The Voices of Maine's Early Care and Education Teachers: Children with Challenging Behavior in Classrooms and Home-based Child Care

This report presents findings from a survey of Maine’s early care and education (ECE) teachers and providers about their experiences related to young children with challenging behavior. These experiences included young children displaying different types of challenging behavior, children leaving the program due to challenging behavior, and teachers’ and providers’ efforts to address the needs of children experiencing behavior problems. The survey also asked teachers and providers about the resources they need to help them meet the needs of young children with challenging behavior and promote their positive social-emotional development. The Social-Emotional Learning and Development (SELD) Survey was part of a larger study assigned by a committee of the Maine State Legislature to the Maine Children’s Growth Council and two state agencies. In June 2015, the Maine State Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs asked the Maine Children’s Growth Council, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services to undertake a study of conditions affecting the social and emotional learning and development of young children in Maine and develop recommendations to strengthen supports for young children’s well-being and growth in this critical domain. The committee charged the state departments and the Growth Council to establish an ad hoc committee to gather data and information on current policies and programs, as well as young children’s social-emotional status in Maine, and to partner with national organizations to help conduct this work. In addition to the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), which led the design and implementation of the SELD Survey, two other national organizations participated in the larger initiative: Ounce of Prevention and ZERO TO THREE. The Maine Children’s Growth Council led the work of convening stakeholders with an interest in the design of the survey and use of the results to form recommendations. Established by statute in 2008, the Council is charged with promoting sustainable social and financial investments to support the healthy development of Maine’s young children and their families and working with a diverse group of legislators, business leaders, providers, parents, researchers, community leaders, and government offcials to build a unified, statewide early childhood services system. Another key partner in the survey and the larger study was Maine Voices for Children, the state’s leading child advocacy organization. Through its ongoing discussions about policy with stakeholders in the early care and education community, this organization created wider awareness that teachers in early care and education settings were reporting diffculties addressing the needs of young children with challenging behavior. The efforts of Maine Voices for Children to bring this issue to light led to the larger study conducted by the Growth Council in collaboration with the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and to the SELD Survey

Boomers' Retirement Income Prospects

Examines how changing demographics and patterns in lifetime earnings, pension participation, and wealth accumulation among Americans born between 1946 and 1964 will shape baby boomers' economic well-being at age 70

Young Children in Deep Poverty: Racial/Ethnic Disparities and Child Well-Being Compared to Other Income Groups

This report compares early health, development, and risk indicators for young children in deep poverty to indicators for young children in other income groups. The results show that young children in deep poverty experience exceptional challenges that make them vulnerable to poor long-term outcomes. The report also highlights large disparities in the prevalence of deep poverty across five racial/ethnic groups, nationally and state by state.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/gse/1005/thumbnail.jp

Competitive intelligence programmes at French Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Over the last ten years France has implemented regional programmes to increase the awareness of, and change attitudes towards, the Competitive Intelligence (CI) practices of enterprises. The emphasis has been on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI) playing a central role. This is an important part of a national state effort to improve and focus a company’s strategic management of information in both defensive and offensive modes. This report is a summary of 15 semi-structured interviews undertaken with French Chambers of Commerce and Industry in 2009. These form the foundation for future work on identifying the roles of awarenessand attitudes as influence drivers in the competitive intelligence processes of SMEs in France

New York State Profile of Young Children in Deep Poverty

Young children in families experiencing deep poverty – those with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line -- are likely to experience severe early adversities that contribute to poor health and education outcomes. This brief offers information about young children, age birth to nine, living in deep poverty in New York State, and about policies that could support their healthy development and success. It includes information about the state and county-level prevalence and characteristics of these children and recommendations for strengthening family and work support policies and developing new two-generation policies that could promote better outcomes for young children and families in deep poverty

How States Use Medicaid to Cover Key Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Services: Results of a 50-State Survey (2018 Update)

There is now substantial evidence that young children’s mental health plays a critical role in their early learning and school readiness, long-term school success and self-sufficiency, and future health and mental health outcomes. Fortunately, many states are working to strengthen supports for infants’ and young children’s mental health. This brief examines states’ Medicaid coverage for key infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) services, along with policies that contribute to service access and quality. It presents the results of an updated 50-state survey that gathered information from state administrators about Medicaid coverage and policies related to the following services for children from birth to age 6: Child screening for social-emotional problems; Maternal depression screening in pediatric and family medicine settings; Developmentally appropriate diagnosis using DC:0–5; Family navigators to help families access services; Mental health services in pediatric, child care and early education, and home settings; Dyadic (parent-child) treatment; Parenting programs to address child mental health need

Learning about Young Children's Challenging Behavior and Impacts on Programs and Families: A State-wide Survey of Virginia's Early Care and Education Teachers

This report presents the efforts of leaders in Virginia to learn more about teachers’ experience with children who demonstrate challenging behavior in center-based and home-based ECE settings. These leaders partnered with the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) to design and implement a survey of Virginia’s ECE teachers that serve infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The survey and analysis of responses examined the following questions: How common are different types of challenging behavior? How many children with challenging behavior, in different age groups, do teachers have in their classrooms or child care homes in the course of a year? What are the consequences of challenging behavior, and how often does removal from the ECE setting occur? What are the family circumstances of children with challenging behavior? How do teachers address challenging behavior and what barriers do they face? What factors contribute to the incidence of children with challenging behavior and removal from programs? What supports do teachers believe will help them address the needs of children with challenging behavior

Using Medicaid to Help Young Children and Parents Access Mental Health Services: Results of a 50-State Survey (Updated March 2017)

As states work to strengthen supports for young children's mental health, often with the goal of reducing the incidence of costly conditions at later ages, they face the question of how to finance new or expanded services. This brief examines states' use of Medicaid as a key source of funding for early childhood mental health (ECMH) services. It presents the results of a 50-state survey that gathered information from state administrators about Medicaid coverage and related policies concerning the following services for children from birth to age 6: Child screening for social-emotional problems; Maternal depression screening in pediatric and family medicine settings; Mental health services in a pediatric or family medicine setting; Mental health services in child care and early education settings; Mental health services in the home setting; Dyadic (parent-child) treatment; Parenting programs to address child mental health needs; Case management/care coordinatio

The Effect of Dispersed Oil on the Calcification Rate of the Reef-Building Coral Diploria Strigosa

Hermatypic corals represent environmentally and economically important components of the reef ecosystem. Oil spills and clean-up operations in reef areas are potential sources of pollution impact. This paper presents an evaluation of the calcification rate of specimens of the reef-building coral Diploria strigosa in response to 24 hour treatments of chemically dispersed oil at concentrations of 20 ppm. The concentrations and durations were chosen to represent a scenario of a short-term oil spill treated with dispersant passing over a coral reef. Calcification rates were determined by the buoyant weight technique at several day intervals for up to 29 days following treatment. Results from laboratory experiments (Winter and Summer) conducted in a flow-through seawater system indicate that treated corals, both in comparison to untreated controls as well as to their pretreatment rates, experienced no depression in calcification. In contrast, a possible short-term enhancement of calcification for the treated corals was observed

The Effects of Oil and Oil Dispersants on the Skeletal Growth of the Hermatypic Coral Diploria strigosa

Specimens of the hermatypic coral species Diploria strigosa were exposed to various concentrations (1–50 ppm) of oil or oil plus dispersant for 6–24 h periods in four laboratory and two field experiments. After dosing, corals were transplanted to, or left in, the field and recollected approximately one year later for extension (linear) growth analysis by the alizarin stain method. The experiments were designed to assess the long-term effects of brief low-level concentrations of chemically dispersed oil and oil alone on corals in a situation, for example, where an oil slick (treated and non-treated with dispersants) passes over a reef. No significant differences between extension growth parameters (Septa increase, Columella increase) and a calical shape parameter (New Endotheca Length) of treated corals versus controls were found in any of the experiments. In two summer experiments calical relief (Fossa length) was found to be depressed in corals of some of the experimental treatments