Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has made the design, implementation and sustainable funding of a statewide system of early childhood programs and services a top priority for his administration. 

ECCBC is working in concert with several statewide initiatives, including the

Governor's P-20 Education Coordinating Council 
(in particular the P-3 subcommittee)

 Lieutenant Governor's Early Childhood Advisory Council

The Early Childhood Councils Leadership Alliance

SmartStart Colorado and

The Early Childhood State Systems Team

Early childhood systems building efforts are gaining momentum nationwide as more and more legislators, policymakers and the general public come to the realization that the earlier in a child's life that attention is paid to early literacy, cognition, language development, physical well-being and motor development, social and emotional development, parent engagement, the fewer public and private resources are required later on in a child's life.