Healthy Birthweight:
Babies’ birthweight and other birth outcomes affect their health, development and learning during the early years, which impacts third grade…
Social-Emotional Health:
Social-emotional health in young children means successfully developing the capacity to:Form secure relationships
Experience and regulate emotions
Explore and…
Physical Health:
Children’s overall development during the first eight years of life is strongly affected by their health. Experiences during this time…
Early Intervention Policy:
Children who receive early and regular developmental screenings and access to high quality early intervention services to address developmental delays…
Families & Communities
Parent-Child Interactions:
Starting at birth, responsive back and forth interactions with parents and caregivers build babies’ brains and promote attachment and a…
Reading with Children:
Reading regularly with a parent or caregiver improves young children’s language development, early reading skills, and school readiness. Hearing the…
Supports for Families:
Formal and informal services and supports help families promote their children’s good health, on-track development and school success.
Formal Supports…
Safe at Home:
Children’s brains are built from the bottom up, starting at birth, and strong, nurturing connections with the adults in their…
Education
High Quality Early Care and Education:
Young children’s learning happens in a variety of settings. For the purposes of this webpage, early care and education refers…
Regular School Attendance:
Consistent school attendance in the early grades improves children’s learning and achievement.
Chronic absenteeism is an early predictor of student…
Promotion to Next Grade:
Grade retention is requiring that a student re-enroll in the same grade for a second year. As of January 2018,…
Summer Learning:
We know children work hard in school and they learn a lot. Every summer we need to ensure our students…
Policy
Local Policy and Practice:
At the local level, policies that affect young children and families happen through the implementation of federal and state laws.…
National Research and Policy:
Federal early childhood laws, policies and regulations impact state and local actions in North Carolina. National research and innovation can…
State Policy and Practice:
State-level policies and practices directly impact the lives of young children and their families in North Carolina. State rules and…