Goals and Objectives of the Early Learning Council

(a)The Council has the following as its goals:

(1)to increase supports and services for young children and their families by strengthening cross-agency coordination, involving public and private entities, to ensure delivery of comprehensive services for young children and their families; and

(2)to expand and refine Guam’s Policy Agenda for CH. 3. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES Early Learning- Birth to Eight (8).

(b)The Council has the following objectives to support these goals:

(1)to strengthen collaboration among governance entities that oversee and coordinate subsystems;

(2)to leverage funding streams to maximize resources;

(3)to develop and implement a mechanism for crossagency data collection for monitoring and reporting;

(4)to create cross-agency standards for child and family outcomes;

(5)to define professional development structures to ensure an appropriately skilled systems workforce; and

(6)to expand awareness of and access to parent education and family supports.