Several of South Carolina’s leading children’s advocacy organizations released the 2017 Early Childhood Common Agenda on Feb. 2—urging state leaders to support working families and improve access to high-quality preschool and child care, to pass new tax credits for families,…
Keller Anne Ruble, Associate for Policy Research What would you do with an extra $1,000 at tax time? Buy that new 4K TV you’ve been eyeing? Take an awesome vacation and relax? For many working families, tax time doesn’t afford…
We’re excited to announce that ICS is again opening its competition for Pay for Success Technical Assistance focused on early childhood programs. ICS’s technical assistance will help states and local governments determine whether to pursue PFS financing to expand services…
It was a proud day for ICS when South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced the Nurse–Family Partnership Pay for Success Project back in February. ICS had been a key proponent of this project from its early days, conducting the feasibility…
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…
They gathered in an unlikely location, the former Middleton Place plantation in Charleston, S.C., in October for ICS’s Race, Justice and the Young Child leadership seminar: social workers, poets, childcare providers, child abuse prevention advocates, policymakers, and other leaders passionate…
By J.M. Gruendel, ICS Senior Fellow This week, the Puerto Rico Department of Health reported that more than 22,300 of its residents were infected with the Zika virus. Among those Zika-infected individuals, 1,871 were pregnant women. Contracting the Zika virus…
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…