AUTHORITY
Project Child is the Early Childhood Coordinating Committee (ECCC) established in the by-laws of the Logan County Family & Children First Council (FCFC). Per Ohio Department of Health Policy, revised October 2006, the ECCC assists the FCFC in the design, coordination and implementation of a comprehensive, coordinated, interdisciplinary, family-centered system of services for families with an infant or toddler at risk for or with developmental disabilities/delays.
MISSION
To enhance the well-being of young children and their families in Logan County by bringing together programs, people, and organizations to develop a shared response to create positive outcomes for young children and to coordinate services, systems, and resources so that young children and their families succeed.
GOALS
1. Coordinating Services and Systems for children under age 6
- Conducting Child Find
- Providing Service Coordination & Programs (Education, Outreach, and Support)
2. Creating Community Change-Accountability for the well being of children under age 6
- Ensuring Safe Beginnings for Logan County’s newborns
- Ensuring Children are Ready for School
3. Building Capacity for community change
VALUES
- Family voice: Families desire to do what is best for their children; there is value in listening to understand barriers and needs.
- Collaboration: Partnerships allow us to do more with less and have a stronger force than we could act alone.
- Cultural Competency: There is value in understanding what environment someone learned from and how that influences their life; knowledge is empowering and can positively affect change.
- Strengths-based: Energy for change is generated when we see good and not bad.
- Persistence: When things are hard, we continue the course of what is the right thing to do.
- Outcome Based: Decisions are guided by data and experience.
- Shared Responsibility: The entire community is responsible to help parents raise healthy children and the collaborative provides a venue for this shared work.
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS
Committee meetings are held monthly on the second Monday of the month from 9:30-11am at the Discovery Center (1973 State Route 47 W., Bellefontaine, OH 43311).
- The full membership will meet together on the odd numbered months (January, March, May, July, September, & November).
- The Sub-committees will meet together on the even numbered months (February, April, June, August, October, & December).
