
• Develop partnerships, coordination and collaboration with
other community organizations to help end incidences of
family homelessness
27. Key Features of CCDBG Reauthorization
• 12-month Eligibility Policies
• Payment Rates & Provider
Payment Practices
• Consumer Education &
Family Engagement
• Health & Safety Minimums
in Licensing/Training
• Criminal Background
Checks
• Monitoring
• Training & Professional
Development
• Increased Quality Spending
• Infant & Toddler Set-aside
• Supply-building for
Underserved Populations
• Tribal Provisions
28. Head Start Standards – NPRM Public
Comment period ended in September
• Eliminates redundancy
• Streamlines, updates and clarifies requirements
• Strong services for kids with disabilities
• Updates practices to meet IDEA requirements and strengthen
collaboration to better meet the needs of children with IFSPs, IEPs, and
504 plans
• Improves services for homeless children
• Provides administrative flexibility to facilitate serving children who
experience homelessness
• Homelessness in community assessment
• Hold slots
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29. Birth to Five: Watch Me Thrive! User
Guides
Early Care and Education Providers
Early Intervention Service and Early Childhood Special Education Providers
Families
Primary Care Providers
Communities
Child Welfare
Home Visitors
Behavioral Health Providers
Housing and Homeless Shelter Providers
30. Connecting the Dots
• Develop strategies that help reduce the impact of
housing mobility
• Include early childhood providers as active participants
in community-wide Coordinated Entry systems
• Implement strategies to increase connections
31. ACF Efforts
Building Partnerships to
Address Family Homelessness
Around the country, Head Start and Early Head Start
programs are building partnerships in their communities in
order to make their services more accessible for children
experiencing homelessness.
Promising Practices for Children Experiencing
Homelessness: A Look at Two States
A look at efforts in Massachusetts and Oregon to
implement innovative policies to improve early
childhood outcomes for young children experiencing
homelessness
32. ACF – Released Late 2014; updated
April 2015
Early Childhood Self-Assessment Tool for Family Shelters
This tool is intended to help shelters and early learning programs work together to create the
most appropriate and supportive environment possible for young children and strengthen
collaboration efforts at the local level to best use community resources.
34. Present Plans by ACF
• Share CCDBG Reauthorization information pertaining to serving
homeless children
• Work to include early childhood language in future HUD NOFA
• Early Childhood Self - Assessment Tool outreach and learning
community
• Data subgroup for Early Childhood State Profiles on Homelessness
• Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships
36. Contact information
Chuck Kieffer, Director
The Cloudburst Group
8400 Corporate Drive -- Suite 550
Landover, MD 20785
chuck.kieffer@cloudburstgroup.com
734-645-0810
Carie Bires, Policy Manager
Ounce of Prevention Fund
cbires@ounceofprevention.org
312-291-2160
Marsha Basloe, Senior Advisor for Early
Childhood Development
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary,
ACF
Email: marsha.basloe@acf.hhs.gov
202-401-7241