Early Childhood Colorado Partnership

1. Early Childhood Colorado Partnership 26 August, 2013

2. Welcome & Introductions Steering Committee Chairs • Sarah Davidson Hoover • Mary Martin • Janine Pryor Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grant Award: mitigation of toxic stress and trauma in infancy and early childhood.

3. Meeting Objectives • Discuss CO’s Early Learning and Development Guidelines and initial efforts to disseminate, embed, and integrate. • Identify Partnership-wide opportunities to maximize the use and impact of the Guidelines. • Connect as Result Work Groups.

4. Setting the Stage • History of the Early Childhood Colorado Partnership • Partnership work accomplished to date • Common threads across Result Work Groups

5. Maternal & Child Health Block Grant 1935 Comprehensive Early Childhood System Head Start. Medicaid1965 Individuals wtih Disabilities Education Act 1990 Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Fund 2011 Affordable Care Act Maternal, Infant & EC Home Visitation 2010 Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative 2003 Welfare ReformTANF 1996 Child Care Development Block Grant1990/92 Head Start Re-Authorization 2007 NATIONAL EFFORTS Early Childhood Colorado Framework 2008 Colorado Head Start State Collaboration Office 1992 SAMHSA Project BLOOM 2002 Framework in Action State Plan 2009-2012 ChildCare Commission “Blueprint” 2000 Smart Start CO Strategic Plan 2002 Early Childhood & School Readiness Commission 2009 Office of Early Childhood 2012/13 Early Childhood Leadership Commission 2010 School Readiness Commission 2005 Governor’s Office of First Impressions1991 STATE EFFORTS Children’s Cabinet 1995 Child Care Commission 2001 Early Childhood Colorado Partnership 2012 State Early Childhood Advisory Board 1995 Early Childhood State Systems Team 2003 Early Childhood Partners Network 2009 Early Childhood Councils Statewide 2007 Consolidated Child Care Pilots 1997 Child Care Pilot Expansion 1999 LOCAL EFFORTS Health Integration Initiative 2009 544,959 623,259 639,106 577,033 503,432 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 Population Projections for ChildrenAge 8 and Under: Colorado, 1995 - 2015https://dola.colorado.gov/demog_webapps/pag_category.jsf Early Care & Education System

7. EC Colorado Partnership • Mission: Works to advance the vision of the Early Childhood Colorado Framework statewide. • Focus and Scope: • Implementation – collective strategies and actions • Communication – internal and external • Learning and Innovation – learning community • Monitoring Results – mutual accountability

9. Quality Improvement: Results Based Accountability • RESULT: condition of well-being for children, adults, families, communities • HEADLINE INDICATOR: measure which helps quantify, describe achievement of RESULT • STORY: what is the root cause(s) at play • STRATEGY: what works to improve these conditions • PERFORMANCE MEASURES: how well the service system, program(s), agency(s) is working

11. Common Threads

12. Early Learning and Development Guidelines • Overview of *why* and *how* the Guidelines came to be. • Discussion of *what* the Guidelines are. • Panel presentation of initial dissemination, integration and use of Guidelines. • Discussion of opportunities, possibilities of Guidelines embedded across and within the full Partnership.

13. Development of Guidelines • History and Existing Resources • New Resources • EC Partners Network Discussion • State Advisory Council Grant Opportunity

14. Development – cont. Guidelines Advisory Boardincluded: • CO Dept. of Education • CO Dept. of Public Health and Environment • CO Dept. of Human Services • Head Start • Early Learning Professionals and Providers • Higher Education • Mental/Behavioral Health Professionals Contractor: Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)

15. Purpose of Guidelines • Improve families’ and professionals’ knowledge of child development. • Guide families and professionals working with children in planning and implementing developmental and learning activities. • Inform or guide developmental support, instruction, assessment, and intervention. • Provide unifying guidelines that are embraced by and embedded in programs and services across the comprehensive early childhood system (e.g. early care and education, home visitation, medical homes, early intervention).

16. Framework for the Guidelines

17. How would YOU describe the Guidelines? • Take a minute to think about how YOU would describe the Guidelines to a colleague or parent. • Turn to partner next to you and share the description - 1-2 minutes.

18. Panel Discussion • Gina Robinson, HCPF and Dr. Steve Vogler, DHHA – health care providers, medical homes • Stacey Kennedy, CDHS – Early Learning Challenge Fund grant activities • Nancie Linville, CDE – Early Learning Professional Development systems • Nan Vendegna, CDE – CPP and Results Matter • Pamela Harris, Mile High Montessori – parent education and support • OTHER?

20. Facilitated Discussion Individual Reflection: (5 minutes) • What do the Guidelines mean to me, my organization? • How would I, my organization embed, use the Guidelines?

21. Discussion – cont. Table Top Discussion: (20 minutes) • What do the Guidelines mean to us, the statewide Partnership? • How do we embrace, embed the Guidelines in our work?

22. Discussion – cont. Full Partnership Discussion: (30 minutes) • Share individual and table top reflections and discussions. • Document and collect actions and commitments.

23. Next Steps

24. Result Work Group Sessions • Reflect on what the Guidelines discussion means related to the Work Group • Review plans, updates since June • Clarify next steps, timelines, responsible parties • Schedule September Result Work Group meeting