DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

The Center for Child Health Policy and Advocacy at Texas Children’s Hospital (PACT), a collaboration between the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics at Texas Children’s Hospital and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), delivers an innovative, multi-disciplinary, and solutions-oriented approach to child health in a vastly evolving health care system and market place. PACT is focused on serving as a catalyst to impact legislative and regulatory action on behalf of vulnerable children at local, state, and national levels. This white paper is written for the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF), which aims to transform the people, institutions, and places in Texas to create healthy communities. Early childhood development is listed as one of EHF’s seven strategies to enhance community health through positive interventions with long-term impacts.