Lessons Learned from the ECCS CoIIN Coordinating Center’s Evaluative Efforts
PA RT N E R S HIP DEV ELO PMENT MAIN FINDINGS
> On the local level, participant reported facilitators
and barriers emphasized community-based work and communication (i.e., community leadership, aligning missions). State-level facilitators and barriers focused on systems, priorities, and leadership (i.e., infrastructure development, stakeholder education, funding, and resources).
> During the five years of the Early Childhood
Comprehensive Systems Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (ECCS CoIIN), partnerships were strengthened at both the state and local levels as well as between the state and local levels.
> Partnerships served as a key strategy to improve, develop, and strengthen Early Childhood Systems (ECS) and policy implementation.
> Partnerships with early care and education leadership,
early childhood initiatives and coalitions, and public health and human service agencies grew throughout ECCS CoIIN. Toward the end of the five-year ECCS CoIIN project, partnerships with executive and legislative leadership also grew, while partnerships with academia/nonprofits and businesses modestly regressed.
U Common barriers to partnerships discussed
among both Impact Grantees (IGs) and Place-Based Communities (PBCs) were related to developing relationships and aligning priorities.
> Key outcomes resulting from strengthened partnerships
included progress in ECS building and coordination, accountability, sustainability and spread of successful policies and programs, greater incorporation of the family and community voice in ECS and policies, aligned policy priorities and implementation, and cross-sector capacity building.
National Institute for Children’s Health Quality
