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Project Description

The goal of this project is to provide a companion guide to the Minnesota Core Competencies that defines knowledge and skills for adults who care for infants and toddlers. The design/writing team represents diverse community groups as well as a variety of early care and education settings. In addition to the various perspectives on the team, we are also addressing language/cultural gaps by contracting with community facilitators. These facilitators represent their communities and gather feedback about samples of the work.

The Minnesota Department of Human Services has appointed five specific tasks that will culminate in this companion guide:

1. Create a companion guide to the Minnesota Core Competencies that specifically addresses the critical knowledge and skills needed to provide quality infant/toddler care in a format that is easily understandable and user friendly.
2. Address primary caregiving, continuing of care, individualized curriculum, developmental appropriateness, and family partnerships in the context of center care, family child care, and family, friend, and neighbor care.
3. Develop a crosswalk between the 0-3 Indicators of Progress and those core competencies identified as critical for infant/toddler providers with specific examples translating concepts into practice and daily routines.
4. Engage communities of color and refugee and immigrant communities in the development of the companion guide to ensure culturally relevant material.
5. Provide recommendations for methods of dissemination that will address access and outreach needs.

Project Staff

Christopher Watson, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

Vicki Hawley, Project Coordinator

Sara Zettervall, Project Assistant

Funding

This work is funded by a grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services.