Early Childhood and Family Policy

Learn the tools to analyze policies and communicate with decision-makers. The Early Childhood and Family Policy (ECFP) graduate certificate builds essential skills in policy development, analysis, evaluation, and communication. Students develop an interdisciplinary lens to understand the impact of early childhood and family policies across systems that address health care, education, child care, family leave, mental health, child maltreatment, parental incarceration, and minimum wage. A just society is undergirded by quality services distributed equitably and sustainably to support children’s optimal development during the early years. This graduate certificate places students at the helm of a new era of policies that impact children and families.