Helpful early childhood resources for parents, families and caregivers, ECAC meeting notes, and early childhood research.
Early Childhood Resources
Developmental Milestones Map
Your child is learning new ways to play, speak, and move every day! You can learn about some of the big milestones (important signs that your child is growing) for your child’s age.
This document is available for families, child care providers, early childhood organizations, pediatricians, doulas, birth workers, and etc. to print. The version available here is a low-quality for electronic use only. For a print-ready, high file that can be printed please contact us at ecacbaltimorecity@gmail.com
The coalition meets quarterly in March, June, September, and December. Below you can read the meeting minutes. Minutes are approved during the proceeding coalition meeting and uploaded to the website after approval.
ECAC quarterly meetings are virtual and open to the public. If you are interested in attending the next meeting, email us at ecacbaltimorecity@gmail.com to obtain the meeting link.
The ECACs four Goal Groups, Advocate, Collaborate, Target and Support, submit reports quarterly to the coalition. Read the most recent quarterly reports below.
Advocate
Group Goal: Advocate for the needs of children, families, and early childhood educators
Group Goal: Target areas of the City where school readiness outcomes are the lowest and identify and mobilize partners to provide interventions in those places
Early childhood reports and research for families, service providers, legislators, advocates, funders, and other early childhood stakeholders.
Baltimore City Early Childhood Care & Education Landscape Analysis
The 2024–2025 Baltimore City Early Care and Education Landscape Analysis seeks to answer critical questions about the number, residential location, and conditions of the city’s children from birth to age five; document the network of early care and education programs available to them; assess how these programs match with the needs of the city’s children and families; and identify obstacles and opportunities to better meeting these needs so that more children and families in Baltimore can thrive.
The Baltimore City ECAC worked with consultants Policy Studies Associates and Extraordinary Changes in order to obtain a comprehensive look at the services provided in Baltimore City, the strengths and challenges, parent experiences, lessons from other states and jurisdictions, and recommendations for systemic change. The purpose of this report is to determine how to better align early childhood system components with each other in a way that works best for the community.
Baltimore City Early Childhood Care & Education Landscape Analysis
The Baltimore City Early Childhood Landscape Analysis set out to explore key questions about early childhood care in Baltimore that were developed in collaboration with the Baltimore City Early Childhood Advisory Council (ECAC).
Child Care After COVID: Equity, efficiency, and effectiveness in the financing and delivery of child care in Baltimore and Maryland
Well before the current pandemic, the economics of child care were unmanageable for both families and providers. COVID-19 has only increased this pressure heightening awareness about how critical child care is to enabling families to work, to reopening the economy, and to broader community prosperity. An Abell Foundation report.
This inaugural Maryland’s Prenatal-to-Three (PN-3) Equity Report draws on diverse data sources to characterize the extent to which Maryland has achieved an equitable prenatal-to-three system of care for three broad areas: Healthy Beginnings, Supported Families, and High-Quality Early Care and Learning. A Building Better Beginnings (B3) Maryland initiative report.
