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Washington State Early Learning Coordination Plan

May.2026 Newsletter

Check out what’s happening and how to get involved in the Network!
Washington State Early Learning Coordination Plan | ELCPWA.ORG

 

Core Team - Network Chartering and Sustainability Planning

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The Athena Group has been supporting Network teams in the development of their individual team charters and is now moving into the next phase of work: finalizing the Whole Network Charter and developing a Project Management Sustainability Plan. This work is focused on strengthening alignment across teams, clarifying shared priorities and structures, and supporting long-term sustainability for the network moving forward.

In addition, The Athena Group has developed recommendations to support updates to the ELCP document and will continue exploring opportunities for how the plan can be activated and utilized in practice. This includes identifying actionable pathways, implementation considerations, and opportunities to strengthen how the plan supports ongoing collaboration, coordination, and community-informed work across the network.

See the Core Minutes & Agendas for more information

 

Evaluation Team

The ELCP action team is conducting evaluation of the ELCP network health to capture stories of significant change that may have resulted from engagement with the ELCP. We are collecting stories and information in brief (20-30 minute) interviews that will help us explore what we have achieved already, understand what people value, and identify areas of needed support. We are not including any direct names unless you request otherwise. If you have already completed an interview - thank you! If you have not, please watch out for an email from Katie Kuhl (katie.kuhl@dcyf.wa.gov) and thank you in advance for your participation in the process!

 

Communications Team

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The Communications team has been working hard to update our website, clarify our audience, and develop our newsletter content. We hope you like the new look! The ELCP Communications Team looks forward to sending out the next newsletters in July and September. Stay Tuned.

See Communications Minutes & Agenda for more information

 

Office Hours Creates New Space for Collaboration

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DCYF Staff support Lillian Ferraz started the open office hours every Wednesday from 4-5pm in March. Since then several new members have joined and had an open space to discuss ideas, bring questions, and get caught up on ELCP Network happenings they have missed. We invite all new and returning ELCP Network members to drop in on Wednesday afternoons to chat all things ELCP.

 

Racial Equity Trainings

Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council is providing racial equity trainings to ELCP network members intended to "lead and facilitate the co-design of policy and system solutions with communities affected by them,” the curriculum has focused on centering community voice through a culture of belonging, shared accountability and governance, and applied learning using data-driven, community-centered practices. Resources from the February, March, and April sessions can be found in the RESJ Resource Hub.

From TCD&IC
Our next workshop, Dismantling Systemic Inequities, will be hosted on Zoom from 1pm–3pm on 5/28/26. While the session will continue building on the planned curriculum, we also want to use part of the time as a discovery and listening space to better understand what care holders, nonprofit partners, and program staff need to feel supported in this learning environment.

We encourage those joining us on May 28 to spend some time thinking about what support, resources, or learning approaches would help them feel more equipped and engaged in this space, and to be prepared to share during the session. If little or no feedback is shared during the discovery portion of the training, we will proceed with the workshop as designed.

We look forward to seeing you there and continuing this learning journey together. 

Community Centered Policy Design

June 11, 1-3pm: Register

An action learning workshop to operationalize and apply a community centered equity lens to data driven policy design and analysis. 

Power Mapping and Racial Impact Analysis

July 11, 1-3pm: Join on Zoom
An action learning workshop to learn how to map power and analyze racial impact through clear governance, measurement, and accountability. 


 

Summer Convening Reflections

The Convening just took place on May 20th, and focused on discussing Where We Are with the Evaluation team and their analysis using the Most Significant Change interview method. We reflected on themes in our groups, and information will be used to craft an analysis for Evaluation and Core teams to review. 

In the second segment, we looked at Where We’re Going and dove into building a sustainability plan with the Athena Group. You’ll see the results of these facilitations at our next Core meetings. Thank you so much for joining us! 

Our next Convening will be Sept 10th, hybrid, held in person at South Puget Sound Technical College. Signups will be in our next newsletter.


 
Washington State Early Learning Coordination Plan

ELCP Network
1500 Jefferson St SE
Olympia, WA, 98501
United States

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