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Screenings help identify potential health or developmental issues early in life. This enables timely intervention and support, optimizing a child’s potential for healthy growth and learning. Regular screenings can detect problems related to hearing, vision, and physical growth, as well as cognitive, emotional, and social development.
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Comprehensive screening and connection programs increase families’ connections to needed services, support parental health, and may enhance optimal child health and development.
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High-quality and reliable child care is a vital resource for families and communities, often determining parents’ ability to work or pursue education or training—all avenues that could help them provide for their families. However, the
State earned income tax credits (EITCs) provide financial support to low and moderate-income families, offering relief that can reduce poverty and improve economic stability. Research shows that access to supports such as EITCs can lead
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Early childhood educators are vital to shaping the development of young children, but despite the significant responsibility of nurturing young learners, many educators earn wages that fall far below a living wage. In this brief,
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The North Texas early care and education (ECE) workforce plays a vital role in supporting children, families, and the economy. This report examines demographics and experiences of the ECE workforce, as well as the supply of child care programs they support.
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Tarrant County needs about 2,000 more early childhood educators to fully staff existing child care centers. That shortage makes it harder for parents — especially mothers — to work, according to a new study analyzing
