The Investment Corporation envisions a Michigan where all young children and their families thrive. Part of how we accomplish this is through advocacy and policy work with many partners across the state. Below are ECIC’s policy priorities for the upcoming legislative session, policy briefs and fact sheets, along with information about the Think Babies Michigan Policy Initiative, which we help to lead.
Learn more about ECIC’s policy priorities and Michigan’s prenatal-to-three policy agenda below.
Think Babies MI Policy Initiative
Policy & Advocacy Resources
Child Care and Early Learning
- Child Care and Early Education in Michigan 2023 (Author: First Five Years Fund)
- Michigan’s Infant Toddler Child Care Supply Crisis (ITQI) (Author: ECIC)
- Infant Toddler Quality Improvement Pilot: Early Evidence of Promising Impacts (ITQI) (Author: ECIC)
- Unintended Consequences of Proposed House School Aid & Education Budget on Michigan’s Mixed Delivery Early Care & Learning System (Authors: ECIC & MIAEYC)
- Family Child Care Networks: What They Do and Why They Are Important (Author: ECIC)
- The Child Care Crisis is a Labor Crisis: When Child Care Works, We All Work (Authors: Policy Equity Group, Michigan Transformation System & Pulse)
- Steps to Success: Michigan’s Child Care Subsidy Program – The Family Experience (Author: Think Babies Michigan)
- Steps to Success: Michigan’s Child Care Subsidy Program – The Provider Experience (Author: Think Babies Michigan)
- Early Childhood Educator Tax Credit (Author: Michigan’s Children)
- Child Care Stabilization Grants Supported Increased Care for Infants and Toddlers, Additional Hour Slots (Author: ECIC)
- Child Care Stabilization Grants Expanded the Early Care Workforce, Reducing the Number of Staff Vacancies (Author: ECIC)
Home Visiting
Maternal & Child Health
- Michigan Babies Will Thrive Under FLOC (Family Leave Optimal Coverage) (Author: Think Babies Michigan)
- Family Leave Optimal Coverage (Author: Paid Family Medical Leave Coalition)
- Doula Services for Improving Birth Outcomes (Author: MCMCH Birth Equity Education Project)
- Advancing Doulas in Michigan (Author: MCMCH)
- Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies: Fiscal Year 2024-25 Executive Recommendations (Author: MCMCH)
New Toolkit
Reaching out to Families and Providers for Free and Low-Cost Child Care now available:
Find resources to help early childhood educators, care providers, and stakeholders understand the implications of recent federal policy changes on early childhood programs and funding in Michigan on our new Resources page.
If you have any questions about ECIC’s Policy & Advocacy work, please contact Karenia Randle, Senior Director of Policy & Advocacy, at krandle@ecic4kids.org.