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Overview

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INPUTS

Guiding Frameworks
  • KECCS Grant
  • School Readiness Framework
  • Governor and Legislative Priorities
Plan Partners
  • Office of the Governor
  • Early Learning Coordinating Council (ELCC)
  • KECCS Stakeholders
  • Foundations
  • Institutions of Higher Education
  • Business Consortium
Communication Mechanisms
  • Website
  • Implementation Tracking Tool
  • Monthly ELCC meetings
  • Semi-annual KECCS meetings
















TARGET POPULATIONS

image1 Children (birth - 5) image1 Mental Health Centers
image1 Young Children & Families image1 Institutions of Higher Education
image1 Pregnant Women image1 School Districts
image1 Early Childhood
Professionals/Providers/Programs		 image1 Community
image1 Medical/Medicaid Professionals image1 Systems


GOALS
Click anywhere on a Goal box to view corresponding strategies and outcomes.

1. Health Insurance and Medical Homes
  • Increase the percent of births to women having received adequate prenatal care.
  • Increase the number of children in Kansas who have medical insurance and a medical home.
2. Mental Health and Social-Emotional Development
  • Increase the ability of providers to identify, address, and prevent social-emotional problems in early childhood.
  • Increase the early identification of children who need mental health services.
  • Develop a system to provide mental health services so that young at-risk children and families receive needed services.
  • Increase the State's ability to assess social-emotional readiness outcomes.
3. Early Care and Education Services
  • Increase the number of children receiving high quality early childhood education.
  • Increase the number of early childhood programs that are available.
  • Increase the number of schools that provide high quality learning environments.
  • Increase the quality of classroom learning environments.
  • Strengthen relationships schools have with families and communities.

















4. Parent Education
  • Increase the number of programs that promote parent education on the school readiness developmental domains: physical health, social-emotional development, communication and literacy, mathematical knowledge, and symbolic development.
  • Increase the quality of parent education programs.
5. Family Supports
  • Increase the number of mothers who are high school graduates.
  • Increase the number of children living in homes free of violence.
  • Increase the number of children living in families that can afford basic necessities.
  • Increase the affordablility of early childhood programs.