1. Early Learning & Vroom in Oregon

2. Oregon’s Early Learning Hubs: A Community-Based Approach In 2013, the Oregon Legislature passed a statute authorizing the state’s Early Learning Council to create 16 regional and community-based Early Learning Hubs to make relevant services more available, accessible and effective for children and families, particularly those who are historically underserved. Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, and Iowa all use a “regional council” model similar to the Early Learning Hub model.

3. Oregon’s Early Learning Hubs: The Collective Impact Model The Early Learning Hubs use a “collective impact” model in which all of the sectors that touch early childhood education – health care, early childhood educators, human and social services, K-12 school districts, and the private sector – have a common place to focus their efforts, resources, data, and strategies with a shared purpose:

4. Oregon’s Early Learning Hubs: Strategic Outcomes The Early Learning Hubs use a “collective impact” model in which all of the sectors that touch early childhood education – health care, early childhood educators, human and social services, K-12 school districts, and the private sector – have a common place to focus their efforts, resources, data, and strategies with a shared purpose: Children ready for kindergarten. Children raised in stable and attached families. Systems that are integrated and aligned into one early learning system.

5. Vroom Pilot Sites: Empowering Communities

6. Vroom in Oregon: Who Are the Sites? Currently, there are 24 pilot sites in Oregon promoting Vroom in their communities. These include Early Learning Hubs, Head Start programs, tribal groups, and other organizations.

7. Vroom in Oregon: Sustainability Currently, there are 24 pilot sites in Oregon promoting Vroom in their communities. These include Early Learning Hubs, Head Start programs, tribal groups, and other organizations. Using federal Race to the Top grant funds, these pilot sites are provided the necessary resources—including materials and trainings—to successfully implement Vroom as a sustainable part of their early learning efforts moving forward.

8. Vroom in Oregon: Local Partnerships Currently, there are 24 pilot sites in Oregon promoting Vroom in their communities. These include Early Learning Hubs, Head Start programs, tribal groups, and other organizations. Using federal Race to the Top grant funds, these pilot sites are provided the necessary resources—including materials and trainings—to successfully implement Vroom as a sustainable part of their early learning efforts moving forward. While the State of Oregon is the grantor, evaluator, and coordinating entity for these sites, it is the sites themselves that are driving the Vroom efforts in their communities and promoting the program through local partnerships.

9. Vroom Partnerships: Local & Statewide

10. Relief Nursery Head Start Healthy Families WIC EI/ECSE Parenting Class Family Resource Center (Bend, OR): Local Partnerships

11. Family Resource Center (Bend, OR): Museum Case Study

12. Early Learning Division: Statewide and Regional Partnerships

13. Sustaining Vroom in Oregon Thanks to the statewide partnerships created by the Early Learning Division and the local partnerships created by the Vroom pilot sites, Vroom will continue to be implemented in Oregon long after the State’s federal grant funding ends. It is through community empowerment and inter- agency collaboration that Vroom will be sustained in Oregon.