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PITC Partners for Quality
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WestEd's Center for Child and Family Studies is working with the California Department of Education (CDE) to increase the supply and quality of infant/toddler child care and development services in California, funded by federal child care and development monies earmarked for infant/toddler capacity building.
Components of California's groundbreaking endeavor include:
- recruiting and training new and existing family child care and center-based infant/toddler providers;
- developing an infrastructure at the local and regional levels to increase the supply and quality of services for children 0-3 with disabilities as well as typically developing children; and
- creating an infrastructure to support training and technical assistance for family child care and center-based programs serving infants and toddlers.
WestEd also directs a variety of outreach efforts in which Regional Trainer/Coordinators and other staff work with local child care organizations responsible for improving the quality and availability of professional care for children 0-3 and their families. Included in outreach efforts are organizations such as child care resource and referral agencies, local child care planning councils, county Proposition 10 commissions, early intervention programs, and local affiliates of the California Association for the Education of Young Children.
The Regional Trainer/Coordinators are responsible for coordinating PITC Partners for Quality training in their respective regions, providing as well as supporting PITC Partners for Quality trainers in providing comprehensive technical assistance and training to centers, family child care homes, and in-home care providers serving children 0-3 and their families. PITC Partners for Quality trainers are certified graduates of the PITC module training institutes who receive a stipend for working with local child care programs. PITC Partners for Quality funding also supports conference presentations on the PITC philosophy and program topics.
PITC Demonstration Programs are being developed at five community college campuses in various regions of California. A collaboration among the Community College Chancellor's Office, WestEd, and the California Department of Education, this project provides demonstration sites where PITC training institute participants, early childhood education students, program managers, policymakers, and other visitors can unobtrusively observe the PITC philosophy of infant/toddler care in action.
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Center for Child & Family Studies