CDC's Developmental Milestones App

CDC’s Developmental Milestones are a set of key skills in playing, learning, speaking, acting, and moving that most children can do by a certain age, covering birth to 5 years.  The guidelines were significantly updated in February 2022 for the first time since 2004, shifting the benchmark from the average age (50%) to the age by which 75% of children are expected to achieve a milestone to encourage earlier identification of delays.

The updated checklists include new milestones for 15-month and 30-month ages and adjust several existing benchmarks, such as moving the expectation for walking alone from 12 months to 15 months and the vocabulary of 50 words from 24 months to 30 months.  These milestones are intended as communication tools for parents and providers, not as diagnostic or screening tools; if a child is missing a milestone, it should prompt a conversation with a healthcare provider for formal screening.

Key resources for tracking development include the free CDC Milestone Tracker app (iOS and Android), which provides illustrated checklists and videos, and the Milestones in Action photo and video library.  Parents can also access printed or digital checklists in multiple languages through the Learn the Signs.  Act Early. program website.

CDC's Developmental Milestones | Learn the Signs. Act Early. | CDC

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Program Overview:

Minnesota Tribal Resources for Early Childhood Care (MNTRECC)

provides services throughout the state of Minnesota in cooperation with Child Care Aware of MN and Tribal Child Care Programs of the 11 federally recognized tribes throughout Minnesota.

MNTRECC is managed through the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Early Childhood Development Division.

Funding is provided through a grant with the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

Program Goal: Healthy, Thriving American Indian Children and Families

Program Mission: To provide statewide leadership by creating partnerships, resources and supports that serve to connect and strengthen early care and education for American Indian children and their families within the State of Minnesota.

Program Overview:

• Offers training in Native American Early Childhood Curriculum
  
  Native American Parenting ProgramOjibwe & Dakota Language Curriculum

Provides opportunity for tribal early childhood programs to purchase Ojibwe & Dakota Language Kits

Assists providers in becoming rated in the Parent Aware Quality Rating System

Provides technical assistance for the Professional Development needs of early childhood professionals

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MNTRECC

Minnesota Tribal Resources for Early Childhood Care

190 Sailstar Drive

Cass Lake, MN 56633

Phone: (218) 335-8381

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https://www.llboearlychildhood.com/1-home/programs/mn-trecc/

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T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Minnesota is a scholarship program that helps early childhood and school-age educators increase their levels of education, compensation, and commitment to the field by earning college credits and degrees.

The Department of Human Services (DHS) Licensing Division has a critical role in monitoring and supporting health and safety in approximately 10,600 licensed child care programs in Minnesota. Licensure provides the necessary oversight mechanisms to ensure child care is provided in a healthy and safe environment, provided by qualified people, and can meet the developmental needs of all children in care.

Visit: https://mn.gov/dhs/

Sourcewell partners with Becker, Cass, Crow Wing, Douglas, Hubbard, Morrison, Stevens, Todd, and Wadena counties to offer family child care licensing services.

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We offer tools and resources to help parents find licensed home daycare, providers access official documentation for maintaining licensing requirements, and counties an alternative solution for dedicated licensure staffing and support.

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Visit: https://mn.sourcewell.org/licensing/family-child-care

Wayfinder is a go to one-one resource for family child care or center licensing. The network is staffed by local navigators at regional Child Care Aware of Minnesota agencies and Minnesota Tribal Resources for Early Childhood Care (MNTRECC). Navigators help people in their communities create, sustain, and expand licensed family child care and center-based programs by offering encouragement, support, and connection to the many resources available for child care programs.

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Visit: https://www.childcarewayfinder.org/

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Brief: https://www.childcareawaremn.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Wayfinder-brief-2023-FINAL-1.pdf

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