The Purpose of KECCS

The purpose of the KECCS Plan is to:
Ensure that all Kansas children have health insurance and access to medical providers (Goal 1).
Fully integrate mental health and social-emotional development into the early childhood system in Kansas (Goal 2).
Develop a comprehensive and coordinated early childhood care and education system in Kansas birth-5 (Goal 3)
Educate and mentor parents about childhood health, development, and education (Goal 4).
Promote a system that helps families develop and utilize both intellectual and material resources to prepare their children for school and life (Goal 5)
The KECCS Plan utilizes School Readiness as a bridging framework to create a state-wide, unified effort for investing in Kansas through investing in our children.

The KECCS plan does

• Unite State system components, funding streams and initiatives.
• Coordinate existing early childhood programs.
• Improve the reach and impact of public and private investments in early childhood.
• Provide a road map for policy makers, State agencies, and local communities to make programmatic and funding decisions in a unified manner.

The KECCS plan does not

• Dictate what the early childhood system in Kansas should do.
• Limit the development of new ideas or partnerships.
• Provide an exhaustive list of programs in Kansas working on early childhood issues.

Currently in the implementation stage, the KECCS Plan is flexible and dynamic, and can be altered to reflect State priorities.