ECAS teams serve as a laboratory to develop, incubate and assess innovative practices and, where promising, help to transition them to more permanent organizational homes. Some efforts had their genesis within ECAS teams and have since transitioned to other organizations, where they may become part of ongoing intervention practices.

Efforts

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.

Aloha At Home

ECAS Team 2 partners continue to focus on the Aloha at Home initiative to support family strengthening with culturally appropriate resources.

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.

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.

Support and Scale Promising Practices