Champions for Children has been selected as the new FL ECCS place-based community. Champions for Children (CFC), formerly known as the Child Abuse Council, was founded in 1977 as the Hillsborough County community’s answer to the epidemic of child abuse and neglect. CFC prevents child abuse and neglect by providing state-of-the-art family education programs that […]
The purpose of the ECCS Impact Project is 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, Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) approach. An additional goal of the ECCS Impact Project is the development of collective impact expertise, implementation and sustainability of […]
From education to healthcare to public policy, building an early childhood system means tapping a diverse set of stakeholders, each with valuable insight and expertise. Separately, each sector has limited reach. Together, they have unmatched potential. Interested in hearing from the ECCS CoIIN stakeholders about how they’re aligning strengths to form a cohesive system? Watch this […]
The FL Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) Impact initiative is seeking a place-based community to lead local systems building activities aimed at demonstrably improving developmental outcomes for children age 0-3. Interested applicants must document experience in implementing a place-based approach to address community needs, with a particular focus on children age 0-3; have established partnerships with […]
The twelve ECCS Impact grantees and their improvement teams gathered in Arlington, VA, July 17th-19th, for their 4th learning session. This was the second in-person meeting since the start of the grant and teams were excited to learn from one another and share all of the amazing work that is happening at the state and […]
The ECCS state staff hosted a quarterly ECCS meeting in beautiful Altamonte Springs on May 31- June 1st. The first day was the larger advisory group meeting which focused on taking a closer look into the Liberty City and New Town neighborhoods and the assets and barriers of each. The local ECCS coordinators, their agency […]
Florida ECCS has prioritized racial equity in their work both at the state and local levels. According to the National Equity Project, racial equity is more than an intellectual framework but both an outcome and a process. In other words, achieving racial equity takes work! Ghia Kelly, ECCS Project Manager, attended the Racial Equity Institute’s […]
The Florida ECCS Impact Initiative was represented at the Community Indicators Consortium (CIC) Impact Summit in beautiful St. Petersburg, FL. The Summit took place November 16 & 17th and focused on exploring the role of data in supporting community change. The Summit focused on specific issues of interest including: Place-Based Initiatives, Child and Family Well-Being, […]
The Florida ECCS Impact Project is closing out its first year of implementation and a lot of great work has been done at the state and local levels. In the first year, both the Miami Children’s Initiative and New Town Success Zone in Jacksonville have built solid ECCS CoIIN teams, strengthened their teams’ knowledge of […]
State ECCS staff visited the Miami Children’s Initiative in Liberty City and the New Town Success Zone in Jacksonville in November to learn more about their efforts to improve outcomes for young children. The two neighborhoods are part of the Florida Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) Impact Initiative. The team toured both communities and met […]