Our Promise

We take our mission seriously and recognize the sensitivity around the data we integrate and place in reports. Accordingly, NC ECIDS fully commits to the following "wills" and "will nots".

NC ECIDS will...

• Integrate data in order to answer key program and policy questions
• Provide counts of children who receive multiple early childhood services
• Produce aggregate reports for common program & policy questions
• Provide data elements for approved research requests
• Include only children who are receiving services from participating programs (not every child in NC)

NC ECIDS will not...

• Evaluate or track individual children, teacher, centers or schools
• Release names, SSN, addresses, pictures or client children and parents
• Give access to data without a thorough review of each request or without a clear and demonstratable need-to-know
• Allow use of data without strict guidelines and terms in place for the proper handling of and disposal of data

Our Goal

We believe early childhood integrated data will lead to:

Better insight

into how early childhood services are utilized across NC

Better answers

to key early childhood policy and program questions

Better decisions

regarding use and refinement of early childhood programs

Better outcomes

for the children and families of North Carolina