Early Childhood Colorado Framework

The Early Childhood Colorado Framework is a collective vision on behalf of Colorado's young children and their families.

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Early Childhood Colorado provides a framework that:

• Recognizes the needs of the whole child and family.
• Communicates the vision for comprehensive early childhood work.
• Focuses on specific measurable outcomes.
• Guides, organizes, and focuses the actions and accountability of public and private stakeholders.

The Early Childhood Colorado Framework takes the abstract "comprehensive systems building" language and ties it to specific strategies for action and concrete outcomes for children and families. It can be used as a communication tool to increase the understanding of stakeholders, leaders, and the public around the importance of early childhood. It can also be used as a planning tool to identify strengths and gaps and facilitate decision making around priorities for new and/or different funding, program, or policy efforts. Finally, it can be used as an evaluation tool to measure change for children, families, and communities.

The Early Childhood Colorado Framework belongs to all interested stakeholder groups and organizations who believe that working collaboratively toward common goals and outcomes will lead to greater success than is possible by working alone. All organizations and entities - both public and private at state and local levels - are leaders on behalf of the Early Childhood Colorado Framework.

For more information, contact Jodi Hardin, Early Childhood Systems Specialist for Early Childhood Colorado at 303-692-2386 or mail@early
childhoodcolorado.org.