“Now more than ever, data are essential to helping policymakers and administrators understand the needs in their states, including helping families access services.” – Child Trends
Overview
As the primary advisor to Vermont’s Governor and the Legislature on the well-being of children and families prenatal to age eight, Building Bright Futures (BBF) has a vast portfolio of data and monitoring efforts, as required by state and federal statute. BBF is charged with a broad range of data and monitoring efforts that serve as the basis for data-driven policy recommendations and advisement to Vermont’s Governor, Administration, and Legislature on the well-being of children and families from the prenatal period to age 8. The initiatives below are some of the ways in which the BBF Network fulfills these mandates with a commitment to continuous quality improvement.
Initiatives
- Continuous Identification of Needs
- Monitoring Act 76: Vermont’s Child Care Law
- Monitoring and Evaluating the Early Childhood System (VECAP)
- Evaluating the Vermont Integration Project: Building Integration in Vermont’s Birth-5 Early Childhood Systems
- Data Development Agenda
- Data Governance Council
- Data Integration and Alignment Efforts
- Data and Evaluation Committee
- Interdisciplinary Research Consortium
- Data Consultation and Technical Assistance to State Agencies
Dissemination Mechanisms
- State of Vermont’s Children Year in Review Reports
- Early Childhood Data Portal
- Early Childhood Grand Rounds Seminars
- Data Briefs, Reports, & Assessments