Nevada

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Nevada's Child Care and Development Fund Quality Infant/Toddler Targeted Fund:

FY: 2008: The Federal CCDF Quality Infant and Toddler Targeted Funds allocation is $711, 834.

FY: 2006: The Federal CCDF Infant and Toddler Targeted Funds allocation was $662,971.

According to the 2007-2009 CCDF State Plans, the funds are used in the following ways to enhance the Nevada infant and toddler child care system (additional funds may be used to support these activities):

• Continued support to provide speech consultation, screenings, assessments, training, and transition services to parents, child care centers, Early Head Start centers, and others of developmentally delayed infants and toddlers.
• Continued support to provide Child Find Presentations to child care centers, Early Head Start Centers and others to include underserved areas or populations in rural Nevada to inform them about services provided by Nevada Early Intervention Services.
• Continued support to continue to train child care providers to include children with special needs.
• Continued support to develop site-specific quality improvement plans for ten (10) sites statewide and assist sites in obtaining needed materials and equipment to improve the quality of their child care programs.
• Continued support to provide a resource library for child care providers in southern Nevada that includes developmental books, activity books, toys, and children's books specific to the care and education of infants and toddlers.
• Continued support to pilot the T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Nevada program to help providers obtain associate degrees in early childhood with an infant/toddler specialization in the Reno area only in conjunction with Truckee Meadows Community College (eventually this program will be offered on a statewide basis).
• Continued support to develop an early learning center with infant and toddler care available in an isolated community 100 miles from any other population area in Northern Nevada. This was accomplished through a public-private partnership.
• Continued support to provide Early Head Start wrap-around services.
• Continued support to provide mini-grants for the improvement of infant/toddler environments and expansion of infant/toddler slots in licensed child care settings.

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