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Early Childhood Services
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Building Bright Futures Early Childhood Services (BBF ECS) will enable parents to be their child's first effective teacher through home visitation services in the first 12 month period. BBF ECS will promote every child's healthy growthn and development through comprehensive health care and provide effective early learning through high quality early care and education programs. All domains of development - physical, social-emotional and intellectual - will be promoted. All networks of support will be coordinated and integrated to achieve maximum effectiveness, minimize unnecessary duplication and prevent children and families from falling through the cracks.
BBF ECS will be composed of a comprehensive, integrated system of early health and family support services, early childhood education supports and additional resources. These components will connect through shared data and information, common assessments and reporting, as well as coordinated care and referral.
Program Update: BBF Early Childhood Services (BBF ECS) is composed of a comprehensive integrated system of early health and family support services and high quality evidence-based early childhood education supports. All domains of development - physical, socialemotional, and intellectual - will be promoted. BBF ECS has reached agreements with 8-10 area child care providers, serving nearly 500 children predominately through Title XX, to participate in the BBF ECS Network pilot. In addition, ongoing meetings are occurring with area health and family support service providers to strategize the delivery of services to a targeted 1,000 parenting or pregnant teens and their children, and to connect the 3,500 children born at-risk to appropriate community resources.
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Healthy Futures Initiative
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To combat the health disparities faced by many students, BBF is committed to implementing the Healthy Futures Initiative alongside our partners within school districts and the health provider community. The cornerstone of the BBF Healthy Futures Initiative is the Coordinated School Health Centers (CSHC); opening for operation this fall. The Coordinated School Health Center is an example of a school-based health center that provides on-site care for acute and chronic health conditions of the school-aged child. Partnerships are created between the school and community health providers to promote the health and educational success of children and adolescents.
In addition to addressing the physical and mental health needs of the child, BBF has worked to improve the health literacy among our youth. An age-appropriate, health education curriculum that focuses on acquiring skills and building a broader base of knowledge, further defining healthy living will help our youth move towards productive and healthy life choices. Through a partnership formed between BBF, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, and the school districts of Douglas and Sarpy counties, BBF will be able to provide HealthTeacher; a web-based educational resource that works to improve health-related knowledge and skills.
Program Update: Healthy Futures will give students access to quality health care and an effective health curriculum that are essential elements for academic success. Children’s Hospital and Medical Center recently convened the Coordinated School Health Centers Committee. The Committee is made up of physicians and health care administrators from throughout the community and is working with Building Bright Futures to develop a framework for Coordinated School Health Centers. Building Bright Futures is partnering with Omaha Public Schools to create a proposal for implementing a delivery system for comprehensive PK-12 health education. Also, program representatives met with the Nebraska Department of Education to discuss data collection and sharing possibilities between NDE, Career Connections, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Labor, school districts, and the Learning Community to better support the goals of Healthy Futures and BBF.
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