Early Care & Education Systems Activities

• Empower Policy. Support Empower policy change at ECE, regional, and/or state levels.
• Learning Collaboratives. Participate in learning collaboratives, coalitions, and councils to build communities of practice.
• Staff Development. Assist a program or facility to increase staff knowledge, abilities, skills, and improve practice.
• ECE-Based Agriculture. Train partners to implement and sustain gardens and/or support local food procurement and implementation.
• Nutrition & Feeding Practices. Support improvements in ECE nutrition practices & environments consistent with Empower Standards, including breastfeeding.
• Physical Activity Environment. Support improvements in ECE physical activity environments & practices consistent with Empower Standards (e.g., painted playgrounds).
• Community Coordination. Support ECEs to increase programs & resources that meet an identified need (e.g., food security resources - SNAP Outreach, backpack programs, food pantries).
• Community Engagement. Engage residents in SNAP-Ed eligible communities in the process and planning using consulting, involving and collaborating techniques.

Evaluation of Early Care & Education Systems

SEEDS. Every year, LIAs report their ECE Systems activities using the SNAP-Ed Electronic Data System (SEEDS). This helps us to understand what LIAs do to support ECE Systems.

SARN. LIAs also complete Semi-Annual Report Narrative (SARN) each year, describing their work using words and images. This helps us to understand how and why LIAs’ ECE Systems programs work the way they do.

Go NAPSACC. Go NAPSACC is a six-step improvement process to help ECE providers make PSE changes. A “pre” assessment is completed during Step 1, and a “post” assessment is completed during Step 5. LIAs help ECE providers choose from six Go NAPSACC topics and then support the completion of the associated assessments.

If you are looking for evaluation training and their certification quizzes, proceed to the Trainings page.