Division for Early Childhood 2024 Conference

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Calling all leaders who prepare and support service coordinators! Join us for a pre-conference session focused on ways to elevate equitable training, preparation, and retention of service coordinators in early intervention. Bring your favorite tools/resources to share and be ready to discuss strengths, challenges, and ideas to prepare, recruit, train, and retain service coordinators who provide high quality support to children and families.  Participants will gain new tools, ideas and resources to apply in their state/program AND be part of DEC’s efforts to recognize service coordinators as important professionals through ongoing professional development and a future service coordination certificate program.

Birth-5 professionals aim to tailor outreach efforts, but more dialogue is needed on families with an incarcerated parent. We highlight cross-disciplinary literature and insights from a survey of incarcerated mothers and fathers’ parenting self-efficacy and readiness to reunify with their child. We discuss implications for tailoring support during and post incarceration.

Early learning guidelines (ELGs) provide a framework for early childhood educators to support children’s learning and development. However, it is unclear how ELGs promote STEM learning for all infants and toddlers. Come and learn how STEM learning has been included in each state’s ELGs and discuss ideas for future research and refinement of ELGs.

Presenters will share how they have assembled a strategic planning framework to support school
districts throughout South Carolina in building their capacity to increase inclusive opportunities for
preschool children. This poster will focus on the steps of this framework, including laying the
groundwork, building collaborative teams, and the strategic planning process.