Applied Population Lab - PDG Partner

Applied Population Lab

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The Applied Population Lab (APL) provides information solutions through a unique set of skills that unites applied demography, health geography, spatial analysis, information systems, planning, and community development.

2020 PDG funds were used to:

The Leadership Council on Early Years (LCEY)

The Leadership Council on Early Years (LCEY)

Wisconsin has a proud history of investing in children and families as a strategy to ensure our state’s long-term prosperity. A foundational element of Wisconsin’s successful PDG application includes the formation of the Governor’s Leadership Council on Early Years (LCEY), an effort to make strategic connections across state government agencies to better serve and improve outcomes for all of Wisconsin’s children and their families, particularly those who are most vulnerable and underserved.

PDG Partners

PDG Partners

The Preschool Development Grant is a statewide initiative to make lasting changes to the Birth to 5 early childhood state system. Wisconsin will conduct a needs assessment and gather stakeholder feedback to develop a Birth to 5 Strategic Plan – a common agenda to address how all state, regional, and local systems that serve children Birth to 5 will align to produce better outcomes. Direction and leadership comes from the following areas: