Strengthening Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Through Policy and Cross-State Learning Efforts
This initiative’s primary purpose is to supplement the ongoing work of the Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau funded Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network by enhancing early childhood policy advocacy and implementation.
Who
Community teams in 12 states participating in ECCS CoIIN
Our Role
Along with conducting policy analyses, NICHQ will convene additional experts to provide targeted technical assistance on early childhood policy to the 12 state teams and 28 local communities working to improve early childhood systems.
Funder
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Other Information
View our early childhood page for more information on early childhood systems improvement.
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 Strengthening Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Through Policy and Cross-State Learning Efforts 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.”
