Resources for families with special child-care needs
Resources for families with special child-care needs
Resources for families with special child-care needs
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DCYF Launches Effort to Grow Trauma-Informed and Healing Centered Practices
The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) Executive Leadership Team recently launched an agency-wide effort to grow trauma-informed and healing-centered supports throughout the agency.
The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) has released the Comprehensive Early Learning Services Request for Application (RFA) for ECEAP, B-3, and ECLIPSE Expansion for 2023-2024.
Several grant opportunities are currently available through DCYF to support child care providers and the child care workforce:
Families residing in Washington State may be eligible for child care subsidy to help pay for child care. Child care subsidies help pay for child care while the parent, or parents in a two-parent household, participate in an approved activity.
DCYF held two Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) provider design sessions in June, co-facilitated with Imagine Learning. The groups met for four hours to decide how best to provide trauma-informed support to early childhood professionals.
DCYF allocated $4.6 million to 36 of 61 ECEAP and Early ECEAP Contractors for the 2021-22 school year through the Complex Needs Fund. This resulted in an additional 78 contractor sites receiving support through this funding.
The Department of Commerce’s Early Learning Facilities (ELF) Grant Program, first created in 2017 under Substitute House Bill 1777, is designed to assist