Childhood
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Assessing the Key Processes of Youth-Led Participatory Research: Psychometric Analysis and Application of an Observational Rating Scale
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Youth & Society, 2015, Vol. 47(1) 29–50 © The Author(s) 2012. DOI: 10.1177/0044118X12468011
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Food justice youth development: using Photovoice to study urban school food systems
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Krista Harper, Catherine Sands, Diego Angarita Horowitz, Molly Totman,
Monica Maitín, Jonell Sostre Rosado, Jazmin Colon & Nick Alger (2017) Food justice youth
development: using Photovoice to study urban school food systems, Local Environment, 22:7,
791-808, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2016.1274721
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Child Opportunity Index (COI)
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The Child Opportunity Index (COI) measures and maps the quality of resources and conditions like these that matter for children's healthy development in the neighborhoods where they live.
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State Licensing Scorecard
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This scorecard measures state support of those standards in four areas: healthy infant feeding, nutrition, physical activity, and screen time limits.
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Nutrition Resources for Child Care
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Team Nutrition supports the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) by providing training and technical assistance to child care providers and program operators, nutrition education for children and families, and resources to support a healthier environment.
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Go NAPSACC
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Explore online tools for child care providers or a technical assistance professionals and learn how programs use Go NAPSACC to improve their practices, policies and environments to meet best practices.
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Better Together Learning Collaboratives Implementation Toolkit: Go NAPSACC
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This Toolkit supports the delivery of four distinct Better Together Learning Collaboratives with each one focused on a different topic area: Physical Activity, Child Nutrition, Breastfeeding & Infant Feeding, and Screen Time. While the content of each Learning Collaborative is different, the overall structure is the same.
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REACH
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Community health resources supporting health for all.
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Arizona Early Learning Standards SPANISH
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The Arizona Early Learning Standards have been developed to provide a framework for the planning of quality learning experiences for all children three to five years of age. The standards cover a broad range of skill development and provide a useful instructional foundation for children from diverse backgrounds and with diverse abilities. The standards are intended for use by all those who work with young children in any early care and education setting in urban, rural, and tribal communities.
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Arizona Early Learning Standards ENGLISH
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The Arizona Early Learning Standards have been developed to provide a framework for the planning of quality learning experiences for all children three to five years of age. The standards cover a broad range of skill development and provide a useful instructional foundation for children from diverse backgrounds and with diverse abilities. The standards are intended for use by all those who work with young children in any early care and education setting in urban, rural, and tribal communities.
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Program Guidelines for High Quality Early Care and Education: Birth through Kindergarten
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Recommended practices for programs to use as they strive for excellence in the care and education of young children throughout Arizona. This document is intended to provide guidance by delineating quality and providing a set of indicators that concretely describe what a program will look like when providing high quality early care and education for children birth through age six.
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First Things First: Ages and Stages
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First Things First and other key partners in Arizona’s early childhood system developed this detailed resource to help parents, families and other caregivers understand the appropriate development of children from birth to age 3, and also what they can do to support children’s healthy development and learning. Recognizing that all children progress differently, these guidelines describe expectations about what infants and toddlers should know (understand) and do (competencies and skills) across the full range of development.
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Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding SPANISH
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Step-by-step, throughout their growing-up years, children build on their natural ability and become eating competent. Parents let them learn and grow with eating when they follow the Division of Responsibility in Feeding.
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Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding ENGLISH
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Step-by-step, throughout their growing-up years, children build on their natural ability and become eating competent. Parents let them learn and grow with eating when they follow the Division of Responsibility in Feeding.
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Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Physical Activity ENGLISH
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Parenting with activity demands a division of responsibility. Parents provide structure, safety and opportunities. Children determine how much and whether to move and the manner of moving.
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Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Physical Activity SPANISH
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Parenting with activity demands a division of responsibility. Parents provide structure, safety and opportunities. Children determine how much and whether to move and the manner of moving.
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A Child Care Guide for Arizona Providers and Parents & Tri-Agency Child Care Matrix
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Brief brochure overview of regulated childcare guidelines from the three Arizona agencies within the tri-agency matrix: Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Arizona Department of Economic Security.
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Painted Playgrounds Toolkit Training
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A toolkit providing activities for painted stencils that promote children’s physical activity and fundamental motor skill development.
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Painted Playgrounds Toolkit
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A toolkit providing activities for painted stencils that promote children’s physical activity and fundamental motor skill development.
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Arizona Infant/Toddler Developmental Guidelines SPANISH
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These guidelines describe expectations about what infants and toddlers should know (understand) and do (competencies and skills) across multiple domains of development during specific age ranges, as well as what adults can do to support children’s optimal learning and development.
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Key Contacts for Childhood
Kathryn Faull
School System Specialist
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