ECAS Team 2 partners continue to focus on the Aloha at Home initiative to support family strengthening with culturally appropriate resources.
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.
ECAS engages in SMALLIFY labs that allow our network to identify challenges and create innovative solutions we can rapidly prototype and test to help our systems-level initiatives.
Network partners have been implementing key initiatives to embed culturally appropriate physical activity and nutrition best practices into Hawai‘i’s ECE system and settings.
Some efforts had their genesis within ECAS teams and have since transitioned to other organizations, where they may become part of ongoing intervention practices.
Peer Support for Perinatal Substance Use Disorder (PSUD)
The Makua Allies peer-support program focuses on keeping new mothers who are healing from substance use together with their infants.
Midwifery Integrated
Home Visitation Program
The MI-Home Program provides family planning, prenatal, postpartum, lactation care in a person’s home, shelter, safe space, or via telemedicine.
Family Child Care (FCC) Pathways
ECAS and partners continue to support and advise Windward Community College (WCC) in their ongoing effort to create an educational pathway that focuses on the business-specific knowledge and skills needed by potential family child care providers to start and sustain child care businesses and careers.
Ka ʻUpena Shared Services Project
The Ka ʻUpena Shared Services Pilot Project was created by ECAS partners and funders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing challenges faced by family child care providers and small centers in the state of Hawaiʻi.