Partners

Our work is divided into two phases, each centered around important milestones for children’s development.

• Phase One: Prenatal – Age 3
• Phase Two: Ages 3-8

Each year, approximately 6,000 children are born in Guilford County. We want all children born in Guilford County starting in 2023 to receive the support and resources they and their families need for healthy child development, enter kindergarten on track, and be successful by third grade. With community partners we are building a cradle-to-career continuum.

The Ages 3-5 Design work brings national, state, and community-level expertise to the strategy design process. Workgroups are using data to identify areas of strength and areas of opportunity to develop community-level strategies to meet the needs of Guilford County children and families. Leaders from the Guilford Parent Leader Network are members of the workgroups to ensure family voices and equity strategies are integrated throughout the process.

Our Community Alignment team works with agencies, organizations, and people to impact system-level change. Our goal is to improve the accuracy and efficiency of providers in connecting families with young children with the right service, at the right time, in the right amount. Using feedback loops, our team ensures providers have access to contact and capacity information for community providers. We also actively work to identify service gaps and collaborate with partners to help address those needs.

This team-based process collects, analyzes, and uses data to improve service quality on a continuous basis. This data helps identify efficiency, effectiveness, performance, and outcomes to provide the resources our community needs. We are identifying partnerships to engage family voices in the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) process.