ECAS Team 4

Equitable Access To Programs & Services

 

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

    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 2025)

    • 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.

 
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