Welcome to EDSI and TECCS
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The Early Developmental Screening and Intervention (EDSI) project is a strategic partnership supported by First 5 LA to improve early identification and promote healthy development of young children in Los Angeles County. EDSI takes an improvement approach to find sustainable and scalable changes that will produce a reliable, robust, results-oriented system. The project aim is to build systems that provide reliable and effective systems for prevention, health promotion and recognition and response to developmental concerns in children ages 0-5 years.
| The Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems (TECCS)initiative seeks to improve community conditions for young children by using regular measurement of developmental progress at a population level and to guide the ongoing development of community systems for children. TECCS is a collaborative effort of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, United Way Worldwide and the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. TECCS introduces the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a measure of how young children are developing. The EDI covers five important areas of child development that are good predictors of adult health, education and social outcomes.
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