1. Smart Start Outcomes (Version 2)
Improved ECE program quality
Improved environment
Improved teacher/child interaction
Decrease in teacher and/or director turnover
Increase in practice of healthy behaviors
Nutrition and physical activity
Healthy environment
Improved teacher knowledge
Child development/early intervention
Teaching strategies
Health
More children on track for normal and/or enhanced development
Enhanced
kindergarten
Readiness
Higher 3rd
grade
test scores
Children increase use of services
Early intervention
Medical/dental home
Increase in developmental screenings/child assessment
Increase referrals of children to services
Increase in positive parenting practices
Decrease in challenging child behavior/Increase in child’s social competence
Parents increase use of services
Increase in parent’s social support
Increase in parent and child shared reading/daily reading