NCPC is committed to advancing a high-quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system. To create this system, it is critical that high-quality data is collected for the state and that Smart Start Local Partnerships are using this data to support their decision-making.
To ensure insights are based on up-to-date metrics, Smart Start launched Smart Start Community Indicators, a data dashboard. The dashboard contains insights and visualizations to support planning and decision making for county-level investments. It provides data on critical early childhood indicators at the county, local partnership, and census-tract level. Indicators include population level, child abuse incidence, infant mortality, and teen birth incidence. By utilizing this data, local partnerships can better plan and make decisions for their community as well as examine opportunities of unfairness, especially regarding resources, that may exist with their community and specific metrics.
