We support prenatal to five systems change through engagements focused on Systems Implementation & Quality Improvement and Policy & Advocacy Strategy.
Our consultants are specialists in how to align policies, programs, and funding to create comprehensive, mixed delivery systems with a continuum of effective programs and services that meet the unique needs of children, their families, and those who serve them.
The Start Early team has insight and deep expertise in key early childhood sectors at the federal, state, and community level:
From CCDF funding and policy to quality frameworks and professional learning – we help government leaders and advocates improve families’ experiences by increasing access and designing more inclusive and navigable systems.
From Start Early’s ground-breaking Partnership for Pre-K Improvement, our team brings states and communities research-based tools and expertise to implement sustainable, mixed delivery Pre-K system infrastructure – policy, data, funding, monitoring and professional learning.
We combine decades of policy and advocacy expertise to help leaders understand how to create more equitable and inclusive systems serving children with disabilities and developmental delays and their families.
Our vast experience in home visiting program delivery, supporting the workforce, and advocacy and policy helps systems align funding and sectors (MIECHV, Early Head Start/Head Start, public health, etc.), to increase access to high-quality, seamless, and supportive family experiences.
With both federal and grantee expertise, we uniquely understand Head Start’s central role in positive child outcomes and how to integrate its standards, community assets, and funding into local and state systems.
Our uncommon first-hand experience helps states and communities build navigable systems that center families, increase equitable access to programs and services, and align systems across sectors to create a prenatal to five continuum of care. Why? Because we’ve done it ourselves.
Our consultants have decades of policy experience working at the local, state, and federal levels.
We have built and run exemplary programs ourselves – from Head Start to doula services.
We are seasoned and respected early childhood advocates in our home states and nationally.
We are skilled at weaving together funding streams and policies across sectors to build a continuum of supports for families.
