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Tribal lands are located within one Early Learning Coordinator (ELC). The Northern ELC partners with the following tribal entities: Oman’hon’ Nation Head Start, Santee Sioux Head Start, Educare in Winnebago. The following Tribal Health Departments are also part of the Northern ELC partner network: Winnebago, Oman’hon’, Santee Sioux, and Ponca. Finally, the ELC partners with the Nebraska Indian Community College. Through these partnerships, training is scheduled to meet the needs of tribal child care providers, schools serving children of Native American heritage, and the tribal communities of Nebraska.

Effective Date: 10/01/2018

6.2.3 States/territories are required to facilitate participation of child care providers with limited English proficiency and disabilities in the subsidy system (98.16 (dd)). Describe how the state/territory will recruit and facilitate the participation of providers: Effective Date: 10/01/2018

a) with limited English proficiency The Early Childhood Training Center (ECTC) works with several community centers in Omaha metro area (the largest metropolitan area) to ensure training is accessible to providers for whom English is not their primary language. Two of the community centers predominately work with the Spanish speaking population. A third, Heartland Family Service serves a clientele of families and child care providers either from Myanmar and speak Burmese or Karen, or Southeast Asia and speak Hmong. The ECTC approves training for these entities, and provides as many translated resources as possible. The NDE has identified several qualified translators who are being contracted to translate materials into Spanish. NDE is working with the centers and others to find qualified translators for Karen, Hmong, and Arabic. The Midlands Latino Community Development Corporation works with the ECTC to provide training and resources for non-English speakers wanting to work in child care to get licensed and trained. This work will continue.Lead Agency provides some materials in Spanish. NDE/ECTC translates training materials for child care providers. Spanish is the most requested language, others are Arabic, and Hmong. Additionally, NDE works with schools across the state with large ELL populations to try to identify persons who are multi lingual, preferably from non-English speaking cultures who Nebraska Page 258 of 314