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Hawaiʻi Early Childhood State Plan
Hawaiʻi Early Childhood State Plan
The Early Childhood State Plan is an overarching framework that will help coordinate efforts of the State, counties, and community by setting shared priorities and driving the need to collaborate and leverage resources to improve the lives of our keiki and their families. It is the community’s plan.
The five-year plan was facilitated by the Executive Office on Early Learning, and steering committee collaborators from both the public and private sectors statewide. More than 150 additional participants, through islands-wide focus groups and interviews, also spent time reviewing the drafted plan, providing candid feedback, and contributing to the final version to address a unanimous priority to look system-wide, beyond early learning, to consider the whole child. Participants represented a broad spectrum of Hawaii’s community, including parent groups, health professionals, policymakers, early care and education professionals, advocates, philanthropists, higher education, attorneys, and State department personnel.
On the Horizon: Renewing the State Plan in 2025
As part of Activity 2 in the Our Keiki, Our ʻOhana, Our Future PDG B-5 project, we are currently working on the renewal of the Hawaiʻi Early Childhood State Plan. We look forward to renewing our state’s commitment to a more coordinated and effective early childhood system for all of Hawai’i’s children. Through community engagement and ongoing communication with partners, we will update the priorities, strategies, and indicators of success within the State Plan.
We anticipate the public release of the updated 2025 Hawaiʻi Early Childhood State Plan in early 2026.
More information about the 2019-2024 Hawaiʻi Early Childhood State Plan can be found at earlychildhoodhawaii.com
Comprehensive Needs Assessment
Comprehensive Needs Assessment
2024 Comprehensive Needs Assessment
Activity 1 of the Our Keiki, Our ʻOhana, Our Future PDG B-5 project supports the state to assess the pandemic’s impact on the early childhood sector and address any identified gaps through an updated Comprehensive Needs Assessment.
The Needs Assessment Dashboard provides data on Hawaiʻi’s young keiki and access to community resources that support their early learning and healthy development. A wide variety of indicators include demographic characteristics of our early childhood population, high-priority groups, and the extent to which our early learning programs and other community services are able to reach those in need. Interactive maps show data at the school complex level, along with county and state summaries. Users can also download customized data files.
2020 Comprehensive Needs Assessment
Hawai‘i’s comprehensive statewide B-5 needs assessment (2020 NA), funded through the PDG B-5 Initial Grant, sought to understand the early childhood Mixed-Delivery System (MDS) in Hawai‘i. The 2020 NA resulted in a series of reports for Hawai‘i state leaders and the early childhood sector that supported more informed decision-making and improved coordination in Hawai‘i’s MDS. The 2020 NA also enabled Hawai‘i to increase stakeholder engagement through in-depth interviews and focus groups statewide that incorporated family, provider, and agency voices in identifying needs and recommendations for systems-change. However, the 2020 NA was completed just months before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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