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Our Clearinghouse offers comprehensive support for early childhood care and education, covering a wide range of settings such as centers, homes, family and friend arrangements, and programs like Head Start and Pre-K.
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ELQA Starting Right – CECPD
Child Development
The goal of ELQA: Starting Right is to improve access to and use of high-quality early literacy and numeracy measurements and scientifically based strategies for differentiated instruction in preschools and childcare centers.
Children, Caregivers, Administrators, Teachers
2023
Promising Practice
Autism Foundation of Oklahoma – Training Oklahoma Childcare Providers to Support Children with Autism (TOCA)
Social Emotional Well-Being
Providing comprehensive training to consultants and childcare providers improves the quality of care for children with autism, offering tailored support to address their unique needs.
Caregivers, Children, Guardians, Owners, Parents, Teachers
2023
Innovative Idea
Air Quality in Oklahoma Early Childhood Settings
Healthy Environment and Relationships
The overall goals of this project are to investigate the efficacy, implementation, and cost effectiveness of using two air disinfection solutions in ECE classrooms: (1) indoor air purifier, and/or (2) upper air disinfection utilizing germicidal ultraviolet light (UV-C).
Children, Teachers
2023
Innovative Idea
Respectful Caregiving - OKAEYC
Child Development
The proposed workshop series, a collaborative effort between the Oklahoma Association for the Education of Young Children and certified trainers, seeks to empower caregivers with vital insights into the paramount significance of this early phase.
Children, Guardians, Parents, Teachers
2023
Well Supported by Research
Conscious Discipline
Social and Emotional Learning
Conscious Discipline’s adult-first, child-second approach equips educators with the mindset and skillsets needed to internalize and dramatically upgrade their own social and emotional aptitudes.
Caregivers, Guardians, Administrators, Owners, Children, Teachers, Parents
2021
Promising Research
Al’s Pals Kids Making Healthy Choices
Social and Emotional Learning
The goal of this project is to ensure the healthy development and social emotional well-being of young children ages 5 and below throughout Oklahoma through the promotion of the Reach Out and Read (ROR) intervention, designed to foster intentional skill-building in parents, resilience in families, and positive bonding between children and families, integrated into pediatric primary care.
Children, Teachers, Owners, Caregivers, Guardians, Administrators, Parents
2021
Additional Research Needed
Supporting Data-driven Improvements in Early Education
Social and Emotional Learning
This proposal provides a framework to support continuous improvement for early education programs that utilizes classroom and child data to identify existing strengths and appropriate areas for coaching and development.
Children, Teachers, Caregivers
2021
Well Supported by Research
Reach Out and Read
Social and Emotional Learning
The goal of this project is to ensure the healthy development and social emotional well-being of young children ages 5 and below throughout Oklahoma through the promotion of the Reach Out and Read (ROR) intervention.
Caregivers, Guardians, Children, Parents, Medical Providers
2021
Promising Practice
Developmental Monitoring Resources and Support for Early Care and Learning Providers
Child Development
The ultimate desired outcome of this project is to identify children with potential delays as early as possible and ensure that they are connected to available resources and fully included and supported in childcare settings.
Teachers, Caregivers, Parents
2022
Best Practice
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Program Expansion (I-ECMHC)
Child Development
As a Prevention strategy, the goal of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health is to support the development of infants and young children through strengthening the responsive capacity of their caregivers and promoting safe, stable, nurturing environments.
Children, Caregivers, Guardians, Parents, Owners, Administrators, Teachers
2022
Best Practice
Growing Like a Read
Child Development
With financial support, the Pioneer Library System’s GLAR program could be extended even further beyond the walls of the libraries to childcare providers in low-income areas of the PLS three-county service area.
Children, Caregivers, Guardians, Parents
2022
Emerging Practice
Start Right – Finish Ahead
Social Emotional Learning
The goal of this this submission is to provide a 1-2 year program that has been tested for more than ten years in numbers of settings (homes, learning centers, schools, etc) for the EC age child.
Children, Teachers, Owners, Caregivers, Guardians, Administrators, Parents
2021
Innovative Idea
Community of Support for Early Childhood Communities
Social Emotional Learning
The primary outcome for this submission is to increase support for early childhood communities in the area of autism and related disabilities by creating a statewide community of specially trained providers. The Autism Foundation of Oklahoma (AFO) will use the Training of Trainers Model to achieve this goal, recommended by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2019).
Children, Teachers, Owners, Caregivers, Guardians, Medical Providers, Administrators, Parents
2021
Innovative Idea
Children's Sanctuary at Palomar, Oklahoma City's Family Justice Center
Social Emotional Learning
Palomar has a tremendous goal: to unify all possible services a victim and their children may need and make them easily accessible by housing them in one convenient location.
Children, Caregivers, Guardians, Parents
2021
Innovative Idea
Early Birds for Child Care Professionals, Smart Start Central Oklahoma
Child Development
Smart Start Central Oklahoma’s primary goal is to build a supportive and involved community that works to ensure children are safe, healthy, eager to learn, and ready to succeed by the time they enter school.
Children, Teachers, Owners, Caregivers, Guardians, Parents
2021
Innovative Idea
Deaf Mentor Program: Deaf Adult to Family Connection
Child Development
To increase visual language skills of young deaf children and their families, and establish meaningful relationships between families and Deaf adult role models across the state of Oklahoma.
Caregivers, Guardians, Parents, Siblings, Family Members in the Home
2022