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Project RISE: Reimagining Intervention to Support Early Childhood is a five year, $1.25 million federally funded grant through the US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs. The goal of Project RISE is to prepare highly qualified, diverse early intervention providers to work with infants and toddlers with identified delays and/or disabilities and their families. Project RISE will create a Multicultural Early Intervention concentration within the Birth-4 non-licensure early childhood pathway. This project will fund scholars in the last two years of their program with modified and additional coursework and experiences to prepare highly qualified early intervention professionals. There will be two cohorts funded through Project RISE. The first cohort of scholars will begin coursework in the Fall 2024.

Benefits

  • Full tuition for 2-year program
  • Stipend per semester for childcare, books, and housing
  • Travel paid to attend Division of Early Childhood Education Conference with your Cohort

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Requirements

  • Associate's Degree in Early Childhood Education (ECE)
  • Or, pre-requisites for ECE non-licensure program
  • U.S. Citizenship

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NMSU HEST program receives grant to train diverse group of early interventionists

A program in New Mexico State University’s College of Health, Education and Social Transformation recently received a federal grant to recruit and train students from diverse backgrounds to become highly qualified early intervention providers.

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