SECPTAN: State Early Childhood Policy TA Network
CFPC manages the State Early Childhood Policy Technical Assistance Network (SECPTAN), funded by the Ford, Kauffman, and Packard Foundations. SECPTAN provides direct technical assistance to state decision-makers in the seventeen-state School Readiness Initiative, as well as producing more general publications for the field. SECPTAN publications and other resources and information are available on the SECPTAN website at www.finebynine.org
The following SECPTAN publications can be directly accessed www.finebynine.org:
- Building an Early Childhood Development System for America’s Future (4/14/09)
- Up and Running: A Compendium of Multi-State Early Childhood Initiatives
- Measuring Children’s School Readiness: Options for Developing State Baselines and Benchmarks
- School Readiness Policy and Budgeting: Template for Collecting State Baseline Information
- Child Welfare and School Readiness – Making the Link for Vulnerable Children
- Financing School Readiness Strategies: An Annotated Bibliography
- Seven Things Legislators (and Other Policy Makers) Need to Know about School Readiness
- Health Care and School Readiness: The Health Community’s Role in Supporting Child Development – New Approaches and Model Legislation
- On the Path to School Readiness: Key Questions to Consider Before Establishing Universal Pre-Kindergarten
- Building an Early Learning System: The ABCs of Planning and Governance Structures