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Through these partnerships, ACF aimed to expand the availability of high quality early care and education opportunities for infants and toddlers from low-income families.  \nEHS-CC Partnerships bring together the best features of EHS and community-based child care by combining the high quality comprehensive, relationship-based child development and family services of EHS with the flexibility of child care and its responsiveness to the social, cultural, and work-support needs of families. EHS and child care partners work together to provide full-day, full-year early care and education services to enrolled infants and toddlers, as well as services designed to support children’s healthy development and parents’ role as their child’s first teacher.  \nPartnering to improve the quality of infant-toddler care  \nThis brief draws on data from the national descriptive study of Early Head Start-Child Care (EHS-CC) Partnerships to describe the activities partnerships engage in to improve the quality of services for infants, toddlers, and their families. The national descriptive study was designed to develop a rich knowledge base about the EHS programs, communitybased child care centers, and family child care providers participating in a 2015 federal grants program supporting the development of EHS-CC Partnerships and aiming to increase access to high quality infant-toddler care for low-income families.2  \nPrior research suggests that partnerships in early care and education have the potential to enhance the quality of care and offer comprehensive services to more children and families.3 The national descriptive study is the first to examine the quality improvement efforts of partnering EHS programs and child care providers within a national sample. The data presented in this brief are drawn from surveys of 220 EHS-CC Partnership grantee directors and 386 child care center directors and family child care providers. The data provide national estimates of the activities they engaged in through their partnerships. Additionally, this brief highlights findings from in-depth case studies of 10 EHS-CC Partnerships to illustrate some of the quality improvement opportunities and challenges they encountered.4 As described below, the EHS and child care partners worked together on a range of activities to set high standards for quality, assess their quality improvement needs, and support high quality caregiving and learning environments for infant and toddlers. Specifically, this brief addresses the following questions:  \n• How do EHS-CC Partnerships ensure all settings serving infant and toddlers are meeting the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS)?  \n• How do EHS-CC Partnerships identify quality improvement needs?  \n• How do EHS-CC Partnerships support the skills and credentials of staff caring for infants and toddlers?  \n• How do EHS-CC Partnerships support high quality learning environments for infants and toddlers?  \nPartnering to improve the quality of infant-toddler care  \nBox 1. Methods  \nThe national descriptive study was designed to develop a rich knowledge base about the EHS programs, community-based child care centers, and family child care providers participating in a 2015 federal grants program supporting the development of EHS-CC Partnerships and aiming to increase access to high-quality infant-toddler care for low-income families. The study provides a snapshot of the ch","cbCaifbjCQQO0Z0m","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifbjCQQO0Z0m","pdf",439771,"English","# Partnering to improve the quality of infant-toddler care\n## Methods","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the EHS-CC Partnership grants awarded in 2015?\",\"answer\":\"The grants were awarded to develop and implement partnerships with regulated, community-based childcare centers and family child care providers serving infants and toddlers. The goal was to expand availability of high-quality early care and education for low-income families.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the national descriptive study designed and when was data collected?\",\"answer\":\"The study created a rich knowledge base about EHS programs and participating child care centers and family child care providers in a 2015 federal grants program. Data were collected after the first year of implementation, about 12 to 18 months after receiving the grant.\"},{\"question\":\"What three data sources were used in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study used (1) a web-based survey of 250 EHS expansion and EHS-CC partnership grantees, (2) a web-based survey of a sample of 470 child care partners, and (3) in-depth case study data from 10 partnerships collected in 2017 through interviews.\"}]","Findings from the National Descriptive Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships - Quality improvement activities | PDF",1792061978]