For policymakers and funders
The case for early learning in Idaho
Idaho AEYC publishes what it knows. Everything below is a document you can download, read, and quote directly, with a named person to call when you want the context behind a number.
The shape of the work
What this association covers
- 26 early learning collaboratives across Idaho’s regions
- 1986 the year Idaho educators founded this association
- 44 Idaho counties the work reaches toward
- 5 audiences at the center of every page: families, providers, policymakers, donors, partners
Counts come from Idaho AEYC's own program records and published reports. The collaborative count is the number this site lists by name on the collaboratives page.
Published reports
Documents you can cite
These are the statewide documents. Each one is hosted here as a searchable PDF, so a link in a memo does not break when a website changes.
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2024 Annual Report
Idaho AEYC’s most recent annual report, the year’s work, programs, and finances.
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Idaho Needs Assessment Report
The statewide early learning needs assessment, what Idaho families and children need.
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Idaho School Readiness Project Strategic Plan 2025–2030
The five-year strategic plan for school readiness in Idaho.
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Pocatello-Chubbuck Local Needs Assessment
What Pocatello-Chubbuck families and children need, assessed locally.
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Kendrick-Juliaetta Local Needs Assessment
The Kendrick-Juliaetta communities’ local early learning needs assessment.
In your district
Plans the collaboratives wrote themselves
Several early learning collaboratives published their own needs assessment or strategic action plan. They are the clearest available picture of what a specific Idaho community decided to do about child care, in that community's words.
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Nampa ELC Strategic Action Plan
Nampa Early Learning Collaborative’s strategic action plan.
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North Idaho ELC Strategic Action Plan
The Coeur d’Alene-area collaborative’s strategic action plan.
At the Statehouse
Early Learning Day at the Capitol
Once a year during the legislative session, advocates, collaborative members, and partners from around Idaho come to the Statehouse. It is the easiest single day to meet people from several regions at once.
Video
Idaho AEYC hosts Early Learning Day at the Idaho State Capitol
Plays here on this page. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Who to call
Ask for external relations
Sheralynn Bauder is Director of External Relations and is the right first contact for a legislative or policy question. If she is not the right person, she will say so and hand you to whoever is.
- info@idahoaeyc.org
- (208) 921-8216
- 850 W Front St, Boise, ID 83702