May 9th is Strolling Thunder and Child Care Awareness Day 2024

Registration for Strolling Thunder and Advocacy Day is now LIVE on the Right from the Start website! This will be an Advocacy Day event (including lunch) at the Marriott beginning at noon on May 9th with a limited number of tickets for families and educators and then, all participants will stroll to the State House […]

*Traducción en español está abajo Dear BrightStars Rated Programs;  As you know, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in accordance with guidance from national partners, the RI Association for the Education of Young Children (RIAEYC) and the RI Department of Human Services (DHS) temporarily paused the Brightstars renewal process beginning in March 2020.  During […]

Español Está Abajo Dear Child Care Providers, Rhode Island Department of Health’s Center for COVID-19 Epidemiology is pleased to share guidance updates from CDC and operational updates for COVID-19 reporting. Guidance Updates The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its Respiratory Virus Guidance to provide practical recommendations and information to help lower […]

  *Traducción en español está abajo March 28, 2024 Happy Monday! In an effort to streamline the process of applying for and/or renewing a license and to expedite the process of hiring staff for your programs, we have updated our Employment History and Criminal History Affidavits. For those of you who were first licensed under […]

*Traducción en español está abajo   Valued Providers, I am reaching out to you today because we have a great new feature in RISES! We are excited to announce that based on your suggestions, an Educator Document Library has been added as an enhancement to the RISES workforce registry. You will find this feature within the […]

Traducción al Español abajo Round 2 of the City of Providence Early Learning Infrastructure Support Program opened on March 4th. This program offers a competitive pool of grants to expand access to high quality early learning facilities across Providence. For Round 2, a total of $295,000 is available through a competitive application process for licensed […]

RIDE is excited to announce, in partnership with the University of Rhode Island, the OFFICIAL launch of 2 new Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Online Programs: the B.S Degree Completion (with PK-2 certification), and the Accelerated Undergraduate Certificate (PK-2 certification only, no degree) programs. These programs are now accepting applications for Fall 2024 admission […]

The Rhode Island Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (RIDE) is inviting early learning professionals to participate as reviewers of published, comprehensive and/or content-specific early learning curriculum. Through this process, reviewers will evaluate curriculum submissions intended for use in classrooms servicing children ages 3-5 years for alignment to the 2023 Rhode Island Early Learning and […]

En español abajo DHS is partnering with Education Development Center (EDC) on a research study examining how Family Child Care (FCC) providers make use of funding and other supports from DHS and its partners. The study also explores FCC providers’ overall experiences managing their programs. As part of the study, the research team created this […]

*Traducción en español está abajo February 21, 2024 This winter, the Rhode Island Department of Human Services (DHS) awarded more than 4,400 early educators an Early Educator Pandemic Retention Bonus. Thank you to all the early educators serving the children in Rhode Island – we are so appreciative of all of your hard work in […]