Colorado's Early Childhood Systems Building Inventory includes recommendations and best practices, compiled, gleaned, or otherwise distilled from the early childhood (EC) systems work that has been in progress in Colorado for the last 12 years; much of it residing in Colorado's Early Childhood Councils (EC Councils).

Colorado's Early Childhood (EC) Councils were established in 2007 through State legislation (HB07-1062) as a network of community-based collaboratives that can help to build a "comprehensive system of early childhood councils to increase and sustain the availability, accessibility, capacity, and quality of early childhood services throughout the state." Research has demonstrated the value of high quality early childhood care and education in preparing...