Support for Immigrant and LEP Early Care and Education Providers

[Harold Schiffman]

Selected State and Local Policies to Support Immigrant and Limited
English Proficient (LEP) Early Care and Education Providers.
>>From Center for Law and Social Policy:

by Danielle Ewen and Hannah Matthews.

As the young child population is growing in diversity, the early
childhood field is facing a shortage of bilingual and bicultural
providers. One way to increase the supply of qualified, bilingual and
culturally competent early care and education providers is to assist
providers from immigrant communities to gain the skills to become
licensed child care providers, as well as to provide supports to
immigrant providers in order to retain them in the early childhood
field and to encourage further professionalization and credentialing.
CLASP has created a checklist of selected policies that support
immigrant providers, particularly those with limited English
proficiency. This tool offers strategies and examples for improving
policies in the areas of language access, training and professional
development. 4 pages. Read more from this post:
http://www.clasp.org/publications/policies_support_lep_providers07.pdf

 http://webclipper.handsnet.org/2008/01/selected-state-1.php

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