Toolkit for Integrating Healthy Physical and Mental
Development in Early Learning Guidelines
Acknowledgements

Several individuals and entities contributed expertise and resources to this project. Key contributors in the pilot and nationwide phases are noted below:

Pilot Project
In April 2006, a pilot needs assessment was conducted to determine what assistance states/territories want and need to effectively enhance the health and safety content in their Early Learning Guidelines and related initiatives. The National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education (NRC) would like to acknowledge the Advisory Team to the Pilot Project and the State Survey Pilot Participants for their assistance:

Pilot Project Advisory Team  
Lorraine Brown
Maternal and Child Health Bureau		 Sarah LeMoine
Information Services Manager
National Child Care Information Center
Lori Connors-Tadros, Ph.D.
Early Learning and Literacy Coordinator
National Child Care Information Center		 Karen Pucciarelli, MPA
Coordinator, Rhode Island Early Learning Standards Project
Rhode Island Department of Education
Moniquin Huggins
Director, Program Operations
Child Care Bureau		 Phyllis Stubbs-Wynn, MD, MPH
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
   
Pilot Study States  
Arkansas Illinois Montana North Carolina
Connecticut Indiana New Jersey West Virginia
   
   

Nationwide Project
In conducting the nationwide online review of states’ early learning guidelines, the NRC gratefully acknowledges the commitment and effort of the National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) for creating a rich Web resource http://www.nccic.org/pubs/goodstart/elgwebsites.html that was an essential tool in locating many states’ documents.

NRC Project Director: Marilyn J. Krajicek, Ed.D., R.N., FAAN

NRC Staff: Jean M. Cimino, MPH; Barbara U. Hamilton, M.A.; David Merten, B.S., Geraldine Steinke, PhD; Ginny Torrey, B.A.


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