Vermont’s State Advisory Council endorses early childhood policy recommendations for 2023

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Contact: Dr. Morgan Crossman, Government Director, Constructing Shiny Futures
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Vermont’s State Advisory Council Endorses Early Childhood Coverage Suggestions for 2023

Oct. 25, 2022 (RUTLAND, Vt.)—On Oct. 24, Vermont’s State Advisory Council (SAC) formally endorsed the Coverage Suggestions of the Vermont Early Childhood State Advisory Council Community for 2023. These suggestions signify essentially the most urgent priorities and challenges recognized by early childhood stakeholders and are a part of the SAC’s state and federal cost to advise the Governor, Administration, and legislature. The suggestions search to determine the present gaps and wishes in coverage, promote and monitor motion in strategic areas for the approaching 12 months, and transfer Vermont towards a extra equitable early childhood system.

The SAC is Vermont’s Governor-appointed, major advisory physique on the well-being of youngsters from the prenatal interval to age 8 and their households. Along with the SAC, the Vermont Early Childhood State Advisory Council Community contains seven Vermont Early Childhood Motion Plan (VECAP) Committees and 12 Regional Councils. The SAC units priorities and strategic course for statewide initiatives utilizing the VECAP and essentially the most high-quality, up-to-date information.
The Community is run by Constructing Shiny Futures (BBF), Vermont’s early childhood public-private partnership.

“I’m happy with the work that the Community—together with numerous state leaders, dad and mom, early childhood professionals, regional companions, and others—put into creating and formally endorsing the 2023 Coverage Suggestions,” BBF Government Director Morgan Crossman mentioned. “We stay up for monitoring progress on implementing these suggestions as Vermont strives towards constructing the very best high quality, most inclusive and equitable early childhood system attainable.”

This 12 months’s suggestions deal with a wide selection of priorities for enhancing the well-being of younger youngsters and their households, strengthening the standard of the settings and providers wherein they spend their time, and supporting the early childhood professionals who serve them. From higher supporting the psychological well being workforce to selling the worth of care coordination, this 12 months’s coverage suggestions signify wants and rising priorities from throughout the state’s early childhood system.

These priorities embrace investing within the present early childhood training workforce; offering commensurate compensation for households taking part in engagement, management, or suggestions alternatives; supporting households who’re unhoused or experiencing housing transitions by investing in trauma-responsive shelters, transitional housing, transportation assets, and associated staffing; and responding to inequities in information assortment and reporting with the intention to higher signify and perceive the intersectional experiences of individuals of shade, youngsters with disabilities, and different marginalized communities in Vermont.

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The mission of Constructing Shiny Futures (BBF) is to enhance the well-being of each little one and household in Vermont by utilizing proof to tell coverage and bringing voices collectively to debate essential challenges and drawback resolve. Constructing Shiny Futures (BBF) is Vermont’s early childhood public-private partnership, charged beneath Vermont Title 33 § Chapter 46 and the Federal Head Begin Act (Public Regulation 110-134) as Vermont’s Early Childhood State Advisory Council (SAC), the mechanism used to advise the Governor and Legislature on the well-being of youngsters within the prenatal interval via age 8 and their households. BBF’s Community infrastructure contains 12 Regional Councils, seven VECAP Committees, and the State Advisory Council. BBF maintains the imaginative and prescient and strategic plan for Vermont’s Early Childhood System. Be taught extra at buildingbrightfutures.org.