1. Bureau of Child Care and Development Research, Planning, and Development

2. The health and creativity of a community is renewed each generation through its children.

8. Infant and Toddler Guidelines Ron Lally and Peter Mangione facilitated the kick off meeting held February 16, 2005.

9. 62 writing team members representing diverse expertise and experiences. Six domains: Physical health development; Emotional development; Social development; Language and communication development; Cognitive development; Motor development.

10. Writing teams met for 5 months with onsite technical assistance from WestEd. Draft guidelines were submitted to WestEd in August. Statewide focus groups and internet comments in November, 2005. Finished document released on December 14, 2005.

11. Creating Policy & Practice that capitalizes on the biological realities of the children we serve by utilizing research to find out what are the right experiences, the right amounts and the right time to achieve results.

12. Infant Toddler Specialists will target their work with programs that feed into elementary schools that are in academic emergency. Infant Toddler Specialists will provide center- based training and the Ready To Learn Coordinators will provide family child care training, utilizing common curriculum modules.

13. I continue to think about how to solve the following:

14. That our culture isn’t lacking in material things, but in human things. That it is people, not programs, that change children. That when relational needs in children are not met, and their social/emotional fabric begins to fray, what are the maladaptive ways that emerge so they can get their needs met?

15. How to utilize existing systems/structures to move forward a quality agenda in light of little public/legislative will to do so. How to keep all of you committed/ energized/productive and innovative when resources are scarce, support is limited and demands are increasing.