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Our Clearinghouse offers comprehensive support for early childhood care and education, covering a wide range of settings such as centers, homes, family and friend arrangements, and programs like Head Start and Pre-K.
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Rooted Together: A Cultural Guide for Families of Indigenous Children
Healthy Environment and Relationships
Rooted Together: A Cultural Guide for Families of Indigenous Children is a toolkit designed to help non-Native parents and caregivers raise Indigenous children in a culturally respectful and supportive environment.
Caregivers, Children, Guardians, Parents
2025

Promising Practice
Community Garden
Healthy Environment and Relationships
This project aims to promote healthy environments through the development and maintenance of a community garden that serves as a hub for physical activity, access to fresh produce, and environmental education.
Children, Parents, Teachers
2025

Best Practice
Community Based Doula Expansion
Healthy Environment and Relationships
The Oklahoma Birth Equity Initiative (OKBEI) works to equip families to have healthy births with dignity through a comprehensive, community-centered program that addresses the stark disparities in birth outcomes among marginalized populations in Oklahoma.
Children, Medical Providers, Parents
2025

Innovative Idea
OKAEYC – Respectful Caregiving
Child Development
This submission seeks funding for a series of workshops titled "Respectful Caregiving.” In these workshops, our instructors will introduce caregivers to the principles of respectful caregiving, an essential philosophy and approach that fosters secure and respectful relationships between caregivers and children.
Children, Guardians, Parents, Teachers
2023

Innovative Idea
Early Childhood Social Emotional Support Coaches
Social Emotional Well Being
The target population will be children in the Early Childhood Center in Woodward Oklahoma who have been identified/referred from a teacher and observed/assessed by the Mental Health Consultant as needing extra help with social emotional skills.
Administrators, Caregivers, Children, Parents, Teachers, Guardians
2023

Promising Practice
Training Oklahoma Childcare Providers to Support Children with Autism (TOCA)
Social Emotional Well Being
Inequities in childcare for children with autism are a significant concern. These inequities can manifest in various ways, including limited access to inclusive childcare options, inadequate training for childcare providers, and financial barriers.
Administrators, Caregivers, Children, Guardians, Owners, Parents, Teachers
2023

Promising Practice
TBRI and Trauma Informed Classrooms
Social Emotional Well Being
Lilyfield proposes to bring the Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Trauma Informed Classrooms to licensed childcare centers that serve foster children ages 0-8 years old throughout the state.
Administrators, Caregivers, Children, Guardians, Parents, Teachers, Owners
2023

Innovative Idea
Air Quality and Filtration in Early Childhood Settings
Healthy Environment and Relationships
This project will involve two groups: Teachers and the children enrolled in their ECE classrooms. Although child outcomes are ultimately our interest, the successful use of air filters to improve ECE classroom air quality is dependent on the teachers who run those classrooms.
Children, Teachers
2022

Innovative Idea
Emergency Child Care Waiver: Innovative Referral and Approval Process
Healthy Environment and Relationships
The target population is Oklahoma families with children (ages birth to 8 years old) that have been exposed to a traumatic event.
Caregivers, Children, Guardians, Parents, Systems
2022

Promising Practice
Outdoor Environment and Classroom
Healthy Environment and Relationships
This environment will provide a safe place for families to interact within nature. Families are able to create and build relationships through an interactive outdoor environment.
Teachers, Parents, Family Child Care Providers
2022

Promising Practice
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Services for Northwest Oklahoma
Child Development
Western Plains Youth and Family Services is writing this letter to propose a solution to a recurring problem in the early childcare centers such as the Early Education Center, Headstarts, Schools and Daycares in Woodward and surrounding counties.
Caregivers, Children, Teachers, Parents, Guardians, Administrators
2022

Promising Practice
Providing Hope and Opportunity in Outdoor Learning Environments at Child Care Centers and Family Child Care Homes
Child Development
This submission is an innovative idea to design new and/or renovate existing playgrounds at eight diverse early education programs across the State of Oklahoma into natural outdoor learning classrooms which will help promote the health and well-being of Oklahoma children and early childhood staff.
Caregivers, Children, Owners, Teachers, Administrators
2022

Best Practice
Early Learning Matters – Curriculum Program for Early Childhood Classrooms
Child Development
Curriculum in an early childhood setting is the content and concepts which children learn as they go about their day. It is vital to a child’s learning experience as it supports and strengthens their learning and development.
Caregivers, Children, Teachers, Owners
2022

Best Practice
Child Care Director Training with the National Administrators Credential (NAC)
Child Development
Director qualifications are a vital part of every early childhood program. A director is responsible for all aspects of the daily activities their center or homes’ program which include the supervision and leadership of staff with the caring and teaching of children.
Administrators, Owners, Teachers
2022
