DOWNLOAD | Parents Know Best: How Family-Led Data Collection and Advocacy Lead to Increases in Early Childhood Funding in Alameda County

Across the United States, local communities and regions have recognized the urgent need to support the health and developmental well-being of young children and their families by coordinating activities aimed at improving children’s health and well-being. Early Childhood Health Equity (ECHE) work seeks to strengthen early childhood systems to support healthy child development and reduce health inequities and disparities that can have a lifelong impact.

This case story describes how family-led data collection and advocacy lead to increases in early childhood funding in Alameda County, Calif. This case story accompanies a related set of issue briefs titled Addressing Early Childhood Health Equity in Communities and States that synthesize the recent work of the ECHE Landscape Project and highlight the themes and findings that emerged across the project activities. Key themes gathered through the ECHE Landscape survey included cross-sector relationships, operationalization of health equity, an adaptation of initiatives to the COVID-19 pandemic, data and measurement, sustainability, and connections between local and state ECHE initiatives.

View the initiative's Executive Summary and Survey Overview for more information on the key findings from the ECHE Landscape Project.

Case Story Parents Know Best

DOWNLOAD | Case Story: Parents Know Best

This case story describes how family-led data collection and advocacy lead to increases in early childhood funding in Alameda County. 

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