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About The Tribal Early Learning Initiative

Tribal early childhood development programs that serve young children and their families, including Head Start/Early Head Start, child care, and home visiting, have historically been developed in “patchwork” fashion in response to specific needs. They frequently have separate funding sources, standards, regulations, and governance structures. Early childhood grants to Tribal Nations generally originate with the federal government. Three of the primary programs, Head Start, the Child Care and Development Fund, and the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program, are administered by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

Over the past decade, ACF has created a Tribal Early Learning Initiative to support more coordinated early childhood systems in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Two cohorts of Tribal early childhood leaders worked together in peer cohorts on early childhood systems building in 2012 and 2017. In 2022, ACF solicited interest in a third TELI cohort from all Tribal grantees of the Child Care and Development Fund (the program with the widest reach). Forty-nine Tribes expressed interest in working on system-building activities and eight opted into intensive technical assistance provided by ACF which created the ECFC/NAP/ACF Public Private Collaboration.