INFANT-TODDLER
COMMUNICATIONS
Effective Communication About the Early Years: Understanding the Basics of Framing 
This article from the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center is designed to provide infant-toddler professionals and researchers with a basic introduction to some concepts of effective communications.
Effective Communication About the Early Years: The Elements of the Frame - Part One
Part two of the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center series begins to break down the process of reframing a message by examining the strategic elements that comprise a frame. The elements of a frame help people understand new information by providing cues for how to interpret the communication.
Effective Communication About the Early Years: The Elements of the Frame - Part Two
The last in the series, this article from the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center looks at the elements of a frame and the ways in which infant-toddler advocates can use these elements effectively in communicating with policy makers.
Framing the Birth to Three Agenda: Lessons Learned from Pre-K Campaigns
This Cultural Logic report published by the ZERO TO THREE Policy Center examines messages about universal pre-kindergarten and the impact they have on the birth to three agenda.
FINANCING
Developing Fiscal Analyses and Children's Budgets to Support ECCS
This National Center for Children in Poverty Project THRIVE brief offers practical advice on conducting fiscal scans and creating early childhood budgets. Using a "how to" approach, this document features exemplary approaches, tables and tools that highlight state and local experience in fiscal analysis.
Illinois' Infant Toddler Set-Aside: What it is and How it Works to Promote School Readiness
In this paper, the Ounce of Prevention Fund discusses the Illinois Early Childhood Education Block Grant, the creation of the set-aside for infants and toddlers, and the types of services funded through the set-aside.
INFANT AND TODDLER SPECIALISTS
Infant/Toddler Specialists - State Initiatives 
States are using to support childcare providers serving infants and toddlers is to provide training and technical assistance through infant/toddler specialists. This summary by the National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative provides information from selected state initiatives about their infant/toddler specialist programs.
Key Steps for Creating an Infant/Toddler Specialist Network
In this brief, the National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative synthesizes information from conversations and interviews with infant/toddler specialist network representatives and identifies key steps for creating an infant/toddler specialist network.
POLICY AND ADVOCACY
Infant and Toddler Policy Agenda (diagram)
The ZERO TO THREE Policy Center diagram illustrates how policy issues contribute to good child health, strong families and positive early learning experiences.
PROFESSIONAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Curricula/Teaching Approaches for Infant/Toddler Care and Education
Well-planned, evidence-based curriculum can contribute significantly to positive outcomes for all children. This paper prepared by the National Child Care Information Center provides information about select research-based curricula/teaching approaches for infant and toddler caregivers in child care centers and family childcare.
Lessons Learned: The Bush Foundation Infant/Toddler Development Program Turns 10
This report documents the 10-year effort of the Bush Foundation to support the development of statewide training for infant/toddler caregivers in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
GENERAL RESOURCES
National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative at ZERO TO THREE 
The website of the National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative at ZERO TO THREE provides comprehensive information about state infant/toddler systems work and existing infant and toddler child care initiatives. The site also includes fact sheets, technical assistance papers, issue briefs and presentations about building early care and education systems that support quality care for babies and toddlers.
National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative State Information
This section of the National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative website provides state and territory profiles with demographic information about children birth to three and their families, as well as the child care system that serves them. Users access the profiles by clicking on the map.
Resource Toolkit for Programs Serving Infants, Toddlers and Their Families: Implementing a Research-Based Program Model
The Illinois Early Learning Council's Birth to Three Program Quality Workgroup prepared this resource toolkit to help local programs make informed decisions about implementing a research-based program model. The Toolkit provides in-depth information on a variety of models and references to additional materials.
ARCHIVED INFANT AND TODDLER MATERIALS
Establishing an Integrated and Coordinated System for Infants, Toddlers, and their Families in Pennsylvania
In the summer of 2005, the Pennsylvania Build Initiative focused on its goal of creating a strategic plan to promote the development of infants and toddlers. This report presents the culmination of those efforts, provides the overall objectives of the Pennsylvania Strategic Plan, and includes background information and data gathering efforts that led to the development of a two-year work plan for implementation starting January 2006.
A Champion for Babies: An Interview with Joan Lombardi (2001)
This Zero to Three article features an interview with Joan Lombardi, one of the nation's leading experts on early childhood and school age policy issues. The interview focuses on the Better Baby Campaign, a national initiative that encouraged community and state leaders, policy makers, parents and professionals who work with young children to take concrete steps to improve the early care of infants and toddlers.
