Pomona
Early Childhood Ecosystems Transformation Accelerator Social Impact Lab
Partnering with communities to understand and transform the early childhood ecosystem so that all children can thrive.
While most interventions focus on incremental changes to the early childhood service system, the Early Childhood Ecosystems Transformation Accelerator Social Impact Lab in Pomona, CA takes a fundamentally different approach—transforming the entire ecosystem.
How do we reimagine how we partner with communities?
What is our role as we work outside of our institution? How can we best support the change makers, leaders and visionaries that work everyday to better their city? How do we ensure that data is rooted in lived experience? Questions like these guide our work. We know that sustainable change requires a deep understanding and a multi-pronged approach. Through deep engagement with all aspects of the ecosystem, we better understand, get to learn together, and co-create and co-design strategies to ensure that all children can thrive.
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Understanding the Ecosystem
How We Engage![Illustration of a network diagram that shows the complexity of the ecosystem](/sites/g/files/oketem441/files/styles/3_2_480x320/public/media/images/ecosystem_mapping.png.webp?itok=CTgLgnuO)
Learning Together
How We Learn![Photograph of a woman putting stickers up on a glass window.](/sites/g/files/oketem441/files/styles/3_2_480x320/public/media/images/Engagement.jpg.webp?itok=QA3vFqM4)
Transforming the Ecosystem
How We TransformLab Leadership
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![Portrait of Life Course Translational Research Network Program Manager, Chandler Beck, MPH, standing on the beach in California with blue skies, palm trees in the background, and Chandler in the foreground.](/sites/g/files/oketem441/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/lct-rn_program_manager_chandler_beck_mph.jpg?h=db45ff7f&itok=bGmhJzoQ)
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Graduate Student Researchers
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![A headshot of graduate student researcher, Shiraz de Vreede](/sites/g/files/oketem441/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/shiraz_bio.jpg?h=ff86ab07&itok=i5SvW-n8)
![A headshot of graduate student researcher, Veronica Lopez](/sites/g/files/oketem441/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/veronica_lopez2.jpg?h=7002cf36&itok=54BzGDG9)
News from Pomona
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Pomona at a Glance: New Strategies to Drive Change and Increase Partnership
Learn more about our new techniques to engage and partner with communities to better understand the ecosystem.