Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems ECCS

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Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS)

• Becky Bailey
• Child Adolescent Health Services
• North Dakota
• Department of Health

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Overall Goal

• To support states to plan, develop and ultimately
  implement collaborations and partnerships to
  support families and communities in their
  development of children that are healthy and
  ready to learn at school entry.

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Funding

• Health Resources and Services Administration is
  the funding source for ECCS.
• The North Dakota Department of Health was awarded
  funding for the ECCS Grant on July 1, 2003.

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Phases

• Planning
• July 2003 to December 2005

• Implementation
• Began March 2006

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Essential Components

• Access to Health Insurance and Medical Home
• Mental Health and Social/Emotional Development
• Early Care and Education/Child Care
• Parent Education
• Family Support

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Essential Components

• Access to Health Insurance and Medical Home
  providing comprehensive physical and child
  development services for all children in early
  childhood including children with special health
  care needs and assessment, intervention and
  referral of children with developmental,
  behavioral and psycho-social problems.

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Essential Components

• Mental Health and Social/Emotional Development
  availability of services to address needs of
  children at risk for the development of mental
  health problems and service delivery pathways to
  facilitate entrance of at risk children into
  appropriate child development and mental health
  delivery systems.

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Essential Components

• Early Care and Education/Child Care services
  for children from birth through age five years of
  age that support childrens early learning,
  health and development of social competence.

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Essential Components

• Parent Education services that provide support
  to parents in their role as prime educators of
  children.

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Essential Components

• Family Support services that address the
  stressors impairing the ability of families to
  nurture and support the healthy development of
  their children.

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Healthy North Dakota (HND)

• Statewide initiative
• Focuses on improving the health of every North
  Dakotan
• Community driven process
• Dynamic statewide partnership

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Healthy North Dakota (HND)

• Early Childhood identified as a priority area
• Healthy North Dakota Early Childhood Alliance
  (HNDECA) provides leadership in the area of
  early childhood and identifies strategies for
  building a Healthy North Dakota

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Healthy North Dakota Early Childhood Alliance
(HNDECA)

• HNDECA first meeting May 2004
• Member programs described their purposes and gaps
• Began work on vision, mission, guiding
  principles
• Developed broad goals

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ECCS HNDECA

• Strategic planning
• Collaboration building efforts
• Assist in promoting the development of a
  comprehensive system of existing early childhood
  services within the five essential components

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HNDECA Vision

• Support families and communities in their
  development of healthy children who are ready to
  learn.

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HNDECA Mission

• Mission Provide leadership by planning,
  developing, and implementing collaborations and
  partnerships to support families and communities
  in their development of children in the following
  areas
  Access to health insurance
  medical home
• Mental health and social emotional
  development
• Early care and education/child care
• Parent education
• Family support

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HNDECA Guiding Principles

• Our work will be child centered and inclusive of
  all children, ages 0 to 8 years old.
• We respect the primary roles parents have in
  their childrens lives.
• We respect diversity of all populations in North
  Dakota.

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HNDECA Guiding Principles

• We believe,
• All families have strengths and are included as
  partners in all decisions that affect their
  children
• All families deserve equal access to quality
  services
• All agencies have strengths

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HNDECA Guiding Principles

• We will collaborate effectively through
  communication and shared resources
• Our work will result in family friendly services
  delivery
• Our work will always be creative and open to
  change

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HNDECA Sub-committees

• Focused on the essential components
• Access to Health Insurance and Medical Home
• Mental Health and Social/Emotional Development
• Early Care and Education/Child Care
• Parent Education
• Family Support incorporated throughout

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HNDECA History

• HNDECA May July 2004
• HNDECA Steering Committee Retreat October 2004
• HNDECA January 2005 (four sub-committees
  formed)
• Sub-committees met twice March 2005 to June 2005

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HNDECA History

• HNDECA meeting July 2005
• Sub-committees met once or twice August 2005 to
  October 2005
• HNDECA meetings November December 2005
• Implementation plan submitted March 2006

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HNDECA History

• Plan approved without conditions and ND moved
  into the implementation phase March 2006
• Four contracts awarded for implementation phase
  April 2006
• Key People meeting June 2006
• ECCS Grant application submitted June 2006

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HNDECA History

• Additional contract awarded for implementation
  August 2006
• Grant application approved without conditions
  August 2006
• HNDECA Steering Committee meetings August
  October 2006
• HNDECA meeting October 26, 2006

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ECCS National Conference

• Early Childhood Networking meeting held September
  25 26, 2006 in Reston, Virginia.
• Paul Ronningen (DHS), Linda Reinicke (CCRR), and
  Becky Bailey (NDDoH) represented North Dakota

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ECCS National Conference

• Meeting focused on four themes
• Governance
• Early Childhood Consultation
• Financing
• Strengthening Families
• Plenary Session covered each theme along with
  breakout sessions

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Conference Highlight

• North Dakota was highlighted at a national level
  for having infant-toddler consultation

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Focus on Needs

• Sustainability
• Results
• Local Champions

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Resources

• www.bornlearning.org
• Early Learning is one of United Ways top 3
  strategic initiatives
• www.pathwaystooutcomes.org
• Addresses school readiness
• Includes list of actions that lead to goals
• Includes evidence and indicators

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Grant Update

• 44 of 52 states are in the implementation phase
• Kudos as grantees are doing astounding things
• NDs grant accepted without conditions
• One minor change of moving funds from equipment
  to supplies category

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Grant Update

• Project officers will be scheduling conference
  calls with grantees
• Needs can be discussed at that time
• Evaluation of the ECCS program is being evaluated
  
• North Dakota will be involved in the second phase
  of evaluation

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Joint Meeting January 2007

• Collaboration of ECCS, Child Care Administrators,
  Head Start, Others
• States will have teams of five
• Strengthen advance partnerships at State and
  Federal levels to enhance systems for early
  childhood development

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Joint Meeting 2007

• NDs Leadership Team Donene Feist, Dr. Linda
  Jagielo, Linda Reinicke, Linda Rorman Becky
  Bailey
• ND identified priority area of structures and
  governance for early childhood systems

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Proposed Budget 2006-2007

• Requests total gt 250,000
• Contractual line item 74,622
• HNDECA Steering Committee provided
  recommendations to ECCS Coordinator

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Proposed Budget 2006-2007

• ECCS Coordinator considered pertinence to the
  implementation plan, past support provided,
  statewide impact, relationship to five components
  of the grant, and guidance from federal project
  officer
• ECCS Coordinator provided proposed budget and
  gathered additional input from potential grantees
  and Steering Committee

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Proposed Budget 2006-2007

• Mental Health Association of North Dakota (MHAND)
  3,000
• NDSU Extension 10,000
• Child Care Resource Referral (Bismarck) 11,000
• Child Care Resource Referral (Fargo) 35,000

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Proposed Budget 2006-2007

• Childrens Special Health Services (CSHS) 8,000
• Minot State University 5,000
• Special Projects 2,622

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Other Budget Requests

• Department of Public Instruction 24.95 /book
  supply budget
• Community Awareness of Mental Health 919
  carryover funds from 2004-2005
• Expulsion Survey 10,000 look at funding from
  other areas (SSDI) or graduate projects

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Next Steps

• Formal application process to follow
• Contact potential grantees
• Grantees provide additional information relating
  to needs and budget justification
• Review applications
• Contract awards

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The Future of ECCS Funding

• Unsure of security of funding
• Hoping to know by end of 2006
• Need 1.5 years prep time for future funding
• Funding may look like implementation
• May be competing or continuing competing
• Look at what goals are met in each state

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ECCS in ND

• Children face a variety of challenges
• Comprehensive systems support families during
  their childrens first years of life
• Support will affect what type of learner they
  will be and who they will become

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ECCS in ND

• Implementation of the State ECCS plan will
  support families and communities in their
  development of children that are healthy and
  ready to learn at school entry