Newspapers in Bend, Medford, Eugene, Portland, and Salem have all recently made the case for increased investments in early learning and child care in Oregon. The Bulletin: Strong Connection Between High-Quality Child Care and Healthy Communities, by Kendra Coates,...
In response to community concerns, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) studied the need for culturally responsive preschool programs to serve immigrant and refugee families in the Portland Metropolitan area. IRCO works to support the needs of...
Early childhood advocates around the country are celebrating the 2018 Omnibus spending bill recently passed by Congress and signed by President Trump. The bill contains a $2.37 billion increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the largest...
Your income shouldn’t determine whether you can visit a doctor or nurse, or get medicine when you’re sick. Measure 101 protects health care for vulnerable Oregonians, including seniors, people with disabilities, and 400,000 children. That’s why Children's Institute...
Invitation Organizations and consultants are invited to submit one response to the Children’s Institute’s Kindergarten Readiness Family Focus Groups Request for Proposal (RFP). To submit a proposal, applicants must comply with the instructions contained in this...
MIECHV funds high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services in Oregon's voluntary home visiting system.You can help renew federal funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program by taking three actions. CALL your members of...
Read the full story on Oregonlive. "There's an incredible need, across the board," said Danielle Pacifico-Cogan, director of communications and community engagement at the Children's Institute, a Portland-based non-profit that advocates for young children. This...
The Department of Education has published an unprecedented look at chronic absenteeism, a huge educational crisis in the United States. While early learning is not called out specifically in the study, we know that chronic absence in kindergarten is a...
Read the full story in the Bend Bulletin. “Even at 200 percent, we’re still not going to be reaching enough of the low-income families that should have access to preschool,” Rafael Otto, senior communications and policy associate with the Children’s Institute said....
Stanford professor Sean Reardon is the keynote speaker at Children’s Institute’s Make It Your Business Luncheon on May 18, 2017. Reardon, a Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic...
