Assessing Models of Coordinated Services for Low-Income Children and Their Families

Coordinated services approaches seek to address the multi-faceted needs of families and to support children’s development by providing access to high quality early care and education, while simultaneously addressing additional family needs, such as parenting education, supports for family economic security, and other health and human services.

The project activities included:

• A targeted literature synthesis;
• A national scan of existing state and local coordinated services approaches that coordinate early care and education with family economic security and/or other health and human services;
• Telephone interviews with select state and local coordinated services approaches identified in the scan; and
• Virtual site visits with select state and local coordinated services approaches to gather more in-depth information about how they are serving families on the ground, including their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More information about this project, including this interactive map of state and local coordinated services approaches, can be found at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation website.