September 17, 2025 State Strategies for Sustained Investment in Kids: A Landscape of Dedicated Funding
Video A Catalyst for Change: Karen Pittman Reflects on a Career Dedicated to Positive Youth Development Interview with Karen Pittman about her illustrious career and leadership in the field of positive youth development.
Video How to Prioritize Kids in Your Legislative Session: Lessons from the States Exploration of five different types of bills that state advocates are using to direct more sustained funding to early childhood.
PowerPoint Deck Slides: How States and Communities Are Maximizing American Rescue Plan Funding for Kids in 2022 and Beyond Highlights from our American Rescue Plan database.
Video How Emerging Funding Strategies Can Help Tribal Nations Support Child and Youth Programs Ideas for creative funding sources for Native nations to support programs and services for children and youth.
Video How Cost Models Can Help Tribal Nations Support Early Childhood Programs Why and how cost models can help Native nations achieve their goals for young children.
Video Annemarie Valdez: 2022 Children’s Funding Champion Conversation with our 2022 Children's Funding Champion, Annemarie Valdez of First Steps Kent.
Video State Level Strategic Financing: Bringing It All Together for Babies Step-by-step webinar about how your state can maximize strategic investments for infants and toddlers.
PowerPoint Deck Public Funding for Children and Youth Data and initial findings from 14 state cradle-to-career fiscal maps
Publication Building a Strong Backbone: How American Rescue Plan Funds Can Strengthen the Administrative Operations Needed to Support Kids Key information about the various types of funding available to states and communities from the American Rescue Plan
Publication American Rescue Plan Frequently Asked Questions These FAQs provide answers about using money received from the American Rescue Plan’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund.
Video How States and Communities Are Maximizing American Rescue Plan Funding for Kids in 2022 and Beyond Highlights from our American Rescue Plan database
Publication Investing in Youth Workforce Development in Maryland An American Rescue Plan community profile
Publication Investing in Child Care in Deschutes County, OR An American Rescue Plan community profile
Publication Expanding Access to High-Quality Child Care in Franklin County, OH An American Rescue Plan community profile
Publication Investing in the Early Childhood Workforce in Milwaukee, WI An American Rescue Plan community profile
Publication Investing in Community Care in Anne Arundel County, MD An American Rescue Plan community profile
Publication Investing in Youth Workforce Development in Baltimore City, MD An American Rescue Plan community profile
Publication Understanding Strategic Public Financing What is strategic public financing and how can it help your community?
Publication Investments in Strategic Planning for K-12 Education in Syracuse, NY An American Rescue Plan community profile