ECAS Team 4

Equitable Access To Programs & Services

 
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Team 4 is working to increase access to early childhood programs and services throughout the state and to resolve program and service gaps community by community. 

Efforts include: 

  • Support capacity-building in the early learning field, with a specific focus on access for infants and toddlers

  • Increase access for children in unstable housing to early care and education programs and services

  • Increase access to services for family engagement and parent leadership with a special focus on fatherhood/male-involvement initiatives

  • Create a comprehensive, virtual and mobile, early childhood resource and referral service

  • Kaina Bonacorsi, Maui County

    Alanna Souza, Kauaʻi Planning & Action Alliance

    Subgroup Convener: Chris Jackson, Retired, formerly with EOEL, Head Start State Collaboration Office

  • Quarterly, 3rd Tuesdays,
    10:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • Team 4 Theory of Change
    (Last updated 2022)

    • Infant/Toddler Workgroup

    • Family Engagement and Supportive Partnerships Workgroup

    • Fatherhood Engagement and Supportive Partnerships Workgroup

    • Child Homeless Action Team (CHAT)

    • Keiki Central Workgroup

    • Neighbor-Island Workgroup


Keiki Central

A workgroup of ECAS Team 4, in partnership with Aloha United Way AUW211, has developed an online resource guide for Hawai‘i’s youngest keiki and their families.

 
 

Learn more about the other Core Teams

 
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