Overview
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
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Children (birth - 5) | ![]() |
Mental Health Centers |
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Young Children & Families | ![]() |
Institutions of Higher Education |
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Pregnant Women | ![]() |
School Districts |
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Early Childhood Professionals/Providers/Programs |
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Community |
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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.





















