Application for Technical Assistance
February 2025 – May 2025
Important Dates
Application deadline: January 24, 2025
Application notices sent out: February 7, 2025
TA calls begin: February 26, 2025
Questions?
Email Ben Riepe benjamin.riepe@du.edu
Who should apply?
States, territories, or tribes that wish to enhance, expand, or strengthen their implementation of the Pyramid Model with a focus on community-wide implementation.
Entities will identify two members of their leadership team/work group to participate on all calls and work with their larger team on their community-wide implementation effort.
Meeting Dates
Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:30 EST on:
- Session 1: February 26
- Session 2: March 12
- Session 3: March 26
- Session 4: April 9
- Session 5: May 14
- Session 6: May 28
In addition, NCPMI facilitators will schedule an individual consultation with participating state teams in February or March to discuss the state’s strategic priorities.
The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) is offering a technical assistance opportunity to states, territories, or tribes that wish to enhance, expand, or strengthen their implementation of the Pyramid Model with a focus on community-wide implementation. NCPMI is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to provide training and technical assistance to state (territory or tribal) systems for the implementation of the Pyramid Model for Promoting the Social and Emotional Competence of Infants, Toddlers, and Young Children (Pyramid Model) and address factors that influence disparities in early childhood social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes.
In the community-wide implementation, early childhood program administrators, family members, practitioners, and community partners collaborate as a community leadership team to assess their strengths in the implementation of the Pyramid Model across the community and develop a plan to provide training, technical assistance, and other support to expand implementation in support of children and families in the community. Community-wide leadership teams might address the following elements in their planning: funding of implementation activities, communication and visibility, establishing and supporting implementation sites, family engagement and partnerships, providing professional development and program implementation coaching, and ongoing evaluation and data decision-making.
This intensive technical assistance opportunity will provide a cohort of 5-8 states, territories, or tribes with resources, information, systems implementation strategies, and support to develop and initiate a strategic plan for community-wide implementation. States implementing the Pyramid Model community-wide will be invited to share the lessons they have learned and their resources with the cohort.
Entities applying for participation in the cohort TA should identify two members of their Pyramid Model leadership team or workgroup to participate in all calls and to work with their larger team on implementation planning for addressing community-wide Implementation.
