As I navigated through the website that I had chosen I noticed that there were several outside links. Some of the outside links were the National Infant & Toddler Childcare Initiative, Military Family Projects, National Training Institute and Early Head Start. I navigated to all of them but I really took a look at the National Infant & Toddler childcare initiative website. This site is a project of the office of childcare. They work to advance system initiatives and to improve the quality and supply of infant/toddler care. There are publications, webinars, resources, events and e newsletters on the site. This website has a wealth of information.
I recieved three e newsletters this week. One of the e newsletters reminded me of what we have been studying about access, availability, and affordability. The name of the e newsletter was The Total Budget Amount Matters. This newsletter discussed the federal budget and the many cuts that were going to take place, some in early childhood education. There was a video link that showed where things stand in the budget and what comes next as congress sets the 2012 federal budget especially when it comes to early childhood education. This newsletter was very informative and showed you how to have a voice in the decision making for the budget. I learned that the many things that they want to cut from the budget are the things that help our low income, at risk children. Things like medicaid, foodstamps, and wic. If these are things that we have ever had to use or have never used but one day might have to we need to stand up and voice our opinion on the budget.
Great Post! It seems like the site you picked has a lot of outside resources. Many of the resources that you listed are really useful and informative! I am learning more about the website Education World which really does not have many outside links for its viewers.
ReplyDeleteI too chose the Zero to Three organization at the beginning of the course and did some more research on their website this week. I was interested to hear a little bit more about the National Infant & Toddler Childcare Initiative site as well. Zero to Three certainly does promote a variety of links to supporting organizations. I'll have to look for that e-newsletter, it's sounds informative for future funding possibilities.
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