Public Awareness

As part of ECPAC’s core business to enhance the early childhood system in Adams County, ECPAC supports common messaging to raise awareness about the importance of the early childhood years.

To this end, using the results of the Early Childhood Leadership Commission Communication Study, ECPAC works to reduce “communication noise, increase the quality of messaging, and provide greater emphasis on the two-way responsive engagement.”

• Provides messages and materials for all community providers and families to use
• Works closely with community experts including service providers and families in the development of materials and messages
• Trains “trusted messengers” in using developed materials
  • Online Provider Parent Messaging Webinar Recording:
  • Required Survey
  • Communications Training Power Point

Once you have taken the training – please feel free to complete the ECPAC Materials Order Form for access to the materials for families.

As a part of our Child Maltreatment Prevention work, ECPAC is working to shift social norms related to help-seeking and the importance of social connections. All families need support – whether that’s a local resource, public benefits, or help from a friend or family member. The following are some of the messages created through the Child Maltreatment Prevention Action Team in hopes of decreasing stigma, increasing help-seeking behaviors, and promoting the the importance of caring relationships and the Strengthening Families 5 Protective Factors.

ECPAC also works to increase public will to increase investment and commitment to early childhood. We use Colorado’s Early Childhood Shared Message Bank and encourage partners to to the same.

ECPAC also relies on other known best practice messages and materials including:

• Colorado Early Learning Developmental Guidelines
• Early Childhood Mental Health
• Zero to Three
• Frameworks
• Vroom
• Bright by Three
• Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Harvard Center for the Developing Child
• Aspen Institute