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Exciting changes are on the horizon for early learning professionals as new recommendations aim to streamline qualifications and recognize valuable experience!

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Work group advances staff‑qualification recommendations: experience pathway, verification improvements and PACE alignment
A DCYF work group outlined draft recommendations implementing HB 1648: an experience‑based pathway (5 cumulative years by Aug. 1, 2030), clearer education verification, expanded navigation support, and steps to strengthen the community‑based PACE pathway and continuing education recognition.
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August 14, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Advocates are calling on lawmakers to prioritize community-based mental health services over expanded institutional facilities, emphasizing the urgent need for lived experience in policymaking.

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Advocates tell State House committee to center lived experience and fund community mental-health supports, not expanded inpatient beds
Two witnesses at Disability Advocacy Day urged the State House Committee on Health Care to prioritize voluntary, peer-led community supports and oppose expanding inpatient or forensic facilities; they named bills they favor (peer-respite and youth peer programs) and urged stronger lived-experience representation in policymaking.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM