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Download full textTullis, Ericka; Sutherland, Carol; Uyeda, Kimberly; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau launched the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) Initiative to promote the healthy development and school readiness of young children. This brief is a planning tool designed to assist states in conducting strategic planning throughout the initiative. It is organized into seven steps as…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, State Programs, Young Children, Family Programs
Tullis, Ericka; Sutherland, Carol; Uyeda, Kimberly; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
The State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) Initiative represents a unique opportunity to improve the quality of life for young children and their families, and support them in reaching their full potential. Under the SECCS Initiative, state mother and child health agencies are being asked to apply MCH experience and expertise to a…
Descriptors: Child Health, Young Children, Strategic Planning, Public Health
Thompson, Lisa; Havinder, Sareen; Toussant, Anika; Franke, Todd; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
To accomplish desired results and to support more effective funding decisions, program planning, and policies, First 5 Ventura County adopted a results-based accountability (RBA) framework in its April 2000 strategic plan. This RBA framework uses regular, periodic and strategic data collection and analysis to inform a process of continuous…
Descriptors: Child Health, Young Children, Strategic Planning, Program Effectiveness
Halfon, Neal; Russ, Shirley; Regalado, Michael – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
In 1998, California voters passed Proposition 10, the California Children and Families First Act, which provides for an excise tax on tobacco products to fund parent education, health and child care programs that promote early childhood development for 0-5s. Since the adoption of its first Strategic Plan (2000), the Orange County First 5…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Young Children, Child Development, Intervention
Thompson, Lisa; Halfon, Neal; Franke, Todd – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
The purpose of this report is to provide the Center for Excellence (CfE) in Early Childhood Development with a set of recommendations regarding how to measure school readiness in Ventura County. This report defines school readiness according to the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) which identified the following three important components of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, State Programs, Program Development, Child Welfare
Thompson, Lisa; Tullis, Ericka; Franke, Todd; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2005
The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities (CHCFC) has developed the School Readiness Critical Pathways (SRCPs) as an evidence-based conceptual model that links related outcomes and strategies. This helps to organize an array of broad and diffuse evidence regarding the strategies that produce school readiness outcomes for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Strategic Planning, School Readiness, Models
Flynn, Margaret; Hayes, Cheryl D.; Uyeda, Kimberly; Halfon, Neal – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2002
This report explores strategies for financing school-linked early learning initiatives. It is meant to help county agencies, school systems, and community organizations coordinate and expand their respective resources. The overall approach relies on partnerships and collaborations to meet the financing challenges faced by individual agencies and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Counties, Community Organizations
Halfon, Neal; Uyeda, Kimberly; Inkelas, Moira; Kumar, Vani; Tullis, Ericka; Rice, Thomas – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
This report outlines the national and state environmental context for the SECCS Initiative in supporting MCH strategic planning in early childhood systems building. This strategic context has implications for roles, relationships, and activities within a planning process and ultimately an implementation process. It summarizes the opportunities and…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Child Health, Young Children, Agency Cooperation
Halfon, Neal; Uyeda, Kimberly; Inkelas, Moira; Rice, Thomas – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
This report is designed to support the planning and implementation of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) Initiative. It addresses a set of principles that these agencies can use to advance their planning process, reach out to new partners, develop collaborative strategies, and build a…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Figurative Language, Change Strategies, Child Health
