“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