The National Early Care and Education Learning Collaborative
A project designed to spread sustainable policy and practice improvements in early care and education (ECE) programs to prevent childhood obesity. The project helps ECE providers improve the quality of care for young children with respect to nutrition, breastfeeding support, physical activity and screen time.
Who
The collaborative involved 810 ECE programs in six states: Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and New Jersey.
Our Role
Provided technical assistance, strategic guidance and faculty expertise in ECE and public health, as well as assisted with collaborative quality improvement, outreach, recruitment and expansion for the project.
Funder
This project was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was in partnership with Nemours.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the The National Early Care and Education Learning Collaborative project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
