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The CLSD Wahiawa Collaborative provides coaching for teachers and families to improve pre-literacy skills, early reading, and writing skills for young children. Find out about accomplishments and outcomes in classroom and home language environments.
For families with children younger than three, one pathway to reunification is by working with the Hawaii Zero to Three Court (HZTT), part of the First Circuit Family Court. The goal of HZTT Court is “expeditious permanency.” In other words, to find a safe, secure, and lasting home for children as quickly as possible. HZTT Court works with a broad set of partners to strengthen family wellbeing.
With support from Nemours Children’s Health and funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Healthy Keiki, Health Future (HKHF) partnership promotes best practices for healthy eating, physical activity, breastfeeding support, and reduced screen time in ECE (early care and education) systems and settings across Hawai`i.
After more than a decade of working together, ECAS network partners are bringing their collective wisdom and shared experience to the project of understanding the ecosystem of support for keiki and ‘ohana across Hawai`i.
Improved access to lactation consultation reduces inequities in health care access and improves outcomes for children and families. Across Hawai`i, many individuals and organizations are engaged in the important work of supporting healthy pregnancies, births, and early childhood health.
Over the past three years, Family Hui Hawai`i (FHH) has guided language and literacy development programming in the Wahiawa community on O`ahu as part of Hawai`i’s Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) grant, in collaboration with Read to Me International and the ECAS network’s Words Matter strategy.