Support and Scale Promising Practices
ECAS teams serve as a laboratory to develop, incubate and assess innovative practices. Cross-sector collaborations and lessons learned lead to promising practices. Some efforts had their genesis within ECAS teams and have since transitioned to other organizations, where they may become part of ongoing intervention practices.
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.
Makua Allies
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.
Hawaiʻi LATCH
Hawaiʻi LATCH (Lactation Access Transforming Communities)
Improved access to lactation consultation reduces inequities in health care access and improves outcomes for children and families.
Ka ʻUpena Shared Services
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.
Aloha At Home
ECAS Team 2 partners continue to focus on the Aloha at Home initiative to support family strengthening with culturally appropriate resources.
Healthy Keiki, Healthy Future (HKHF)
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.
True Cost Provider Survey
The Child Care Provider Survey is designed to collect data on the expenses needed to sustain services, as well as any and all revenue sources that support child care services.