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The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative

The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative. Building a better early childhood system through partnerships Christopher Botsko Altarum Institute. Purpose of ECCS.

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The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative

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  1. The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative Building a better early childhood system through partnerships Christopher Botsko Altarum Institute

  2. Purpose of ECCS To support State Maternal and Child Health Agencies and their partner organizations in collaborative efforts to strengthen the State’s early childhood system of services for young children and their families.

  3. Why Did the Bureau Develop the ECCS Initiative? • A growing body of research (Neurons to Neighborhoods) indicating that intervention during the early childhood period has long-term payoffs • A long-standing commitment to systems-building • A holistic perspective on health • A realization that existing early childhood systems were fragmented

  4. $ $ $ $ Childcare & Early Education Socio-Emotional Health Parent Education Family Support Health Care $ HC PE ECE SEH FS Where Are We Going? One Model is a Community Platform-Based Service System(Neal Halfon) State-Level Agencies Inter-Agency Coordinating Council County/RegionLevel Local Coordinating Council Community-Based Platforms for Services

  5. Core Elements of an Early Childhood Development System Governance to set policy direction for the comprehensive system Standards reflect effective practices, programs, & practitioners and are aligned across the system Provider/ practitioner support to offer technical assistance and promote professional development Families Supported and Children Thriving Research & development includes cross-system data, planning, analysis, and evaluation Monitoring to track program performance and results based on standards Parent Leadership development Communications to inform families, providers, and the public Financing sufficient to assure comprehensive quality services based on standards Early Childhood Systems Working Group

  6. ECCS So Far Lots of exciting things going on, ECCS grantees are: • Designing new governance structures • Working at both the state and community level • Building partnerships across the whole realm of early childhood services • Rethinking measuring outcomes and financing services

  7. How does ECCS promote evidence-based practice? • Knowledge of best practices crosses professional disciplines and program lines, ECCS provides a setting where this knowledge can be brought together and acted upon • Implementing best practices requires cross-agency/cross-discipline efforts and teamwork, ECCS provides the context for getting that done • ECCS provides resources that allows grantees to have staff decided to systems building

  8. What is Needed for Continued Success? ECCS needs your support in order to continue to build more effective systems for children and their families

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