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1. A project of the Early Care and Education
Committee,
Early Childhood Utah
Department of Health – Bureau of Child
Development

2. Governor’s State
Early Childhood
Advisory Council on
Comprehensive
Early Care and
Systems State Team
Education
Early Childhood Utah

4.  Access to Health Care and Medical Homes
 Early Care and Education
 Parenting Education and Family Support
 Social-Emotional Development and Mental Health

5.  Programs that support children’s early learning
and development.
 Early Childhood Learning Standards.
 The Utah Early Childhood Statewide Data
Integration Project.

6.  Early childhood programs
are funded and
administered separately.
 Data from each program is
maintained independently.
 Utah cannot track long term
outcomes for children; and
 Utah cannot obtain an
unduplicated count of
children receiving early
childhood services.

7.  Utah Department of Health: Baby Watch Early
Intervention Program; Office of Home Visiting; Early
Childhood Comprehensive Systems Initiative; State
Advisory Council on Early Care & Education
 Utah Department of Workforce Services: Office of
Child Care; Head Start State Collaboration Office
 Utah State Office of Education: Title I and Special
Education Preschool
 Utah Department of Human Services: Division of Child
& Family Services
 Local Head Start Programs
 The Utah Data Alliance
 The United Way
 Help Me Grow

8.  Mission:
The mission of the Utah Early Childhood
Statewide Data Integration Project (ECDIP) is
to facilitate data sharing and coordination
among early childhood programs in Utah.

9.  Are children birth to age 5 on track to succeed
when they enter school?

10.  Which children and families are and are not
being served by which programs and services?

11.  What characteristics of programs are associated
with positive outcomes for which children?

12.  What are the education and economic returns
on early childhood investments?

13.  How are data being used now and how will
data be used in the future to inform policy and
resource decisions?

14. UDOH UDA / UEN
EHDI
Post-
secondary
Immun.
Reg.
K-12 Workforce
EI Part-C
VS -Birth
Records
Child
Care
ECDS UDADS
Head
Start
EI Part-B
Foster
Care
OHV
Title 1
Preschool Early-Childhood Researchers Education Researchers

15. UDOH UDA / UEN
EHDI
Post-
secondary
Immun.
Reg.
K-12 Workforce
EI Part-C
VS -Birth
Records
Child
Care CHARM
ECDS UDADS
Head
Start
EI Part-B
Foster
Care
OHV
Title 1
Preschool Early-Childhood Researchers Education Researchers

16.  Charm does not store any data.
The data will be stored in the
Early Childhood Data System.
 Charm will assign the unique
identifier.
 Charm has a sophisticated
record matching program.
 Charm has proven “data
bridge” capabilities.
 Several programs are already
using the Charm system.

17.  The ECDS is being developed
by Multimedia Data Services
Corporation (MDSC).
 Data will be encrypted both
during transit and at rest.
 Data suppliers and
researchers will NOT have
access to direct identifiers.
 UDOH will apply
appropriate disclosure
avoidance techniques for all
direct and indirect identifiers.

18.  Data will be sent from the
Early Childhood Data System
to the Utah Data Alliance Data
Warehouse annually.
 Only data for school-age
children will be pushed.
 The Utah Data Alliance Data
Warehouse will store de-
identified early childhood, K-
12, post-secondary, and
workforce data.

19.  An unique identifier will be assigned to a
single child across multiple early childhood
programs and services.

20.  The unique identifier will allow de-identified
children’s educational progress and outcomes
to be tracked through early childhood and once
the child enters the public school system.

21.  The Early Childhood Data System and the
Utah Data Alliance Data Warehouse will store
de-identified longitudinal information for
analysis and research purposes.

22.  Colleen Murphy
 Early Childhood Interagency
Coordinator
 44 N. Mario Capechhi Dr.
 Salt Lake City, UT 84114
 801-883-4679