News and Update Type: Center Insights
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Identifying What Builds Family Trust in Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems
While there is a growing understanding that a child’s first few years strongly impact their future health and success, evidence suggests that access to necessary care and services remains limited.1 For example, of the children referred to IDEA Part C (a federal early intervention program for young children with disabilities) between July 2021 and June…
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Flourishing in Action: A Texas Health Center’s Approach to Transforming Care by Engaging Families and Promoting Early Relational Health
Family connection is at the heart of pediatric care. Supporting the early relationships between children and their caregivers is foundational to lifelong health, well-being, and flourishing. Fostering early relational health and engaging families as partners in care are critical to setting children on a path toward healthy development and can ultimately drive larger systems change.…
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Helping Community Health Centers Enhance Early Childhood Developmental Services: Highlights From a Needs Assessment Survey
In November 2023, the ECDHS: Evidence to Impact Center disseminated a needs assessment survey with 151 community health centers funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration to enhance early childhood developmental (ECD) screenings, follow-up services, and integrated ECD care team expertise. In support of this ECD grant, we provide technical assistance to help the…
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Welcome to the ECDHS: Evidence to Impact Center!
Before telling you about what the Center does, we want to explain what we mean by “early childhood developmental health system.” It is an organized group of partners and organizations within a state or community – including early childhood professionals, health care providers, family leaders, and others committed to the health and well-being of babies,…
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