The New Mexico Early Childhood Strategic Plan continues and answers the work in the Early Childhood Needs Assessment (completed in 2019). This Plan charts out key Goals, Objectives, and Actions to meet the identified needs, plus Measures to track progress. Taken...
January 13, 2021 — The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) is seeking a waiver from the United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services. The purpose of this waiver is to request approval to readjust the ECECD’s current...
The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (NM ECECD), Early Care Education and Nutrition, Family Nutrition Bureau announces that it will once again administer the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) in New Mexico to help address the gap in children’s...
Strategic Investments Will Preserve Key Services for Children and Families, Support Healthy Child Development and Cradle-to-Career Success, and Aid State’s Economic Recovery –December 3, 2020 In testimony before the Legislative Finance Committee, the New Mexico Early...
ECECD Seeks Public Comment on or Before Jan. 6 Public Hearing –November 25, 2020 The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) has released a series of proposed rule changes which aim to make it easier for families to access child care...
Many of you will have seen our Governor’s press conference today, read her latest press release, or seen the latest Public Health Order. ECECD, in response, is limiting child care to those families who absolutely and essentially need care. This restriction is in...
