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The Utah Early Childhood Statewide Data Integration Project
1. A project of the Early Care and Education
Committee,
Early Childhood Utah
Department of Health – Bureau of Child
Development
2. Governor’s State
Early Childhood
Advisory Council on
Comprehensive
Early Care and
Systems State Team
Education
Early Childhood Utah
3.
4. Access to Health Care and Medical Homes
Early Care and Education
Parenting Education and Family Support
Social-Emotional Development and Mental Health
5. Programs that support children’s early learning
and development.
Early Childhood Learning Standards.
The Utah Early Childhood Statewide Data
Integration Project.
6. Early childhood programs
are funded and
administered separately.
Data from each program is
maintained independently.
Utah cannot track long term
outcomes for children; and
Utah cannot obtain an
unduplicated count of
children receiving early
childhood services.
7. Utah Department of Health: Baby Watch Early
Intervention Program; Office of Home Visiting; Early
Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative; State
Advisory Council on Early Care & Education
Utah Department of Workforce Services: Office of
Child Care; Head Start State Collaboration Office
Utah State Office of Education: Title I and Special
Education Preschool
Utah Department of Human Services: Division of Child
& Family Services
Local Head Start Programs
The Utah Data Alliance
The United Way
Help Me Grow
8. Mission:
The mission of the Utah Early Childhood
Statewide Data Integration Project (ECDIP) is
to facilitate data sharing and coordination
among early childhood programs in Utah.
9. Are children birth to age 5 on track to succeed
when they enter school?
10. Which children and families are and are not
being served by which programs and services?
11. What characteristics of programs are associated
with positive outcomes for which children?
12. What are the education and economic returns
on early childhood investments?
13. How are data being used now and how will
data be used in the future to inform policy and
resource decisions?
14. UDOH UDA / UEN
EHDI
Post-
secondary
Immun.
Reg.
K-12 Workforce
EI Part-C
VS -Birth
Records
Child
Care
ECDS UDADS
Head
Start
EI Part-B
Foster
Care
OHV
Title 1
Preschool Early-Childhood Researchers Education Researchers
15. UDOH UDA / UEN
EHDI
Post-
secondary
Immun.
Reg.
K-12 Workforce
EI Part-C
VS -Birth
Records
Child
Care CHARM
ECDS UDADS
Head
Start
EI Part-B
Foster
Care
OHV
Title 1
Preschool Early-Childhood Researchers Education Researchers
16. Charm does not store any data.
The data will be stored in the
Early Childhood Data System.
Charm will assign the unique
identifier.
Charm has a sophisticated
record matching program.
Charm has proven “data
bridge” capabilities.
Several programs are already
using the Charm system.
17. The ECDS is being developed
by Multimedia Data Services
Corporation (MDSC).
Data will be encrypted both
during transit and at rest.
Data suppliers and
researchers will NOT have
access to direct identifiers.
UDOH will apply
appropriate disclosure
avoidance techniques for all
direct and indirect identifiers.
18. Data will be sent from the
Early Childhood Data System
to the Utah Data Alliance Data
Warehouse annually.
Only data for school-age
children will be pushed.
The Utah Data Alliance Data
Warehouse will store de-
identified early childhood, K-
12, post-secondary, and
workforce data.
19. An unique identifier will be assigned to a
single child across multiple early childhood
programs and services.
20. The unique identifier will allow de-identified
children’s educational progress and outcomes
to be tracked through early childhood and once
the child enters the public school system.
21. The Early Childhood Data System and the
Utah Data Alliance Data Warehouse will store
de-identified longitudinal information for
analysis and research purposes.
22. Colleen Murphy
Early Childhood Interagency
Coordinator
44 N. Mario Capechhi Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84114
801-883-4679
Notas do Editor
In September 2011, Governor Herbert designated the existing Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems State Team to also function as the State Advisory Council on Early Care and Education.The Early Childhood Comprehensive System (ECCS) Grant is a program of the US Department of Health & Human Services, Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Section 642 B(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Head Start Act requires the Governor to designate or establish a council to serve as the State Advisory Council on Early Childhood Education and Care for children from birth to school entry. This combined team is call Early Childhood Utah.
In order to support parents, it is crucial to understand what programs and strategies best prepare children and families for school success.
Each area is represented by a committee. Each committee has early childhood goals and projects that are being currently worked on. Today we are going to look at the Early Care and Education Committee’s efforts.
There are a variety of early childhood programs and services available to families in Utah. Some examples include programs for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers who have a disability or adevelopmental delay, home visiting support for at-risk new mothers, child care subsidies for low income working families, preschool services offered by local school districts, Head Start comprehensive services for young children living in poverty and their families, and others.
This makes it difficult to have a complete understanding of the needs of families in order to collaborate and coordinate needed services.
Several early childhood programs and agencies are participating in this data integration effort.
Each early childhood program has a piece of the puzzle. When we share data, we have more complete picture of the needs of children and families.
The participating early childhood data keepers met and generated five broad policy questions that we would like to answer. These include:
How will early childhood data be integrated? Key data from multiple early childhood databases will be integrated into the Early Childhood Data System and into the state’s longitudinal data system being developed by the Utah Data Alliance. This will result in a usable source of data from early childhood through elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education and into the workforce. This will enable agencies and programs to track long-term outcomes from early childhood investments, and make better informed policy and resource decisions.
Early childhood data will be integrating through the CHARM electronic broker. The decision was made to utilize CHARM since several participating programs are already using CHARM. Charm was created for case management. Our project is “CHARM-LITE”. We are only using CHARM to assign the unique identifier, match the child records across programs and to de-identify the data. All data in the Early Childhood Data System is de-identified. The Early Childhood Data System will hold aggregate data that can be used for early childhood research.
As we evaluate this data, programs can be improved resulting in better child outcomes.