Role: Early Childhood and Family Support Professionals

  • 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…

  • Connecting Families to Services: A Maui Video Story

    Across Maui County, community partners are working together to strengthen early childhood systems and help families get the support they need to thrive. This video highlights a community collaborative at the heart of the team’s work, a new developmental screening kiosk, and the importance of family leadership. Our name is Kākou for Keiki. That means…

  • 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…

  • Change Package for Community Health Centers Part 4: Early Childhood Development Early Intervention

    Part 4 focuses on early childhood development early intervention, providing six actionable change ideas for health centers and pediatric practices. Click on the links below to get started. Access all parts of the Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care here. Early Intervention Change Ideas Each change idea…

  • Change Package for Community Health Centers Part 2: Early Childhood Development Surveillance and Screening

    Part 2 focuses on early childhood development surveillance and screening, providing 10 actionable change ideas for health centers and pediatric practices. Click on the links below to get started. Access all parts of the Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care here. Surveillance and Screening Change Ideas Each…

  • Change Package for Community Health Centers Part 3: Early Childhood Development Care Coordination and Linkage

    Part 3 focuses on early childhood development care coordination and linkage, providing nine actionable change ideas for health centers and pediatric practices. Click on the links below to get started. Access all parts of the Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care here. Care Coordination and Linkage Change…

  • Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care in Clinical Practice

    Early childhood development (ECD) lays the foundation of lifelong health, learning, well-being, and success. The earliest years of life are a critical window for supporting healthy brain development, strong relationships, and positive health outcomes. Community health centers play an essential role in helping children and families thrive. By providing comprehensive, family-centered care, health centers support…

  • Change Package for Community Health Centers Part 1: Early Childhood Development Promotion and Prevention

    Part 1 focuses on early childhood development promotion and prevention, providing 12 actionable change ideas for health centers and pediatric practices. Click on the links below to get started. Access all parts of the Change Package for Community Health Centers: Integrating the Early Childhood Development Continuum of Care here. Promotion and Prevention Change Ideas Each…

  • Learning Network Takeaways: Strategies, Ideas, and Resources for Community Health Centers

    These resources summarize takeaways and best practices from a six-month learning network series held with community health center grantees focused on improving developmental outcomes for children ages 0-5. Each learning network session focused on a key topic related to implementing early childhood developmental services. Community health centers and pediatric care teams can use these summary…

  • December 2025 Newsletter: A Year of Systems-Building Connections, Resources, and Insights

    Access our December 2025 newsletter here, or click the “Download” button above for a PDF version. December 2025 Newsletter Highlights

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