Resources: Transforming Early Childhood Ecosystems

Presentation on Monday, September 23, 2024

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By Neal Halfon
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Below are resources from Center Director, Dr. Neal Halfon's presentation, "Transforming Early Childhood Ecosystems" at UC Berkeley on Monday, September 23, 2024.

Equity from the Start Report 

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This new report from the Data Informed Futures team outlines how staff and faculty at the Center partner with communities to adopt and implement the Whole Child Equity Measurement and Learning System comprised of the Childhood Equity Questionnaire, Early Development Instrument, Middle Years Development Instrument, and the National Neighborhood Equity Index. 

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Data Informed Futures

An initiative of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities, Data Informed Futures (previously TECCS) offers unique, neighborhood-level data and mapping – throughout the course of a child’s life – that reveal geographic patterns of disparity and resilience. Since 2012, Data Informed Futures has helped over 90 different local communities in more than 18 states.

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Publications

  • Block EP, Zimmerman FJ, Aguilar E, Stanley L, Halfon N. Early Child Development, Residential Crowding, and Commute Time in 8 US States, 2010–2017. Am J Public Health. 2018;108(11):1550-1557. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304680 
  • Perrigo JL, Stanley L, Mixson LS, et al. Examining holistic developmental strengths and needs of multilingual kindergartners using the Early Development Instrument. International Journal of Educational Research Open. 2024;6:100315. doi:10.1016/j.ijedro.2023.100315 
  • Perrigo JL, Block EP, Aguilar E, Beck C, Halfon N. Income is not an equalizer: health development inequities by ethnoracial backgrounds in California kindergartners. BMC Public Health. 2023;23(1):2474. doi:10.1186/s12889-023-17246-7 
  • Halfon N, Aguilar E, Stanley L, Hotez E, Block E, Janus M. Measuring Equity From The Start: Disparities In The Health Development Of US Kindergartners. Health Affairs. 2020;39(10):1702-1709. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00920 
  • Duncan RJ, Duncan GJ, Stanley L, Aguilar E, Halfon N. The kindergarten Early Development Instrument predicts third grade academic proficiency. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 2020;53:287-300. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.05.009 
  • aguilar efren, Perrigo JL, Pereira N, Russ SA, Bader JL, Halfon N. Unveiling early childhood health inequities by age five through the national neighborhood equity index and the early development instrument. SSM - Population Health. 2024;25:101553. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101553 
  • Hotez, E., Perrigo, J. L., Bigsby, M., Mixson, L. S., Stanley, L., and Halfon, N. (2024). A descriptive study of well-being and assets in middle childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Los Angeles County school district. Child Indicators Research, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10098-y