ICS provides technical assistance and resources on utilizing Pay for Success financing for early childhood programs. Often, this work is focused on home-visiting services, high-quality preschool, or expanding evidence-based child welfare models. As ICS's Bryan Boroughs and AmericaForward's Nicole Truhe…
How can educators, health leaders and communities help more parents learn to work with their children to prepare them to be healthy, and for school and life? That was a key question on Day 2 of ICS’s fourth annual Early…
The significance of the moment for ICS and its partners was not lost on the roughly 230 people gathered in Charlotte this week for the 4th annual ICS Early Childhood Research Symposium. After touring the expanding early childhood services in…
By Alan Richard Interest has grown in the presidential race and on Capitol Hill over possible expansions of Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs). ICS recently convened an expert panel in Washington to discuss how leaders might weigh EITCs’ impact on…
To subscribe to ICS's monthly newsletter, sign up here. Notable Keynote Presenters Announced for Early Childhood Research Symposium ICS is very proud to feature Dr. Ronald Ferguson and Dr. Marion Broome as keynote speakers for the 2016 Early Childhood Research Symposium.…
To subscribe to ICS’s monthly newsletter, sign up here. ICS Key Proponent in Bringing "Pay for Success" Financing to South Carolina It has been a tremendous week for the young children and their families of South Carolina! Governor Nikki Haley…
By Megan Carolan, Associate Director for Policy Research States demonstrated a commitment to providing education to young children in the 2014-2015 budget year, according to a new report from the Education Commission of the States. Their annual funding report, which…
Five years ago, leaders associated with the United Way of Greenville County and the Children’s Hospital of the Greenville Health System came together to address a seemingly pervasive dilemma: that despite decades of private and public investment and the good…
By Megan Carolan, Associate Director for Policy Research In December, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) released information from a detailed poll of Americans which found overwhelming support for early childhood education. As our colleagues at…
By Dr. Janice Gruendel, Senior Fellow, Institute for Child Success; Fellow, Zigler Center in Child Development & Social Policy, Yale University and Heather Baker, Manager, Public Consulting Group We all love babies. We are wired, both men and women, to lean in,…