Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems SEED Project: Scaling Effective Early Childhood Systems Development (ECCS SEED)
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Summary
The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Scaling Effective Early Childhood Systems Development (ECCS SEED) Initiative will advance the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) priorities by preventing chronic disease and improving early childhood health and development. ECCS SEED will fund eligible entities to connect families to evidence-based health services in their communities. Parent leaders and state and local partners will guide this work to ensure services meet families’ needs.
ECCS SEED will:
- Establish or expand Coordinated Intake and Referral Systems (CIRS).
- CIRS gives families an easy single-entry point to assess their health needs andefficiently connect them to services that support healthy children and families.
- Implement evidence-based early childhood health and development models inhigh-need communities.
- Evidence-based early childhood development models improve health and well-being for both parents and their young children and prevent chronic disease. Models are implemented community-wide in pediatric or public health settings,including those in rural areas.
- Lead effective state-level early childhood coordination.
- Effective state-led coordination improves how health care, early learning, family services, and economic support agencies work together to support healthy early childhood development. State-led coordination also expands successful approaches to additional communities in the state, Tribe, or territory.
- Achieve sustainability.
- Align project activities with other local, state and federal funding sources so thatlonger-term funding can sustain the work in the future.
Through these areas of focus, ECCS SEED will show measurable improvements in family health outcomes to ensure children grow up in healthy, safe, and nurturing families and communities.