Virginia Early Childhood State Plan

Virginia's Early Childhood Investment: Creating a system for healthy, successful children.

The Early Childhood State Plan, completed December 2005, provides a blueprint and plan of action to be utilized by state, local and community agencies to provide a family-centered, coordinated, prevention-oriented, and funded system of services to support the health and development of young children birth to five years of age. Throughout 2004-05, over 100 public and private partners collaborated to articulate the following goals and to devise a plan to reach them:

• Virginia has the capacity to provide a comprehensive, consumeroriented system of information, support, prevention, and intervention services to families and children birth to age five.
• A coordinated method of delivering a full spectrum of easily accessible services needed by children and families is developed in all communities and supported by state agencies.
• Families and the public have knowledge, understanding and the opportunity for direct involvement in all levels of the early childhood system.
• The early childhood system is sustainable, has flexible financing and resources, is standards driven, and uses quality indicators to measure progress.

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What follows are links to both the condensed and the complete versions of the Virginia Early Childhood State Plan. Each plan is framed by the four goals of infrastructure, integrated systems of care, family and public engagement, and evaluation and finance.
The condensed version serves as an overview for each goal, outlining the objectives and strategies developed by the work groups throughout the planning period. It does not contain activities for each strategy.

The complete version of the plan is broken down by lettered headings which correspond to objectives in the plan. Each objective contains detailed strategies and activities developed by the VECCS workgroups, incorporating evidence based research and practice, for service delivery for each of the four goals.

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