This Update summarizes highlights from Q3 efforts across the Network.

Featured Story: Family Voices - An Effort to Shift Awareness, Narrative and Culture

This Update summarizes highlights from Q2 efforts across the Network.

Featured Story: Effect Policy: Recap of the Hawaiʻi State 2025 Legislative Session

Systems are not built in silos but rather across sectors and industries, through collaborative and rich conversations and shared decision making. This report reflects the heart and hard work of everyone who contributes to meaningful solutions for Hawai‘i's youngest keiki.

Twice a year we gather updates on the many efforts going on across the ECAS Network. This publication summarizes key efforts in the context of Systems Change. Through the concerted effort of a broad range of government and non-government actors operating across the early childhood landscape, Hawai‘i builds momentum for positive change in the systems that support young keiki and their ‘ohana.

In 2023, the ECAS network continued to focus on key needs of young children and families, including infant, early childhood and maternal physical and mental health; family safety and economic security; access to needed programs and services including quality early child care and education; and a strong and stable early childhood workforce.