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Resource Update
JUNE 2007
In This
Edition:
Please note: Some of the links say
"click here" because the length of the link interferes with our newsletters format. If you need the full link, please contact Kristen Rogers at:
kristen@wcpcan.wa.gov.
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 What's New at Children's Trust
New Name, New Address, Same Focus on
Children and Families WCPCAN has had
a busy few months! During the legislative session, Senate Bill 5830 passed which gives WCPCAN direction on funding evidence-based home visiting
programs and changes the name of the agency to “Children’s Trust of Washington”. In addition, we moved offices! We are still in
Pioneer Square, but in a new building. Our new address is: 605 1st Ave, Suite 412, Seattle, WA 98104. Our email addresses, website, phone
numbers and most importantly, our focus on supporting children and families all stay the same. If you need directions to our new offices, contact
Sophy Chan at: sophy@wcpcan.wa.gov. If you
have questions related to the name change or the legislation as it impacts the agency, contact Kristen Rogers at: kristen@wcpcan.wa.gov.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Evidence Based Home Visiting RFP Process Now Open!
WCPCAN/Children's Trust is pleased to announce that funding will be available beginning August 1, 2007 for
implementation of evidence based and promising home visitation programs throughout Washington. This is a SEPARATE pot of money from our traditional
three-year grant process. The dollar amounts available are larger, and the funding period will be longer, provided that performance outcomes are met.
The deadline for applications is July 13, 2007. For more information about what programs qualify as “evidence based or
promising” and how to apply, go to: http://www.wcpcan.wa.gov/temp_ebp_grant_process.asp.
New Job Opening at Children’s Trust!
Children’s Trust of Washington (formerly WCPCAN) is recruiting to fill the Programs & Evaluation Manager Position, a newly
created position and a great full time opportunity. If you are energetic, customer oriented, and enjoy working in a team environment where you can
make a difference in the community, please contact http://www.careers.wa.gov/ and reference posting 4232. To see the full job description or
find out how to apply, go to: http://www.wcpcan.wa.gov/.
NEW! PR/Communications Networking
Group
First Monday of each month, Seattle
Area
We are thinking about forming a new monthly networking meeting
for PR / Marketing / Communications professionals in the Seattle area. If you are interested in sharing your expertise and learning from other
professionals, please feel free to contact Chris Jamieson, Children’s Trust (chris@wcpcan.wa.gov) or Melissa
Jennings, Foundation for Early Learning (melissa@earlylearning.org). The group will meet on the first Monday of every month for
coffee, conversation and brainstorming, so please feel free to join us!
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 Events
Teleconference Training
Series
June – July,
TELECONFERENCES
The National Abandoned Infants
Assistance Resource Center at Berkeley announces its 2007 Teleconference Trainings Series. The Center is funded by the Children’s Bureau.
Upcoming conferences include: Taming the Ghosts in the Nursery June 26th, 2007 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific; and Supporting Families
in Recovery through Infant Mental Health Interventions July 17th, 2007 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific. These calls are $25 per session.
For more information or to register, go to: http://aia.berkeley.edu/training/teleconference/.
Partnering with Parents
Online training
June 11th –
November 30th, ONLINE
Partnering with Parents Online will
begin June 11th and go through November 30th. This is a great way to gain in-depth understanding of the field of parenting
education; strengthen your knowledge and skills critical to planning, implementing and evaluating parenting education, and interact with parenting
professionals across the country. Learners participate in 11 modules, each covered over a two-week period. Extension Specialists from Iowa State
University Extension, as well as other universities and organizations, serve as the facilitators. Each module contains activities and other resources
you can download and use in your work with parents. Topics include culture and parenting, parenting with special challenges, examining parenting
curricula, measuring program outcomes, feeding children, relationship of financial stability and parenting, understanding parent and child
development, guiding children, and much, much more! This ONLINE training/course includes chat rooms, discussion boards, videostreams, eJournals,
small group and individual assignments, and readings. Chat sessions are held once every two weeks (one chat per module). CEUs, social worker hours,
course credit, as well as a Parenting Education Certificate of Completion from ISUE are available. To register, go to: www.extension.iastate.edu/pwp and click on “Online Registration”. The
registration deadline has been EXTENDED to June 8th!
Becoming Outcomes-Driven:
Strategies for Using Outcomes Data to Improve Performance
June 14th, 9 am
– 4 pm, South Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington
This one-day workshop builds on
strategies highlighted in the recent Working Ventures report, “Good Stories Aren’t Enough: Becoming Outcomes-Driven in Workforce
Development”. Using interactive exercises and examples gleaned from leading practitioners, workshop attendees will learn practical tools for
increasing staff buy-in to working with data, including: identifying key organization-wide performance indicators; targeting “interim
milestones” for teams or individuals; and weaving the use of data into your organizational culture. For more information or to register, go
to: http://www.workingventures.org/.
Why Business Continuity
Planning is an Essential Tool for Nonprofits and Fundraisers
June 19th, 10 am
– 11:30 am, Audio Conference, Seattle OR Bellevue, Washington
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
facilitates the design of strategies needed to resume essential operations immediately following a business interruption event. Having an effective
plan allows your nonprofit to retain competitive positioning and remain a viable entity, ready to serve the needs of clients, funders and public
sector partners. Maintain the confidence and trust of staff, clients, and other stakeholders. In the event of a natural disaster that affects the
broader community, such as earthquake or fire, BCP helps the nonprofit to play an effective role in providing goods and services to disaster relief
providers and provide support to staff that may be experiencing the impact of the disaster. At this event you will learn: how to help your nonprofit
develop a business continuity plan; why every nonprofit should have an effective emergency fundraising plan; and the components of an emergency
fundraising plan and a crisis communication plan. Participation in a live session or use of an audio recording of the program qualifies for 1.5
points toward CFRE education requirements. The cost is $20 for members, and $25 non-members. To register for the Seattle Audio Conference online, go
to: https://www.afpwashington.org/event_description.php?eventnum=60. To register for the Bellevue Audio Conference online, go to: https://www.afpwashington.org/event_description.php?eventnum=80. For more information, go to: http://www.afpwashington.org/.
International Society for Child Indicators
Conference
June 26th – 28th,
Chicago, Illinois
The International Society for Child Indicators will
hold its inaugural conference which will explore how child indicators can be used to enhance the development and welfare of children and provide
opportunities for participants to exchange ideas. More than 20 countries are represented among its nearly 100 presenters. Early registration is
recommended, as there will be no onsite registration. For more information or to register, go to: www.childindicators.org/ISCI%20Conference%20Flyer.pdf.
Stakeholder Input Requested –
Prevention Day
July 13th, 2007
The Mental Health Transformation Project developed
the Prevention Advisory Group (PAG) in order to explore the opportunities and challenges of promoting mental health, intervening early and preventing
the devastating impacts of mental illness. The PAG is developing a framework for a public health approach to prevention of mental health problems in
children, youth and adults, including prevention of secondary problems for people living with mental illness. The State Board of Health is developing
a paper describing this framework. The PAG is inviting stakeholders to participate in Prevention Day on July 13, 2007 to provide input for the SBOH
report. A follow up meeting is planned for fall 2007. Dissemination of the paper is scheduled for early 2008. A spring 2008 summit is planned to
engage policymakers in the framework, paper, recommendations and priorities for more coordinated, statewide approach to prevention of mental health
challenges. In developing the framework, the PAG and SBOH are engaging stakeholders with interest in five population groups: early childhood (birth
to kindergarten entry); school age (kindergarten – 12th grade); youth transitioning to adulthood (high school – 24 years
old); children, youth or adults entering psychiatric residential placement for the first time; and older adults (65 years and older). If you are
interested in more information on how to participate in Prevention Day, please contact David Brenna at: BRDC300@dshs.wa.gov.
NCAST-AVENUW Summer Institute 2007 Focuses
on Infant Mental Health
July 20th – 21st,
Seattle, Washington
This is a conference for diverse practitioners to
consider dyadic approaches in helping parents or young children who have experienced trauma. Internationally renowned speakers include: Pat
Crittenden, PhD from the Family Relations Institute and Charles H. Zeanah, MD from Tulane University Health Sciences Center. There are three reasons
you must not miss this training opportunity! You will learn how to implement new effective approaches to improve parent-child relationships; you will
learn who to refer for psychotherapy and how that will change behaviors; and you will learn a new set of attachment organizations and how they are
relevant to decision-making about young children and their families. NCAST-AVENUW has nearly 30 years of experience providing effective,
multi-disciplinary, well-respected training to professionals working with families with young children. Space is limited! Registration will be
available online only. To ensure your attendance, click here.
Effective Interventions for
Children & Youth with Challenging Behaviors
August 6th –
10th, Shoreline, Washington
The Office of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction and The Washington Re-Education Association presents this conference: Effective Interventions for Children & Youth with
Challenging Behaviors. This training provides frontline workers in schools and mental health agencies with effective strategies for working with
children & youth presenting challenging behaviors. Participants learn to implement strategies in a variety of clinical and school settings. Teams are
encouraged to attend. The cost is $50 per person. For more information, go to: http://warea.org/Re-ED2007.pdf.
SAVE THE DATE:
Children’s Alliance Advocacy Camp
October 15th –
17th, North Bend, Washington
Want to take your advocacy for
children to the next level? Join together and learn how to power up and speak out at the Children’s Alliance 10th Advocacy Camp!
Advocacy Camp is a three-day, interactive training that will equip you with the skills to be an effective child advocate and local leader. Tuition
for Camp is $350 per person ($200 for Children’s Alliance members) but scholarships are available. Applications are accepted NOW until
September 20th. For more information about Advocacy Camp including applications and scholarship forms, go to: www.childrensalliance.org/whatwedo/advocacy-camp.cfm. If
you are a Current WCPCAN Funded Program and would like a scholarship, limited opportunities are available on a first-come, first-served
basis. If you are interested in receiving a scholarship, contact Kristen Rogers at: kristen@wcpcan.wa.gov.
SAVE THE DATE: American Humane 2007
Conference on Differential Response in Child Welfare
November 14th –
16th, Long Beach, California
This conference aims to build knowledge,
disseminate ongoing practices, and provide a platform for cross-fertilization and exchange across states, counties, and provinces on a range of
topics related to implementing differential response in child welfare. For more information or to register, go to: http://www.americanhumane.org/.
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 Policy & Advocacy Information
How to Plan a
Site Visit: Inviting Policymakers to See Your Work with Infants, Toddlers & Their Families
Some say that a
picture is worth a thousand words, but showing someone your work firsthand can be worth many more. One of the most effective ways to be a voice for
babies is to invite policymakers to experience your work with infants and toddlers for themselves. A site visit gives policymakers the opportunity to
connect the decisions they make to the faces of infants, toddlers, and families in their community, and is a great strategy that can create a lasting
impression. Use this advocacy tool to plan and implement a site visit with your local, state and federal policymakers. To view this policy tool from
Zero to Three, go to: www.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/SiteVisit.pdf?docID=3501.
New Report on
State Early Childhood Policies
The report “State
Early Childhood Policies: Improving the Odds” provides unique, detailed information about the policy choices that states make to promote the
healthy development and school readiness of young children. The report and accompanying state profiles show that most low-income children are not
getting the supports they need to build a solid foundation for future growth and achievement. To read the report, go to: http://nccp.org/publications/pub_725.html. To view the state-by-state early childhood profiles, go to: http://nccp.org/projects/improvingtheodds_stateprofiles.html.
Federal
Legislative Update
On Tuesday, May 22,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi convened the National Summit on America's Children chaired by Representatives George Miller (D-CA), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT),
and Chaka Fattah (D-PA). The Summit brought together many national experts to inform Members of Congress about recent scientific findings in the
areas of the science of early childhood development, early learning, health and mental health, and income and family support systems. For access to
the web cast of the Summit and the resulting legislative priorities on which the Democratic Party will focus in the 110th Congress, go to:
http://www.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_may07.
New Money for
Home Visiting in Washington State
The legislative
session that just ended in Washington State was an incredible one for children and families. A lot of great work was accomplished in the areas of
health care, family leave, and early learning. In addition, $3.5 million was appropriated to WCPCAN/Children’s Trust to expand evidence based
and promising home visiting services in Washington. Thanks to all of the advocates who spoke up for home visiting and other essential services for
children and families. For more information on the legislation around home visiting, go to: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5830&year=2007. To see what
WCPCAN/Children’s Trust is doing with these new dollars, go to: http://www.wcpcan.wa.gov/temp_ebp_grant_process.asp.
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 Marriage & Disabilities Research
Child Trends Research Brief on Births to Co-Habiting Couples
A new research brief published by Child Trends,
“The Relationship Context of Births Outside of Marriage: The Rise of Cohabitation”, takes a closer look at trends in childbearing
outside of marriage in general, and trends within cohabiting relationships in particular. To read the full brief, go to: www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends-2007_05_14_RB_OutsideBirths.pdf.
Need for and Use of Family Leave among
Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs
Parents of children with special health care needs
are especially vulnerable to work–family conflicts that family leave benefits might help resolve. We examined leave-taking among
full-time–employed parents of children with special health care needs. Parents of children with special health care needs are especially
vulnerable to work–family conflicts that family leave benefits might help resolve. We examined leave-taking among full-time–employed
parents of children with special health care needs. The researchers found that 48% of full-time employed parents qualified for federal Family and
Medical Leave Act benefits; 30% reported employer-provided leave benefits (not including sick leave/vacation). In the previous year, their children
averaged 20 missed school/child care days, 12 doctor/emergency department visits, and 1.7 hospitalizations. The authors’ conclusions from
these findings are that full-time employed parents of children with special health care needs experience severe work–family conflicts.
Although most have leave benefits, many report unmet need for leave. Access to Family and Medical Leave Act benefits and employer-provided leave may
greatly affect leave-taking. To read more of this research, click here.
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 Sustainability & Resources
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation
The mission of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation is to give back to and to strengthen
the thousands of communities where their employees and customers work and live through charitable support. They endorse and underwrite a variety of
initiatives and causes throughout the markets where Enterprise operates in support of four key focus areas: They assist many local causes by joining
their employees and providing a 50 percent match of their contributions to United Way campaigns throughout these communities; they believe it is
important to provide financial resources to worthwhile nonprofit initiatives that are actively supported by their employees, their spouses, and loyal
Enterprise customers; they strive to provide more sizable special grants to nonprofit groups or causes of significant strategic or social importance
to Enterprise and its employees; and they support relief projects or causes the company deems important as they arise, such as natural disasters that
affect their customers and employees. The average grant amount is $2,500 to $5,000. September 7, 2007 is the application deadline. For
more information or to apply, go to: http://aboutus.enterprise.com/what_we_believe/our_foundation.html.
Newsletters - Establishing the
Basics to Get Started
If you're not already producing a
newsletter, you're missing out on a tremendous marketing opportunity. If you're not producing an online version, you're missing out on a tremendously
inexpensive marketing opportunity. In her latest contribution to the newsletter industry, “How to Publish Your Newsletter: A Complete
Guide to Print and Electronic Newsletter Publishing”, author and newsletter consultant Carol Luers Eyman lays the groundwork for getting
started. To read the advice of the author, go to: http://ga0.org/nptimes/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=9304943#3.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Communities
Empowering Youth Grant
The Office of Community Services (OCS) is
now accepting applications for funding form the Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth (CEY) program. The CEY program seeks to build
the organizational capacity, sustainability, and effectiveness of experienced organizations working through community collaborations to reduce gang
involvement, youth violence, and child abuse and neglect. OCS anticipates making 30 awards of up to $250,000 each, per year. CEY projects last 36
months with three 12 month budget periods included. Applications are due July 10th. For more information and to apply, go
to: www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/HHS-2007-ACF-OCS-IC-0141.html.
Cartridges 4 Kids Fundraising
Opportunity
Cartridges 4 Kids™ is a recognized
leader in designing award-winning and unique environmentally smart fundraising programs. In 2000, they introduced the Cartridges 4 Kids Printer
Cartridge and Cell-Phone Fundraising Program™. This award-winning fundraising program encourages the community to recycle their empty
printer cartridges and used cell-phones through the Cartridges 4 Kids Program™. This in turn helps to generate much needed funds for the
benefit of Schools and Non-profit Organizations and at the same time, reduces the amount of recyclable material that enters our landfills.
Participation in the C4K Program is free, and there is absolutely no selling involved. The Cartridges 4 Kids Program pays top dollar - up to
$10.00 for empty printer cartridges and up to $25.00 for cell phones. By participating in the program, your organization can expect to earn up to
$1,500.00 in its first year alone! Ongoing deadline. For more information, go to: http://www.cartridges4kids.ca/.
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 Home Visiting & Parent
Education Tools
Parenting with a Mental Illness: Programs and
Resources Guide
This is a new resource from The UPENN Collaborative on
Community Integration. Parents with a psychiatric disability experience the same challenges that all parents face, but are confronted with additional
barriers such as discrimination and stigma, problems related to their symptoms, lack of parenting skills, or lack of environmental and social
supports. Further, these parents are at a greater risk of losing their children. There is clearly a need for programs specifically tailored to the
unique needs of parents diagnosed with mental illnesses. Unfortunately, most programs for parents are not well known because they have been developed
on a small, local scale with limited funding. This guide was developed by the UPenn Collaborative as a comprehensive resource to help parents,
providers, and advocates find information about possible programs in their area; it will be continually updated as more programs are identified. The
Collaborative also hopes it will be a useful source of information for administrators and providers who are beginning their own initiatives to
support these parents. For more information and to view the guide, go to: http://www.upennrrtc.org/var/tool/file/128-PARENTResourcesGUIDE(5.18.07).pdf.
Supporting Healthy Relationships
between Young Children and Their Parents
One theory about child development –
attachment theory – is particularly useful for understanding early child-parent relationships and how to support them. According to attachment
theory, early child-parent relationships lay the foundation for children’s later social, emotional, and school functioning. Attachment theory
also point to specific strategies for supporting relationships between young children and their families. To read the full report from the Center for
Child & Family Policy at Duke University, click
here.
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 Birth to Three & Early Learning News
Assessing Initiatives for Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care
Child care provided by family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) caregivers – home-based child
care that is legally exempt from regulation – is of growing interest to parents and policymakers for several reasons. Chief among them is that
it is the most common type of child care for children under age 5 whose parents work. Growing awareness that so many children are in these unregulated
settings and concerns about school readiness have generated increasing interest in efforts to support these caregivers. More than a quarter of the
states now fund initiatives specifically aimed at family, friend, and neighbor child care. Private foundations and federal agencies such as Early
Head Start have become engaged as well, providing funding for programs in communities across the country. What kinds of services do these initiatives
offer? How many caregivers participate? Do these efforts have any impact on the caregivers and the children for whom they provide child care? Research
can answer these kinds of questions, but information about programs for family, friend, and neighbor caregivers is limited. There are few published
reports about these programs, and they have focused primarily on their implementation rather than their effectiveness. This paper presents an
overview of current efforts to document or evaluate initiatives for family, friend, and neighbor child care. To read this paper, go to:
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_718.html.
Educating Parents about Shaken Baby
Syndrome
Shaken babies are a small but significant
portion of the estimated 900,000 victims of child abuse and neglect every year. Of the estimated 1,500 children killed annually by abuse, one in four
is a victim of shaken baby syndrome (SBS). For every casualty of SBS, three other babies are shaken severely enough to require medical treatment and
will have lifelong complications including seizures, blindness and paralysis. No one knows how many thousands of other less severe cases of shaking
are never brought to a physician’s attention and go undiagnosed. Despite the devastating outcomes of child abuse, there are interventions that
can significantly reduce the incidence of SBS. Specifically, a hospital-based parent education program spearheaded by Mark Dias, M.D., has been
replicated in hospitals nationwide and inspired a growing number of state legislative efforts. To read the full article from
“Children’s Hospital Today”, click
here.
Child Care as Economic Development
Database Resource
Child care and early learning efforts pay
off for kids and for local and state economies – not only do they support children’s development, but quality child care settings
facilitate employment, improve productivity, enable business’ and states’ ability to attract and retain good workers, and have an
impact on the economy in their own right. This site offers a database of economic demographic and policy data for all 50 states and links to state
and local studies to help researchers and advocates make the case that quality child care is an economic development tool. The new Brookings Working
Paper, “The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth,” also examines this issue. For more information, go to: http://www.connectforkids.org/node/3917 or go to: http://government.cce.cornell.edu/doc/viewpage_e.asp?ID=Child_Care.
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 Feature Topic: Cultural Connections
New Spanish Publication Gives Evidence-Based
Parenting Guidelines
The National Institutes of Health has released
“¿Qué Significa ser Padres?” (What Does It Mean to Be Parents?), a free Spanish-language publication geared toward Hispanics
who are seeking advice on parenting. “¿Qué Significa ser Padres?” – a Spanish-language version of the NICHD's
Adventures in Parenting booklet – offers parenting strategies based on scientific research that can be used for children of any age. The
booklet gives practical suggestions for successful parenting that parents can adapt for their own lives and situations. It also includes real-life
examples of how some parents have incorporated these strategies into their own day-to-day parenting activities. For free copies of
“¿Qué Significa ser Padres?” call 1-800-370-2943 or go to: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/significapadres.
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 General Prevention
Americans
Increasingly Supportive of Social Safety Net, Study Finds
Support for government
programs that help disadvantaged Americans, as well as sympathy for the plight of the poor, has surged since 1994, regaining levels last seen in 1990
— prior to welfare reform — a new survey by the Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts finds. Survey participants were asked to
respond to three core questions regularly asked in Pew surveys since 1987: Should the government guarantee every citizen enough to eat and a place to
sleep? Is it the responsibility of the government to take care of people who can't take care of themselves? And should government help more needy
people even if it means going deeper into debt? The survey found that some of the biggest increases in concern for the needy have come from political
conservatives, Southern whites, and older Americans. In addition, the proportion of Americans who agreed with all three statements rose from 29
percent in 1994 to 41 percent in the most recent survey, while those who consistently disagreed with all three propositions fell by nearly half, from
24 percent to 13 percent. To read the full report on the survey, go to: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10007211/story.
Individual,
Family, and Neighborhood Factors Distinguish Resilient from Non-Resilient Maltreated Children: A Cumulative Stressors Model
Interventions to
promote positive functioning in maltreated children must target multiple levels of the child’s ecology, including characteristics of the child
and the child’s family. Because child characteristics like IQ and temperament are difficult to modify, interventions may have more success in
modifying behaviors that arise as a consequence of maltreatment. Such efforts must help parents and children cope with the challenges of their
broader social context. Interventions should attempt to minimize the number of family and neighborhood stressors children experience so that children
can draw on innate personal resources or on those that are fostered through the intervention process. To receive a copy of this article, contact
Kristen Rogers at Kristen@wcpcan.wa.gov.
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 Annoucements
Early Learning Policy Coordinator Job at Children’s
Alliance
The Children’s Alliance
has an opening for an Early Learning Policy Coordinator. This full time position leads the Children’s Alliance’s early childhood
education policy work with an overall goal of increasing the number of young children who are prepared for success in school and in life. The
position combines public policy analysis and advocacy with coordinating and staffing a coalition of early learning advocates in Washington. The
position is based in our Seattle office. Ability to travel and work a flexible schedule is required. Health, dental, and retirement benefits
included. The salary is $40,000 - $42,000/year. People of color and women are encouraged to apply. For more information or to apply, go to: http://childrensalliance.org/joinus/jobopenings.cfm.
Need Volunteers for a One
Day Project?
United Way of King County Day of Caring 2007 is
Friday, September 21st! Day of Caring is the largest mobilization of volunteers in King County and they want your organization to
participate! On Day of Caring, teams of volunteers will volunteer at organizations throughout King County. You can submit a project to the United Way
to have volunteers sent to your agency. Projects should start around 9 am and be approximately 6 hours (lunch time included) in duration. Please
indicate if you will be providing lunch in the project description. For more information or to register a project, go to: http://volunteer.united-e-way.org/uwkc/agency/home/news/doc2007.
Program Director Job at Foundation for Early
Learning
The Foundation for Early Learning is a statewide
public foundation. It funds community collaborations working to bring comprehensive and coordinated early learning programs and services to children
birth through age five. The Foundation for Early Learning is working to make every child in Washington State ready to enter school prepared to be
successful in school and in life. The Program Director is responsible for all aspects of the programmatic activities for the Foundation. The
responsibilities include grants management, community organizing, identifying communities that are potential grantees, building relationships with
community leaders, funders and organizations, monitoring and evaluating grantees’ progress, staying current with the trends in early learning,
and building collaborative relationships with governmental, corporate and community partners. The Director staffs the Program Committee of the Board
and recommends granting opportunities to the Executive Director and Program Committee members. This job pays $70,000-$80,000 DOE. For more
information or to apply, go to: http://www.earlylearning.org/.
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