Office of Child Development and Early Learning

1. Office of Child Developmentand Early Learning Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

2. The Bigger Picture • Out of the 30 countries taking part in the 2003 Program for International Student Assessment, the average score of US students was only higher than students in five other countries. [Education Week, “Losing Global Ground,” January 2007] • China produced nearly 3 times more engineering and computer science graduates than the U.S. in 2004. [Source: Duke University] Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

3. Things must change • “The growth in the quality of the workforce, which was a mainstay of economic growth until recently, has diminished. This trend must change or America’s economy will be undermined,” James Heckman, University of Chicago, press release, 11/15/06 Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

4. Why quality early learning matters: a snapshot of PA • In 2007: • 21.5% of 3rd graders not proficient in math (46.3% of 11th graders not proficient) • 27.2% of 3rd graders not proficient in reading (34.6% of 11th graders not proficient) • Approx. 20% of high school students fail to graduate Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

5. Snapshot of PA’s investment in early education • Pennsylvania around the middle among U.S. states in investment in a quality early education system • About 26% of Pennsylvania’s children ages 0-5 have access to publicly-funded early education Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

6. Benefits of quality early learning • Quality early learning: • Promotes positive brain development • Strengthens families • Promotes school readiness • Prepares today’s children for tomorrow’s competitive workforce • Saves tax dollars • Contributes to long-term economic growth Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

7. Quality early learning promotes positive brain development • "The brain undergoes its most rapid development in the first three years of life, and in this development the environment plays a central role. Nerve connections that are associated with specific skills such as language are developed during this critical period." [Source: American Academy of Pediatrics] Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

8. Neglect hurts brain development • “The systems in the human brain that allow us to form and maintain emotional relationships develop during infancy and the first years of life… with severe emotional neglect in early childhood the impact can be devastating.” [Source: Perry, B.D. (2002) Bonding and attachment in maltreated children: consequences of emotional neglect in childhood. Child Trauma Academy Press, 3, 1-30.] Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

9. How many words did you hear? • The average 4-year old hears how many spoken words? • In a family receiving welfare-13 million • In a working-class family - 26 million • In a professional family - almost 45 million Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

10. Quality early learning strengthens families • “I’ve noticed that the parents of children from pre-kindergarten programs are more supportive of their children’s education. I have noticed that those parents have followed through on all work sent home this year and often went past what I asked for because they had ideas of what to do and knew that working with their child helped their child.” Susan Straley, kindergarten teacher, Bellefonte Elementary School Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

11. Strengthens families, cont’d • High quality in-home parent coaching services that begin when the mother is pregnant, such as Pennsylvania’s Nurse Family Partnership, can cut cases of child abuse and neglect nearly in half. [Source: “Protect Kids: Reduce Crime: Save Money: Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect in Pennsylvania,” Fight Crime Invest in Kids, December 2006] Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

12. Quality early learning promotes school readiness • Allegheny Early Childhood Initiative (ECI) • At risk children in quality pre-kindergarten in child care programs • Special education rates: • Pre-k children: 21%; ECI children: < 1% • Grade retention: • Pre-k children: 23%; ECI children: < 2% Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

13. Promotes school readiness, cont’d • Pre K Counts Public-Private Partnership – Child Outcomes, Interim Report 2005-2007 • Pre K Counts children showed significant progress in acquiring early learning skills during their participation, particularly those who were at risk of school failure. • The total number of children with at-risk or delayed development were reduced by 50% after participation in Pre K Counts. www.prekcounts.org Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

14. Quality early learning saves tax dollars • “Every $1 spent on high quality early education saves $7 in reduced future expenditures for special education, delinquency, crime control, welfare, and lost taxes (Reynolds AJ, Temple JA, Robertson DL, and EA Mann. 2002. Age 21 cost-benefit analysis of the Title I Chicago Child-Parent Centers. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24, 267-303.) Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

15. Quality early education prepares tomorrow’s workforce • Quality early education not only prepares children for success in school, it can instill values like personal responsibility and pride in one’s work that can make the difference between an average employee and a real achiever [Source: National Institute for Early Education Research, “Overlooked Benefits of Pre-kindergarten,” 2005.] Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

16. Quality early education contributes to long-term economic growth • Children who attend quality pre-kindergarten are more likely to be employed and have higher earnings, thus positively contributing to the tax base. Annual rates of return on preschool investments are estimated at 10 percent or higher each year over the students’ lifetimes, exceeding the 6 to 7 percent average rate of return typically expected of government programs and the stock market. [Source: Committee for Economic Development, “The Economic Promise of Investing in High Quality Preschool,” 2006 www.ced.org/docs/report/report_prek_econpromise.pdf] Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

17. Benefit Cost Analysis for Preschool Programs Source: The Economic Promise of Investing in High Quality Preschool,” Committee for Economic Development, 2006, pp 25-26 Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

18. Importance of public investment in quality early education • Quality early education provides public benefits • Higher academic achievement • Offset risk factors like child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency or criminal behavior • Greater tax base • Quality early education is workforce development • Early-childhood education can provide a return on investment greater than the stock market • A quality early education system cannot develop without public investment Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

19. “The best investment in economic development that government and the private sector can make is in the healthy development of children” Art Rolnick, Ph.D, senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

20. “Although education and the acquisition of skills is a lifelong process, starting early in life is crucial. Recent research has documented the high returns that early childhood programs can pay in terms of subsequent educational attainment and in lower rates of social problems, such as teenage pregnancy and welfare dependency.”Ben S. Bernanke, The Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

21. "On the margin, if we're going to invest the next dollar in education and workforce development, we're going to see the highest return if that dollar's invested before children reach kindergarten." Rob Grunewald, associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

22. Office of Child Development and Early Learning The Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) promotes opportunities for all Pennsylvania children and families by building systems and providing supports that help ensure access to high quality child and family services. Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

23. Creating an effective early education system Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

24. Standards for Programs and Practitioners • Certification • Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards • Infant/Toddler • Pre-Kindergarten • Kindergarten • Early Intervention Standards • Head Start Performance Standards • Keystone STARS standards • State Board of Education regulations • ECE Career Lattice Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

25. Support to meet and maintain standards • PA Early Learning Keys to Quality • Early Intervention Technical Assistance • Head Start Collaboration Office • Pre-school Program Specialists Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

26. Systems Planning, Monitoring, and Accountability • OCDEL Accountability • OCDEL Finance, Administration & Planning • Bureau Monitoring Tools • Provider and Practitioner Accountability • Certification • Environmental Rating Scales (ERS) assessors • Keystone STARS Designators • Preschool Program Specialists • Pelican Data System • Early Learning Network Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

27. Financial Supports • Federal • State • Public-Private Partnership Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

28. Engagement & Outreach • OCDEL Advisory Committees • Child Certification Regulation Work Group • Children’s Trust Fund Board • OCDEL Advisory Committee • Keystone STARS Advisory Committee • Parent Advisory Council • State Interagency Coordinating Council • Subsidized Child Care Advisory Committee • Community Engagement Groups • Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children • Public-Private Partnerships Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

29. What makes up an effective early education system? • Quality • Access • Capacity • Leadership at all levels Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

30. OCDEL Highlights: Improved quality • Keystone STARS • Early Learning Standards • State Board of Education regulations • Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

31. OCDEL Highlights: Increased access • Broadened eligibility requirements for receiving Child Care Works • Increased reimbursement rate ceiling (Maximum Child Care Allowance) for child care programs to at least the 62nd percentile for full-time care and to at least the 58th percentile for part-time care. • Unification of child care services under CCIS Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

32. OCDEL Highlights: Increased capacity • More children*, in high quality programs overall: • 2002-2003:18% • 2005-2006: 25% • 2006-2007: 28% • Creation of Office of Child Development and Early Learning between the PA Departments of Education and Public Welfare *based on the percentage of 3 and 4 year olds with access to Head Start, STAR 3 & 4 programs, Preschool Early Intervention and state-funded pre-k. Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

33. OCDEL Highlights: Leadership at all levels • Early Childhood Community Engagement Groups (CEG) • Professional Credential Programs • Pre K Counts Public-Private Partnership for Educational Success Leadership Network Teams and Executive Leadership Council

34. Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

35. OCDEL: Helping children reach their promise • Certifying health and safety of early learning programs • Setting the standard for quality early learning • Supporting the continuous quality improvement of early learning programs • Providing children with special needs and their families supports to grow and develop Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

36. Helping families reach their promise • Helping parents access and choose quality early learning programs • Partnering with parents to support their child’s healthy development • Supporting early learning programs to engage parents in their child’s learning Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

37. Helping teachers reach their promise • Providing a career lattice for early childhood professionals • Providing financial and other supports to send teachers to school for college degrees Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

38. Helping communities reach their promise • Building leadership at all levels – children’s champions • Building early learning systems- statewide and locally Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

39. OCDEL Programs Helping fulfill Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children Because every child is Pennsylvania’s future

40. Certification Services

41. Why Certification Services? • More than 350,000 children in PA receive child care from certified or registered child care programs at some point in their lives. • 4,105 registered family child care homes • 805 certified group child care • 4,001 certified child care centers • Important to protect the health and safety of our young children • Meeting health & safety requirements a necessary foundation to build quality early learning opportunities Certification Services

42. Certification Services at a Glance • Helping children and families reach their promise by certifying the health and safety of certified child care centers, group child care homes and family child care homes. • Four regional offices provide certification services and conduct inspections • Information source for starting up child care programs and for families wanting information on certified child care programs Certification Services

43. Types of facilities regulated by OCDEL • Child Care Center • Group Child Care Home • Family Child Care Home Certification Services

44. Child Care Center • A child care facility in which 7 or more children who are not related to the operator receive child care. • Requires certificate of compliance to legally operate. • Inspected on an annual basis • 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3270, Child Care Centers, available at www.pacode.com. Certification Services

45. Group Child Care Home • A child care facility in which 7 - 12 children of various ages or in which 7-15 children from 4th grade through 15 years of age who are not related to the operator receive child care. • Requires certificate of compliance to legally operate. • Inspected on an annual basis • 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3280, Group Child Care Homes, available at www.pacode.com Certification Services

46. Family Child Care Home • A child care facility located in a home in which 4, 5 or 6 children who are not related to the caregiver receive child care. • Requires certificate of registration to legally operate • Inspected every 2 years and subject to random sample inspections • 55 Pa. Code, Chapter 3290, Family Child Care Homes, available at www.pacode.com Certification Services

47. Regional Offices of Child Development and Early Learning • Four regional field offices • Inspections of child care programs • Technical assistance to programs • Orientation to new programs • Information to potential programs • Information to parents and the public on DPW’s certification regulations and the certification history of child care programs (i.e., complaints, provisional certification) • Complaint investigations Certification Services

48. Info on certified child care facilities • To find out about certified child care facilities in your area: • View a listing of facilities online or Contact your local Child Care Information Services (CCIS) agency • www.dpw.state.pa.us • For information on a child care program’s certification history (complaints, etc.) contact your Regional Office of Child Development and Early Learning Certification Services

49. Info on starting a child care facility • Contact your Regional Office of Child Development and Early Learning • Attend Orientation Session with regional office • Receive info on regulations pertaining to child care facilities Certification Services

50. Regional Offices of Child Development and Early Learning • Western region - 1-800-222-2149 • Central region - 1-800-222-2117 • Northeast region - 1-800-222-2108 • Southeast region - 1-800-346-2929 • More info online at www.dpw.state.pa.us Certification Services