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Category: Early Care and Education
Home Visiting Programs are Vital for New Jersey Families
Posted 12/13/2022 By Barbara May RN, MPH Director of Policy and Program Development, Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative and Co-Chair of the Advocates for Children of New Jersey Home Visiting Workgroup First Lady Tammy Murphy’s Nurture New Jersey initiative sets forth a bold plan to assure all babies begin life healthy, safe and ready to thrive. […]
Urge Congress to Tackle New Jersey’s Child Care Crisis!
New Jersey’s child care system is still in crisis. A federal investment in child care funding is necessary to keep the system from crumbling further. We must reimagine child care – New Jersey’s Congressional leaders must support an increase in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funding to make this happen! Let Congress […]
Let’s get the job done for families that need home visiting services.
The Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program, the primary source of funding for New Jersey’s robust home visiting system, expired on September 30, 2022. While MIECHV has been included in the Continuing Resolution through December, Congress must act now to ensure the program is reauthorized and there is no lapse in funding. […]
Nine Takeaways from Celebrate Babies Week 2022
Last week, in partnership with the New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health (NJ-AIMH) and Montclair State University’s Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health, ACNJ participated in Celebrate Babies Week, a national initiative highlighting the mental health needs of young children. This year, our theme was “Early Relational Health: It’s Everyone’s Business.” Throughout the week, ACNJ and our partners engaged families, professionals and policymakers around the state to call attention to the needs of our youngest children.
