THE UTAH EARLY CHILDHOOD STATEWIDE

DATA INTEGRATION PROJECTA project of the Early Care and Education

Committee, Early Childhood Utah

Department of Health – Bureau of Child Development

Governor’s State Advisory Council on Early Care and

Education

Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems State

Team

Early Childhood Utah

The goal of Early Childhood Utah is to support

Utah parents in their efforts to ensure that their children enter school healthy and ready to learn.

Early Childhood Utah Supports Communities As They Build and Integrate Early Childhood Cross-Service Systems In The Following Areas:

Access to Health Care and Medical Homes Early Care and Education Parenting Education and Family Support Social-Emotional Development and Mental Health

Early Care and Education Committee Efforts:

Programs that support children’s early learning and development.

Early Childhood Learning Standards. The Utah Early Childhood Statewide Data

Integration Project.

Early Childhood Challenges:

Early childhood programs are funded and administered separately.

Data from each program is maintained independently.

Utah cannot track long term outcomes for children; and

Utah cannot obtain an unduplicated count of children receiving early childhood services.

Participating Programs:

Utah Department of Health: Baby Watch Early Intervention Program; Office of Home Visiting; Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative; State Advisory Council on Early Care & Education

Utah Department of Workforce Services: Office of Child Care; Head Start State Collaboration Office

Utah State Office of Education: Title I and Special Education Preschool

Utah Department of Human Services: Division of Child & Family Services

Local Head Start Programs The Utah Data Alliance The United Way Help Me Grow

The Utah Early Childhood Statewide Data Integration

Project

Mission: The mission of the Utah Early Childhood

Statewide Data Integration Project (ECDIP) is to facilitate data sharing and coordination among early childhood programs in Utah.

The data integration project will facilitate the use of data to address five broad policy

questions:

Are children birth to age 5 on track to succeed when they enter school?

The data integration project will facilitate the use of data to address five broad policy

questions: Which children and families are and are

not being served by which programs and services?

The data integration project will facilitate the

use of data to address five broad policy questions:

What characteristics of programs are associated with positive outcomes for which children?

The data integration project will facilitate the use of data to address five broad policy

questions:

What are the education and economic returns on early childhood investments?

The data integration project will facilitate the

use of data to address five broad policy questions:

How are data being used now and how will data be used in the future to inform policy and resource decisions?

The Big Picture

EHDI

Immun. Reg.

EI Part-C

VS -Birth Records

Child Care

Head Start

EI Part-B

Foster Care

OHV

Title 1 Preschoo

l

ECDS UDADS

K-12

Post-secondar

y

Workforce

Early-Childhood Researchers Education Researchers

UDOH UDA / UEN

Technical Approach: Overview

EHDI

Immun. Reg.

EI Part-C

VS -Birth Records

Child Care

Head Start

EI Part-B

Foster Care

OHV

Title 1 Preschoo

l

ECDS UDADS

K-12

Post-secondar

y

Workforce

Early-Childhood Researchers Education Researchers

UDOH UDA / UEN

CHARM

CHARM:

Charm does not store any data. The data will be stored in the Early Childhood Data System.

Charm will assign the unique identifier.

Charm has a sophisticated record matching program.

Charm has proven “data bridge” capabilities.

Several programs are already using the Charm system.

Early Childhood Data System

The ECDS is being developed by Multimedia Data Services Corporation (MDSC).

Data will be encrypted both during transit and at rest.

Data suppliers and researchers will NOT have access to direct identifiers.

UDOH will apply appropriate disclosure avoidance techniques for all direct and indirect identifiers.

The Utah Data Alliance Data will be sent from the

Early Childhood Data System to the Utah Data Alliance Data Warehouse annually.

Only data for school-age children will be pushed.

The Utah Data Alliance Data Warehouse will store de-identified early childhood, K-12, post-secondary, and workforce data.

Early Childhood Solutions:

An unique identifier will be assigned to a single child across multiple early childhood programs and services.

Early Childhood Solutions:

The unique identifier will allow de-identified children’s educational progress and outcomes to be tracked through early childhood and once the child enters the public school system.

Early Childhood Solutions:

The Early Childhood Data System and the Utah Data Alliance Data Warehouse will store de-identified longitudinal information for analysis and research purposes.

For More Information Contact:

Colleen Murphy Early Childhood Interagency

Coordinator 44 N. Mario Capechhi Dr. Salt Lake City, UT 84114 801-883-4679