Preschool Development Grant: Advancing a Unified Early Care and Education System for Maine Families

Preschool Development Grant: Advancing a Unified Early Care and Education System for Maine Families is sponsored by Maine Department of Education. Aims to develop a unified, high-quality early care and education system in Maine, enhancing services for children and families.

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In Maine, the Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and Governor's Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future have partnered on developing and implementing PDG awards.

2025 Grant 2022 Grant 2019 Grant 2025 Preschool Development Grant: Advancing a Unified Early Care and Education System for Maine Families The 2025 Preschool Development Grant was awarded to the Maine Department of Education (DOE) in partnership with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Governor's Office of Policy, Innovation, and the Future (GOPIF).

This comprehensive, one-year initiative is designed to advance a unified, high-quality early care and education (ECE) system that ensures seamless access for families and sustainable support for providers. Developing a shared statewide vision for early care and education. Building a coherent governance and service delivery system.

Maximizing family access across mixed-delivery settings. 2022 Preschool Development Grant B-5 for ME: Increasing Accessibility to High Quality Programming Led by a Skilled and Vital Workforce The 2022 Preschool Development Grant was awarded to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in collaboration with the Maine Department of Education (DOE) and the Governor's Office of Policy, Innovation, and the Future (GOPIF).

This grant supported an ambitious plan to build needed infrastructure and capacity to create a more coordinated, efficient, and high-quality mixed delivery system for children ages birth to five and their families, targeting key needs surfaced in the initial PDG needs assessment. This plan builds upon cross-agency work to ensure that all children enter Kindergarten prepared to succeed.

Intended outcomes for this 3-year grant included the following: Outcome 1: A diverse group of interested parties is engaged and advising the development of policy and programming for Maine's early care and education system. Outcome 2: More infants and toddlers are screened for concerns about development and receive early intervention services. Outcome 3: More families and young children are accessing needed services.

Outcome 4: Parents inform policy decisions for and improvements to Maine's ECE system. Outcome 5: Maine has a robust, well-trained diverse ECE workforce supported through increased compensation and targeted professional development opportunities. Outcome 6: More vulnerable children are enrolled in quality ECE settings.

Outcome 7: Transitions for children between early childhood settings and early elementary grades are streamlined, strengthened, and supported. Outcome 8: Maine has an integrated early childhood data system which connects data across agencies and informs better policy and programmatic decisions.

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This initial PDG B-5, which expired in 2020, was a planning grant to study and improve the early child care and education mixed delivery system. This grant supported the Children's Cabinet goal that all Maine children will enter kindergarten prepared to succeed. The PDG B-5 had five major goals: Determine the current state of early care and education quality and access for Maine families by conducting a comprehensive needs assessment.

Maximize parental knowledge and choice. Share practices that are evidence-based. Improve overall quality of programming for children birth–age five.

The needs assessment, B-5 for ME: Quality, Accessibility, and Affordability of Services for Maine's Children & Families , provided the state with valuable information gathered from interested parties across the state. 2019 PDG Grant Application Director of Early Learning Email: Leeann. Larsen@maine.

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