Welcome to the NCCP Pathways Project and Tools

The Pathways to Early School Success: Building Local Capacity project (also known as Pathways) is designed to help community-based early childhood coalitions support young children and their families, so that children get off to a strong start in school that will help them succeed in the early grades and beyond. To accomplish this, the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) Pathways Team works with early childhood coalitions on community outreach and strategic planning. We focus on strategic planning in the areas of health and mental health, early childhood care and education, and family support. Findings from this project will be used to inform the development and refinement of a set of analytic tools that can be used by community-based early childhood coalitions to update and successfully implement their strategic plans. Participating coalitions will contribute to the project by completing the tools and assessments of tools.

To date, we have conducted a pilot study in Virginia and collaborated with coalitions to implement the project in communities in New York, Kansas, Minnesota, Colorado, California, and Oregon.

All-America City Award Applicants: To obtain log-in credentials, email pathways@nccp.org with your name, city and state, title, and organizational affiliation. Thank you.

Pathways was funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.