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Columbia University

1. Project Identifier Information
   
   
   1. Project Title: Columbia University
   2. Project Number: U05MC05056
   3. Email address: jk340@columbia.edu
   
   
2. Budget
   
   

   1. MCHB Grant Award Amount: (Line 1, Form 1)	$350,000
   2. Unobligated Balance: (Line 2, Form 1)	$0
   3. Matching Funds: (if applicable) (Line 3, Form 1)	$0
   4. Other Project Funds: (Line 4, Form 1)	$0
   5. Total Project Funds: (Line 5, Form 1)	$350,000
   The MCHB Grant Award Amount may differ from the total budget amount displayed on the Snapshots page due to grant actions that occurred after this report was submitted. These grant actions would include supplemental funding such as carryovers and extensions.

   
   
3. Type(s) of Service Provided
   
   
   • Infrastructure Building Service
   
   
4. Project Description on Experience to Date
   
   
   1. Project Description
      
      
      1. Problem:
         
         MCHB Strategic Plan for Early Childhood goals are: to provide leadership for early childhood comprehensive systems (ECCS); and to address access to care, social-emotional development, early care and education, parent education, and family support. Our project informs state ECCS policy efforts.
         
         
      2. Goals and Objectives: List up to 5 major goals and time-framed objectives per goal for the project.
         
         

         Goal 1:	Synthesize and generate new knowledge that core stakeholders can use to improve early childhood policies, and practices and systems for young children and families.
         Objective 1:	To ensure that THRIVE addresses state priority policy analysis needs.
         Objective 2:	To synthesize and generate knowledge for core stakeholders about policy strategies to facilitate improved child health and school readiness outcomes
         Goal 2:	Actively promote the transfer of knowledge about effective policies and practices among core stakeholders.
         Objective 1:	To design and implement strategies to promote the active transfer of policy knowledge among core stakeholders about early childhood system and other approaches to improving child health and school readiness outcomes
         Objective 2:	To design/and or identify tools that can help states and communities adopt/adapt promising policy and service delivery strategies
         Objective 3:	To design/and or identify tools that can help states and communities assess and improve basic child health and early childhood policies
         Goal 3:	Promote broad interest in early childhood systems and policy strategies to integrate child health, child development, and family support services into child health and early childhood practices.
         Objective 1:	To engage national leaders in dialogue about integrated service and policy strategies to improve child health and school readiness in all young children, including those with special health care needs and other vulnerabilities.
         Objective 2:	To actively disseminate information to the broader policy community of professionals, policy makers, researches, and advocates working to improve health and school readiness outcomes

      3. Activities/Methodology undertaken to meet project goals:
         
         Method I. Generate and synthesize information through: state needs assessments, short reports, topical issue briefs, research syntheses, and in year five, a 50 state report. Method 2. Actively promote the adoption of effective policies and practices through peer-to-peer interactions in a Virtual Policy Sharing Network that relies on telephone and Internet technology. Method 3. Develop tools for policymakers at both the state and community level. Method 4. Actively disseminate PPAEC materials and information about systems of care to a broad network of both state and national stakeholders. THRIVE will focus on policy and practice knowledge that can help states (1) reduce health disparities; (2) improve services for young children with special vulnerabilities, including children with special health care needs and those facing social and emotional challenges; (3) maximize the impact of existing policies and funding streams (4) help states meet performance measures related to Healthy People 2010, Title V, and the State Early Childhood Comprehensive grants; (5) promote family leadership and (6) address other critical policy issues, such as maternal depression.
         
         
      4. The first three Healthy People 2010 objectives which this project addresses are listed below.
         
         
         1. Related to Goal 1: Improve access to comprehensive, high-quality health care services (Objectives 1.1- 1.16).
         
         
      5. Coordination: List the State, local health agencies or other organizations involved project and their roles.
         
         All State Title V Agencies, particularly Title V directors and ECCS staff coordinators, will be involved in this project through conference calls, materials development, and meetings. The Early Childhood Health Council partners, including Health Systems Research and other technical assistance entities are linked through regular communication. THRIVE also will link to other private, non-profit organizations engaged in policy analysis (e.g., Zero to Three, Georgetown University).
         
         
      6. Evaluation : briefly describe the methods which will be used to determine whether process and outcome objectives are met.
         
         An innovative evaluation, grounded in theory, will help Project THRIVE track emerging early childhood system developments and assess the contribution that THRIVE has made. This approach will give particular attention to the level of engagement of state MCH leaders and their stakeholder partners, as well as to the extent of policy and program change resulting from ECCS and THRIVE activities.
         
         
   2. Continuing Grants ONLY
      
      
      1. Experience to Date :
         
         
         
         
      2. Website URL and annual number of hits:
         
         URL:
         
         Number of hits:
         
         
5. Key Words
   
   
   • Access to health care
   • Child day care
   • Early childhood development
   • Early childhood education
   • Family support
   • Medical home
   • Mental health
   • Policy analysis
   • Systems development
   • Young children
     
     
6. Annotation:
   
   Project THRIVE, the Public Policy Analysis and Education Center for Infants and Young Children at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has as its core mission increasing knowledge and providing policy analysis that will help states build and strengthen comprehensive early childhood systems and link policies to assure access to high quality health care, early care and learning, and family support. Each year, Project THRIVE will develop short reports responsive to state priority needs for information, as well as one major topical issue brief of interest to the broader community. Core stakeholders will participate in an interactive Virtual Policy-Sharing Network, ongoing informal conversations, and national policy Roundtables.
   
   

Are the Data Reported on this Form Provisional or Final?

Provisional

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