ECCS-HMG Community of Practice Resources | Help Me Grow National Center

The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Health Integration Prenatal-to-Three Program (ECCS) from Health Resources & Services Administration Maternal & Child Health Bureau (HRSA MCHB) aims to help states to build integrated maternal and early childhood systems of care that are equitable, sustainable, comprehensive, and inclusive of the health system, and that promote early developmental health and family well-being and increase family-centered access to care and engagement of the prenatal-to-3 (P–3) population.

The Help Me Grow National Center is convening a new Community of Practice (CoP) to support Help Me Grow (HMG) affiliate state leads and their collaborative partners in the creation of compelling state-level applications for the HRSA Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) Health Integration Prenatal-to-Three Program funding opportunity (HRSA-21-078), due 3/15/2021.

This CoP will be led by Kimberly Martini-Carvell, Executive Director of the HMG National Center and Lynn Pullano, HMG National Implementation Expert.

More Information on ECCS

The goals for the ECCS program are to:

1) Increase state-level infrastructure and capacity to develop and/or strengthen statewide maternal and early childhood systems of care;
2) Increase coordination and alignment between maternal and child health (MCH) and other statewide systems that impact young children and families to advance a common vision for early developmental health and family well-being;
3) Increase the capacity of health systems to deliver and effectively connect families to a continuum of services that promote early developmental health and family well-being, beginning prenatally;
4) Identify and implement policy and financing strategies that support the funding and sustainability of multigenerational, preventive services and systems for the P–3 population; and
5) Increase state-level capacity to advance equitable and improved access to services for underserved P–3 populations.

Announcement Number: HRSA-21-078
Date(s) to Apply: 12/11/2020 to 03/15/2021
Award Date: 08/01/2021