Early Childhood Colorado Partnership

26 August, 2013

Welcome & IntroductionsSteering 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.

Meeting ObjectivesDiscuss 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.

Setting the StageHistory of the Early Childhood

Colorado PartnershipPartnership work

accomplished to dateCommon threads across

Result Work Groups

201020051995 2000

LOCAL EFFORTS

STATE EFFORTS

NATIONAL EFFORTS

Head Start. Medicaid

1965

Child Care Development Block Grant

1990/92

Welfare ReformTANF

1996

Early Childhood Comprehensive

Systems Initiative

2003

Governor’s Office of First Impressions

1991

Early Care & EducationSystem

Children’s Cabinet

1995

544,959

ChildCare Commission

“Blueprint”2000

577,033503,432

Early Childhood &

School Readiness

Commission2009

623,259

Comprehensive Early Childhood System

2015

639,106

Population Projections for ChildrenAge 8 and Under: Colorado, 1995 - 2015https://dola.colorado.gov/demog_webapps/pag_category.jsf

School Readiness

Commission2005

Early Childhood Leadership

Commission 2010

Consolidated Child Care

Pilots

1997

Smart Start CO Strategic Plan

2002

Early Childhood Colorado Framework

2008

Early Childhood Councils Statewide

2007

Health Integration Initiative

2009

Head Start Re-Authorization

2007

Affordable Care ActMaternal, Infant & EC

Home Visitation2010

Race to the TopEarly Learning Challenge Fund

2011

Early ChildhoodState Systems Team

2003

Early ChildhoodPartners Network

2009

Early ChildhoodColorado Partnership

2012

Framework in Action State Plan

2009-2012

Maternal & Child Health Block Grant

1935

Individuals wtih

DisabilitiesEducation Act

1990

ColoradoHead Start State

Collaboration Office1992

State Early Childhood Advisory Board

1995

Child CareCommission

2001

Child Care Pilot Expansion

1999

SAMHSAProject BLOOM

2002

Office of Early Childhood2012/13

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

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

Quality Improvement: Results Based Accountability

• Safe, Stable, Supportive Families

• Families Engaged as Leaders

• Health and Development on Track

• Successful Learners

Result and Indicators

• Knowledge• Awareness• Access• Equity/Inequity• Isolation• Cultural Barriers• Lack of

Coordination• Economics• Norms, Values• Policies

Root Causes

• XXXX• YYYY• Early Learning

and Development Guidelines

• AAAA• BBBBB• Family

Engagement/Leadership

• ZZZZZ

Strategies

Common Threads

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.

Development of GuidelinesHistory and Existing ResourcesNew ResourcesEC Partners Network

DiscussionState Advisory Council Grant

Opportunity

Development – cont.Guidelines Advisory Board included:

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)

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).

Framework for the Guidelines

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.

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?

Develop-mental Stage

Goal Benchmarks for

Success

Health Predictors Health Measures

Early Childhood (infancy – age 5)

School Readi-ness

Pre-reading and math skills

% of population below poverty level

% of households receiving food stamps

% of children 1-14 with a medical home

% of children who consume sugar sweetened beverages daily

% of children enrolled in early childhood education

Child Maltreatment rate (per 1000 children aged 17 and younger)

% of parents who report behavioral problems in children

% of children living in a household with working smoke detectors and/or carbon monoxide detectors

 

Well child visits in first 15 months

Developmental screening in first 3 years

Well-child visits in the 3rd, 4th and 5th years of life.

% of children receiving dental care (preventative or treatment)

Immunization status

 

Facilitated DiscussionIndividual Reflection: (5 minutes)

What do the Guidelines mean to me, my organization?

How would I, my organization embed, use the Guidelines?

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?

Discussion – cont.Full Partnership Discussion: (30 minutes)

Share individual and table top reflections and discussions.

Document and collect actions and commitments.

Next Steps

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