Arizona Early Education Funds (AEEF) were established as a public/private partnership to help communities across Arizona build the quality and capacity of early care and education programs for children birth to age five. To begin to change outcomes for young children and their families and ensure that every child in Arizona starts school ready to succeed, one of AEEF’s funding strategies involved Regional Partnership Development. In order to overcome the vast fragmentation of the early care and education system, AEEF committed to investing resources that would require regions to work together to stimulate collaboration. The resulting Regional Partnerships were established on the principle of local implementation and state accountability. A larger goal of funding a network of AEEF’s Regional Partnerships was to help build the infrastructure necessary to disseminate First Things First funds. To help ensure success, local communities and Regional Partnerships were supported by a state level entity that provided professional development, technical assistance, accountability and resources.
The broad goal of this evaluation is to document the process of AEEF Technical Assistance so that we can build the capacity for more statewide technical assistance and community partnership-building.
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