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System Requirements:
- Build and Support Partnerships
- Fund and Invest
- Develop Policy
- Build Public Engagement
- Share Accountability
- Generate Education and Leadership Opportunities
GOAL: All children are valued, safe, healthy, and ready to succeed
Strategies
| Goals |
Strategies |
Early Education & Care
High quality early learning programs are available, affordable, and accessible for all children, birth to kindergarten entry, and address children's diverse abilities and needs. |
- Evaluate and reward high quality
programs through Quality, Rating
and Improvement System (QRIS)
development and tiered
reimbursement system
- Make funding available for facility
renovation and infrastructure
upgrades
- Monitor children's progress
through ongoing assessment
- Identify and adopt common tools
to measure growth, development
and Kindergarten readiness; provide
training
- Promote awareness of importance
of early learning and types of
program options available
- Utilize Hawaii's Early Learning &
Development Standards as a tool to
enhance program quality
- Develop on-site supports
(coaches, mentors, itinerant special
education personnel) to address
children's diverse abilities and needs
- Develop school transition teams
(including parents) to annually
review effectiveness of policies and
practices
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Health
Access to a comprehensive array
of health services is available,
including prenatal, vision, hearing,
nutrition, oral health, behavioral,
and medical services. |
- Engage in consumer health
insurance education and enrollment
campaign
- Link families to community health
centers and low-cost clinics
- Expand screening activities
statewide
- Increase parent and practitioner
awareness of early identification and
referral
- Build a network of child care
health consultants and early
interventionists for on-site support to
early learning programs
- Promote Medicaid reimbursement
for children's behavioral health
services
- Enhance health and safety
standards in child care licensing
regulations
- Incorporate health and safety
standards into daily routines
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Parent Education & Family Support
Parenting and child development
information, and economic and social
services and supports are available and
utilized to ensure positive adult/child
relationships and family strengthening. |
- Provide families with information
and tools to strengthen family
involvement in children's growth and
development
- Increase awareness of factors
impacting children's health, safety
and well-being
- Increase and strengthen parent
networks
- Develop capacity within the early
learning system to engage in family
support
- Strengthen and support family
leadership through effective training
models
- Provide opportunities for
parent leadership in early
learning settings, communities,
and advocacy
- Advise employers in
developing family-friendly
policies
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Workforce & Professional Development
A comprehensive workforce
development system is in place,
including professional development
supports, that ensures Hawaii's children
are cared for by highly effective
practitioners who are fairly compensated. |
- Increase availability of, and access
to, higher education courses and
community-based training in all
communities
- Create information clearinghouse
and website
- Develop a credentialing system for
all early learning practitioners
- Establish guidelines for a
career lattice and framework
for compensation
- Establish a dedicated
funding source for professional
development incentives and
compensation
- Promote staff professional
development plans in all
settings
- Enhance application of
professional development
content through on-site
consultation and training
supports
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Outcomes
| Goals |
Outcomes |
Early Education & Care
High quality early learning programs are available, affordable, and accessible for all children, birth to kindergarten entry, and address children's diverse abilities and needs. |
- Increase in programs accredited
or engaged in quality improvement,
as defined by a standards-based
quality system
- Increase in children
participating in quality early
learning programs, including
under-represented and special
populations
- Increase in parent choice
promoted through a variety of
program settings (center-base,
home-base, family/child interaction
learning, and family child care) in
all communities
- Increase in availability of
subsidies for families who cannot
afford tuition costs
- Increase in children who are
ready for school
- Increase in early learning
settings and schools (public
and private) implementing
effective transition policies
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Health
Access to a comprehensive array
of health services is available,
including prenatal, vision, hearing,
nutrition, oral health, behavioral,
and medical services. |
- Increase in children who have
consistent medical/dental
insurance coverage and utilize
services as needed
- Increase in children with medical
homes receiving recommended
primary and preventive care
- Increase in children who are fully
immunized
- Increase in children screened
for developmental, behavioral,
vision and hearing prior to
kindergarten entry
- Increase in children receiving
appropriate and coordinated
behavioral health services (for
social –emotional concerns)
- Increase in children with dental
homes
- Increase in women receiving
prenatal care
- Increase in parents who
recognize potential health and/or
developmental issues and connect
to appropriate resources
- Increase in early learning
settings that promote health, safety
and well-being
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Parent Education & Family Support
Parenting and child development
information, and economic and social
services and supports are available and
utilized to ensure positive adult/child
relationships and family strengthening. |
- Increase in families provided
information on healthy child
development and supportive
services
- Increase in families able to
support children's healthy
development and/or know where to
go for needed information and
services
- Increase in children living in
safe, stable and supportive families
(decrease in child abuse and
neglect)
- Increase in families whose basic
needs are met in a timely and
coordinated manner
- Decrease in children who are
living in poverty and/or
homelessness
- Increased parent engagement
and leadership is evident at the
program, community and policy
levels
- Policies in the workplace
support families
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Workforce & Professional Development
A comprehensive workforce
development system is in place,
including professional development
supports, that ensures Hawaii's children
are cared for by highly effective
practitioners who are fairly compensated. |
- Increase in qualified and
effective professionals in early
learning programs and settings in
all communities
- Increase in early childhood
practitioners whose compensation
is commensurate with other jobs,
roles and positions that require
similar education, experiences, and
responsibilities
- Increase in retention rates for
practitioners
- Increase in professional
development supports (i.e.,
outreach efforts, career advising,
diverse delivery methods, and
financial assistance) in all
communities
- Increase in assistance to
employers to support professional
development activities of staff
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- Hawaii's Early Learning
Council Provides a
Framework That:
- Recognizes the needs of the whole child,
the family, and the practitioner.
- Represents a collective vision for a
comprehensive early childhood system.
- Focuses on specific measurable outcomes.
- Guides, organizes, and focuses the actions
and accountability of the Early Learning
Council and public/private stakeholders.
- The Work is Guided by the
Following Assumptions:
- Framework focuses on children prenatal to
age 5.
- Quality early learning occurs in a variety of
settings.
- Caring interactions between adults and
children are essential to optimal learning.
- Strategies seek to assure increased
access, quality, and equity for all children and
their families.
- Participation in the early childhood system
is voluntary.
- Diversity in cultures, languages, and
abilities requires recognition and response.
- Data is utilized for decision-making and
assuring accountability.
- Collaborative partnerships are used to
leverage resources.
- Early care, health and school readiness are
acknowledged as major contributors of
economic growth.
- System building is incremental and
requires long-term commitment.
HAWAI'I EARLY LEARNING COUNCIL
website: http://elc.k12.hi.us/
email: elc@atmail.k12.hi.us
PHOTOS COURTESY OF INPEACE AND GOOD BEGINNINGS ALLIANCE
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