KECCS Plan
The KECCS Plan Graphic
provides an easy-to-view map of the Plan's established early childhood goals, objectives, strategies, and outcomes.
Planning & Implementation Tools
• KECCS Plan in Your Community is a Powerpoint presentation that can be used to inform local communities of the KECCS Plan.
• The Community Tool Box (CTB) supplies over 6,000 pages of practical information to support your work in promoting community health and development. This web site is created and maintained by the Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
• The Logic Model Builder is a step-by-step tool for planning program evaluation activities for child abuse and neglect prevention, family support, and parenting programs. It is a component of the Evaluation Toolkit, developed by the FRIENDS National Resource Center.
• The Levels of Collaboration Scale is a tool that can be used to measure collaboration across agencies or partners in your community. The tool, which was developed by the School Program Evaluation and Research group at the University of Kansas, looks at measuring progress over the five stages of collaboration: networking, cooperation, coordination, coalition, and collaboration.
• The KECCS Converging Systems diagram has been used to identify initiatives that support a comprehensive early childhood system. A template of the "fishbone" is available for local communities to use in local early childhood system planning.
• The State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems website offers links to all ECCS grantees.
• Project Thrive, housed in the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, gives technical assistance to ECCS grantees.
Goals Area Sources
Goal 1 (Health & Medical Home)
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Goal 2 (Mental Health/Social Emotional Development)
• A workgroup of KECCS partners developed the State's Early Childhood Mental Health Strategic Plan in 2009.The workgroup's vision is for healthy social and emotional development of children birth through age 5, supported by a system of promotion, prevention and treatment within the context of the family and the larger community. The plan is a component of the KECCS Plan, which is designed to coordinate existing early childhood programs and improve the reach and impact of public and private investments in the early years of childhood.
• The Social-Emotional Screening Tool (SEST) is a great tool to use to know when to refer young children to a local mental health provider, Infant-Toddler Services (Tiny K - birth to 3 years) or local school district (3 to 5 years) for mental health services. Kansas now requires all children entering foster care to be screened using the Social-Emotional Screening Tool (SEST). The SEST is recommended for all at-risk children ages birth to five for screening referral, and is available in English and Spanish versions.
• Best Practices in Early Childhood Mental Health Programs are outlined in a study by the Kansas SRS. (Information courtesy of the Kansas SRS website.)