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Early Childhood Comprehensive Impact (ECCS)
Background
Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems, funded by Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) since 2003, are partnerships between interrelated and interdependent agencies/organizations representing physical and mental health, social services, families and caregivers, and early childhood education to develop seamless systems of care for children from birth to kindergarten entry.
Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Impact (ECCS Impact) Grant Program
Using a Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network (CoIIN) approach, the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Impact (ECCS Impact) grant program works to enhance Early Childhood (EC) systems building and demonstrate improved outcomes in population-based children’s developmental health and family well-being indicators. Additionally, these grants develop collective impact expertise, and implement and sustain efforts at the state, county and community levels.
Measuring Success
Within 60 months of the program start, the program’s primary aim is for participating communities to show a 25% increase in age-appropriate developmental skills among their communities’ 3-year-old children.
Secondary aims include:
- strengthening leadership and expertise in continuous quality improvement (CQI);
- achieving greater collective impact in early childhood systems at the state, county, and community level;
- developing primarily two-generation approaches to drive integration of early childhood services vertically and horizontally;
- developing and adopting core sets of indicators to measure Early Childhood (EC) system processes and outcome indicators to measure population impact around children’s developmental health and family well-being; and
- testing innovative Early Childhood (EC) systems change ideas, developing spread strategies and adopting new Early Childhood (EC) policies for sustaining the systems.
Indiana’s Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Impact (IN ECCS Impact)
Vision: All children 0-3 in Indiana achieve their developmental potential.
Mission: To enhance EC health and well-being by connecting families with resources and services through local coordination and collaboration.
The Indiana ECCS Impact project will address the need for increased access to child developmental & maternal depression screenings and improved coordination of early childhood systems by partnering with the Indianapolis Near Eastside and IndyEast Promise Zone to participate in the CoIIN, developing collective impact expertise, and integrating the Help Me Grow (HMG) evidence-based model within the existing MCH MOMs Helpline.
- Purpose: To enhance early childhood systems building and demonstrate improved outcomes in population-based children’s developmental health and family well-being indicators using a Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network (CoIIN) approach
- Goal: To develop collective impact expertise, implementation and sustainability of efforts at the state, county and community levels
- Overall Aim: Within 60 months, the identified community will show a 25% increase from baseline in age appropriate developmental skills among their community’s 3-year-old children
Links
Documents
Near Eastside/IndyEast Promise Zone Map
https://isdh.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=ee4780b854374a9ea7830d8adab7770c
ECCS Quarterly Newsletters
State Advisory Team Meeting Notes
January 5, 2017
April 17, 2017
July 24, 2017
October 30, 2017
PDSA Worksheets
- PDSA #1 Worksheet
- PDSA #2 Worksheet
- PDSA #3 Worksheet
- PDSA #4 Worksheet
- PDSA #5 Worksheet
- PDSA #6 Worksheet
Help Me Grow
Help Me Grow Monthly Newsletters
- March 2018 Newsletter
- April 2018 Newsletter
- May/June 2018 Newsletter
- July 2018 Newsletter
- August 2018 Newsletter
- September 2018 Newsletter
- November 2018 Newsletter
- December 2018 Newsletter
Help Me Grow Summary Documents
- Early Intervention Summary Document
- ECE Provider Summary Document
- Family Summary Document
- Home Visitor Summary Document
- Physician Summary Document
- Call Center Summary Document
- Communication Guide
- Communication Guide--Spanish
If you have any questions or need more information about ECCS, please email ISDHMCH@isdh.IN.gov.