Promoting healthy childhood development and family engagement

Promoting children’s healthy development and family engagement Michelle Figlar Deputy Secretary Office of Child Development and Early Learning

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Children with 4+ Adverse Childhood Experiences have 2x the risk for 5 of 10 leading causes of death in adults including Cardiovascular Diabetes Cancer disease

A consistent, caring relationship with a supportive adult can mitigate these experiences

Roy Wade, Jr. MD, PhD, MPH Children's Hospital of

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OUR PRIORITIES

Tom Wolf, Governor Pedro Rivera, Secretary of Education | Ted Dallas, Secretary of Human Services > 3 Promoting healthy childhood development and family engagement Elements of high quality early learning • Highly skilled providers • Age-appropriate curricula and stimulating materials in a safe and healthy physical setting • A language-rich environment • Warm, responsive interactions • High and consistent levels of child participation • Small class sizes and high adult-to-child ratios

- Center on the Developing Child Harvard University

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Not enough children in have access to high quality early learning programs.

Of the nearly 730,000 children under five living in PA:

Participate in publicly-funded high quality early learning programs such as: • Evidence-based home visiting • Keystone STAR 3 & 4 17% programs • Head Start • Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts

Source: 2014-15 OCDEL Reach and Risk Data. Includes: Nurse-Family Partnership, Healthy Families America, Parents as Teachers, Head Start, Pre-K Counts, Keystone STARS 3 and 4 programs

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Children are at 45% Children are at 30% Moderate-High of children under age five Moderate-Low risk of children under age five participate in publicly- participate in publicly- risk of failing in funded quality early of failing in school funded quality early school education programs education programs 71% 30% 68% 16% live in of infants and live in of infants and economically at- economically at- toddlers served risk families toddlers served risk families

40% 65% 33% 49% of 3rd graders scored of preschoolers of 3rd graders scored of preschoolers below proficient on served below proficient on served their Reading PSSA their Reading PSSA 2014-15 OCDEL Reach and Risk Tom Wolf, Governor Pedro Rivera, Secretary of Education | Ted Dallas, Secretary of Human Services > 6 Promoting healthy childhood development and family engagement

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Governor’s 2016-17 budget proposal • $10m increase for Home Visiting • Proposal to welcome Family Centers into OCDEL • $90m increase for Pre-K Counts and Head Start Supplemental

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Of mothers surveyed who participated in a MIECHV-funded home visiting program in PA in 2015: • 90% of children screened showed at least age- appropriate development in general cognitive and communications skills after 18 months in the programs • 75% increased their involvement in their child’s development • 70% reported a positive change in their relationship with their children Tom Wolf, Governor Pedro Rivera, Secretary of Education | Ted Dallas, Secretary of Human Services > 9 Promoting healthy childhood development and family engagement

What’s the issue? $10,640 Average annual fee for infant center-based care in PA 2015

$20,250 Average income of child care worker in PA 2015

If families can’t afford it

Programs can’t charge for it

Program quality suffers

Children’s development suffers

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What can we do? • Understand true cost of care • Better align subsidy with true cost of care • Align financial and other supports to help programs improve quality • Better support a quality early childhood education workforce • Shared services • Support public-private partnerships

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Governor’s 2016-17 budget proposal • $12m increase in Child Care Works to serve an additional 2,300 children from the waiting list • Revise Keystone STARS • ECE Workforce Study

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Providing children with high-quality early learning services means:

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