The ECAS Policy Team and the Commit to Keiki Steering Committee built a diverse agenda for the 2025 Legislative Session. The end of Session is the time to celebrate wins, discuss challenges and identify opportunities.
On behalf of the ECAS backbone staff, we wanted to send out some words of encouragement during these very trying times that are inevitably impacting all of us and those that we support.
Twice a year we gather updates on the many efforts going on to improve early childhood outcomes in Hawai‘i and we summarize these key efforts in the context of Systems Change.
The Healthy Keiki, Health Future (HKHF) partnership promotes best practices for healthy eating, physical activity, breastfeeding support, and reduced screen time in early care and education settings across Hawaiʻi.
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. Click here for the Systems Learning Blog.
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.
