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It's All About Belonging

"When inclusive [practice] is fully embraced, we abandon the idea that children have to become 'normal' in order to contribute to the world. Instead, we search for and nourish the gifts that are inherent in all people. We begin to look beyond typical ways of becoming valued members of the community, and in doing so, begin to realize the achievable goal of providing all children with an authentic sense of belonging." --Norman Kunc (1992) www.normemma.com

Welcome to the newly updated California M.A.P. to Inclusion and Belonging…Making Access Possible website, a project operating under the Center for Child and Family Studies at WestEd and funded by the California Department of Education's Child Development Division with a portion of the federal Child Care Development Fund Quality Improvement Allocation. The MAP Project supports the inclusion of children with disabilities and other special needs ages birth to 21 in child care, after school and community settings.

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California Collaborative on the Social & Emotional Foundations for Early Learning

Changes to Early Start and the Prevention Resource and Referral Services

Find out why these are important to early care and education providers and other referral sources.

UPDATED California Early Start Training

Updated training files to reflect changes in States laws as of July 2011

Click here to download the updated files.

NEW! Inclusion Works! Training PowerPoints™

New documents to support in trainings of Inclusion Works!

Click here to download the training files.

Don't forget to get your copy of Inclusion Works!

Hot off the presses: Winter 2012 Newsletter

Map Newsletter logo. Two overlapping newsletters, with the wording MAP NewsletterTopics in this issue include: Changes to Early Start, MAP's New Resources, New Publications on Response to Intervention, & IDEA 2004 Regulations Download to read

Find past issues of the MAP Newsletter in the Archive.

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Hot Topic Summer 2011

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body image. Two children riding tricycles on a playground. For resources and websites that provide strategies to support physical health and stress reduction with special attention to children and youth with disabilities.