B-3 Programs & Services
State-funded infant/toddler set-aside of the Early Childhood Block Grant that funds birth to three center-based programs or evidence-based home visiting.
What is the Prevention Initiative?
1985
What is the year that Preschool for Children at-risk was established?
The state agency responsible for licensing early care and education settings.
What is the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)?
The early childhood programs and services that are federally funded.
What are Early Head Start and Head Start?
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What is the statewide quality rating and improvement system (QRIS)?
Federally funded program (center-based and home visiting) for pregnant women, infants, and toddlers up to age three in households living at poverty-line. (100% FPL)
What is Early Head Start?
State-funded program that provides at least 2.5 hours of high-quality preschool education for children three to five years old (specifically children that may benefit from additional academic supports). Includes parent engagement and comprehensive developmental screening
What is Preschool for All?
State agency responsible administering the funds and monitoring compliance with preschool programs and bilingual policy.
What is the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)?
The early learning programs that are state funded.
What is Preschool for All, Prevention Initiative, and Preschool Expansion?
Fair compensation, reflective supervision, job-embedded professional development.
What are markers of quality related to qualified and supported educators?
Healthy Families Illinois and Parents Too Soon
What are evidence-based home visiting programs funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services?
The newer preschool program seeded by federal dollars and referred to as the "Cadillac" because it offers a full day program and more robust parent engagement.
What is the preschool expansion grant program?
Trained professionals work with families who meet eligibility requirements to promote early learning, support healthy development, and prevent child abuse.
What is home visiting?
100% Federal Poverty Line (FPL), 185% FPL, 200% FPL.
What are the income eligibility cut-offs for Early Head Start/Head Start, Child Care Assistance Program, and Preschool for All respectively?
Safe, developmentally appropriate, child-centered environment
What is the bare minimum for quality indicators?
The care and education setting where the largest share of infants and toddlers spend their day.
What is family child care? OR
What is home-based care?
The year that Head Start Legislation was established and prompted the development of Erikson Institute.
What is 1965?
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What is Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting?
What is the federally funded home visiting program?
Most providers have to incorporate these two strategies to provide a full day and full year of care for working families.
What is blended and braided funding?
Identity-informed and family-based markers of quality.
What are:
Culturally and linguistically responsive practices
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Robust family engagement?
Publicly-funded clinical interventions for infants and toddlers demonstrating a 30% developmental delay. Services are administered until their third birthday.
What is Early Intervention?
The year that Illinois passes "Preschool for All" becoming the first state in the nation to include 3 and 4 year-olds in state funded preschool.
What is 2006?
Erikson's collaboration with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to provide case management for early childhood services with children involved in the child welfare system.
What is the Early Childhood Project?
Requires parents to be employed or pursuing an approved training or education program to be eligible for this program that provides child care from birth to age 12.
What is Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP)?
The most essential component of quality to look for in early care and education.
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