CCPI's Hailey Heinz talked about NM's early childhood systems, funding and workforce this morning on the KUNM News call-in show. Thanks for a great discussion, Taylor Velazquez

And, if you missed it and want to listen: kunm.org/show/lets-talk…

New publication from the CCPI team, with lead author Andrew Breidenbach, Deputy Director Hailey Heinz and UNM Health Sciences collaborator Elizabeth Yakes Jimenez!

Our own graduate research assistant Yoselin Cordova is quoted in this Child Trends work on supporting student parents on campuses. childtrends.org/publications/c…

Watch Alax, NM's extraterrestrial early childhood enthusiast, learn about healthy development and the FIT program (plus watch our deputy director be a little bit silly) youtube.com/watch?v=qaXuuu…

#SoonInAJPH "Perspectives of Home-Based Childcare Providers in New Mexico on Barriers and Facilitators to Participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, 2021-2022" Care providers say food programs help, but children need more than the program reimburses.Hailey Heinz

CCPI partnered this week with colleagues at UNM Family Development Program and MediaDesk to present ZERO TO THREE in Minneapolis. The team presented on New Mexico's recent strides in policy and research, family engagement, and communications. We love telling New Mexico's story!

#2023APPAM is a wrap! Thanks to colleagues Stephen Yu EdPolicyWorks and Sarah Jiyoon Kwon The Crown Family School for collaborating with us on a panel on child care access! We are thrilled to be part of APPAM and always come home with notebooks full of our next research questions.

Now online: a special issue on Policies and Strategies to Increase Equitable Access to Family Nutrition All papers are Open Access: bit.ly/477cgV8 RWJF Mathematica Alfredo Morabia

Special issue of AJPH, out today, features perspectives of NM home-based childcare providers and their experiences accessing the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ… Plus, our take on why this is so important: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…

NM's ECE policies were featured at a Joint Economic Committee, w testimony by Speaker Javier Martínez. UNMCCPI was cited by Martin Heinrich, on how child care investments have helped providers & families. Read the whole brief here: ccpi.unm.edu/sites/default/… And watch: jec.senate.gov/public/index.c…

New research ft. child care subsidy experiences of families with complex circumstances (e.g. CPS contact or unstable housing) is featured in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Families gain economic stability from subsidies but often struggle to find care authors.elsevier.com/a/1j8W439HNKlv…

Thanks to Univ. of New Mexico communications for featuring this new research + CCPI's broader work to evaluate progress and outcomes from NM's big moves on child care policy. news.unm.edu/news/unm-resea…

ICYMI: This High Country News piece describes how NM became a leader in early childhood education and especially child care, featuring insights from deputy director Hailey Heinz, and work CCPI partnered on with our colleagues at the Urban Institute

New findings out today in Early Childhood Research Quarterly, featuring the voices of NM families describing their child care preferences, their challenges accessing preferred care, and how those challenges impact their families. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We are so proud of this intergalactic ambassador of care!

The team has new work out today on NM families' perspectives recertifying their child care subsidy benefits. Eligibility workers were key to the process, and recertification was trickier for families with bigger households or gig work. Check it out here: rdcu.be/d3ADn

New work in Children and Youth Services Review. We interviewed families at WIC clinics about child care subsidies. Many families hadn't heard of it or thought they wouldn't be eligible, despite needing care. Read more here (no paywall, for a limited time!) authors.elsevier.com/a/1kPcxhNfL1G3X

New findings: Which department oversees child care subsidies has consequences for how we talk about the program, its mission, and eligibility policy. New paper in Policy Studies Journal. Paywalled outside academia, but DM or email me for a PDF. doi.org/10.1111/psj.70…