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Focus of Application: State

  • Bringing Communities Together for Young Children: A Washington Video Story

    In Washington, state and local partners work together to make it easier for families to find and access early childhood supports. Through a “connect the connectors” approach, early childhood professionals share knowledge, build relationships, and adapt how they work together. In Grant County and Grays Harbor County, community partners are bringing resources closer to families…

  • Partnering to Strengthen Early Childhood Services: A Colorado Video Story

    Families in the San Luis Valley, a rural region in southwestern Colorado, often face obstacles accessing early childhood services. In this video, state, community, and family partners share how they are working together to improve care coordination, expand HealthySteps, build the workforce, and ensure family co-design. Their efforts are helping create more connected services that…

  • Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood: Tools for Developing Sustainable Policy, Financing, and Payment Strategies

    This toolkit offers a range of practical resources to help organizations finance programs and strategies that support the health of young children. The toolkit can be used by early childhood professionals and teams that support pediatric practices to advance early childhood developmental services, such as health department administrators and program managers. The sections of this…

  • Cross-Sector Engagement Tool

    The Cross-Sector Engagement Tool helps early childhood leaders identify, prioritize, and engage the partners needed to advance systems change. Whether building a new coalition, launching an initiative, or strengthening an existing project, the tool provides a structured way to map relationships and identify opportunities for collaboration. Designed for use at both the state and community…

  • Strengthening Early Childhood Systems: Applied Strategies From the Water of Systems Change Framework

    Grounded in The Water of Systems Change framework, this resource series outlines strategies for six interconnected conditions to drive meaningful and lasting early childhood systems change: policies, practices, resource flows, relationships and connections, power dynamics, and mental models. Each resource offers research- and expert-informed strategies, along with practical actions, that state and local health systems…

  • Expanding Local Early Childhood Systems: Impact of Three Implementation Sites

    Through intensive technical assistance from the ECDHS: Evidence to Impact Center, three teams – known as Implementation Sites – are connecting families to developmental services through local early childhood systems change, collaboration, and family-centered approaches. The following impact fact sheets highlight accomplishments in Colorado, Maui County, and Washington. Success in Action: Creating Lasting Impact on…

  • Strengthening Families and Communities: Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood Impact

    The Transforming Pediatrics for Early Childhood (TPEC) program enhances how pediatric practice settings deliver development care – helping families access services that support healthy growth, school readiness, and long-term well-being. How TPEC Resource Hubs Transform Care TPEC Resource Hubs partner with local pediatric practices to embed innovative, sustainable solutions that expand access to developmental care…

  • Improving Systems to Secure Healthy Futures: Our Center’s Impact

    Since launching in September 2022, the ECDHS: Evidence to Impact Center has helped states, communities, and pediatric practices build systems of care so families receive the services they need, when they need them. Across the country, we are improving systems by translating evidence into sustainable action, strengthening developmental care, aligning financing, building workforce capacity, and…

  • Partner Webinar: Economic Security as a Foundation for Healthy Development

    Economic stability is foundational to meeting basic needs, which are essential for the well-being and growth of children, particularly in their formative years. A stable economic environment ensures that families can provide the necessary resources and support for their children’s development. Join the Safe Babies program on Wednesday, July 23, 2-3:15 PM ET, for a…

  • Administration for Children & Families Webinar: New Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Funding Compendium

    Join the Administration for Children & Families’ Office of Early Childhood Development on Thursday, December 5, 3-4 PM ET, for an overview webinar about their new resource, the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Funding Compendium. The Office of Early Childhood Development released this resource to support states, territories, Tribes, and local communities in…

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