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Sustaining Data Linking and State Examples – Resources

• Building Trust and Powering Decisions: Utah’s Journey with an Early Childhood Integrated Data System
  (DaSy, 2026; UT)

  In this episode of the DaSy Talks podcast, hosts Howard Morrison and Jenna Nguyen sit down with Lisa Davenport and Jennifer Floyd to explore how Utah built and strengthened its Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS) by including Part C data.

• Partnering for Success: Key Elements of Effective ECIDS Data Governance (SLDS State Support Team, 2024; KS & SC)

  In this webinar, representatives from Kansas and South Carolina will share how they have worked to establish overarching goals and plans for the governance of their ECIDS.

• Garnering State Legislative Support for an ECIDS (SLDS State Support Team, 2024; NM & VA)

  This webinar spotlights how leaders from Virginia and New Mexico have worked to align the design, development, and use of their early childhood integrated data systems (ECIDSs) with state legislative priorities.

• North Carolina’s Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS) (SLDS State Support Team, 2024; NC)

  This webinar spotlights how leaders from Virginia and New Mexico have worked to align the design, development, and use of their early childhood integrated data systems (ECIDSs) with state legislative priorities.

• Including Head Start Data in an ECIDS: Navigating Source System Vendors (SLDS State Support Team, 2021; GA)

  This brief provides tips for state ECIDS project staff members when partnering with Head Start grantees to obtain data from vendors.

• Developing Data Sharing Agreements (DaSy, 2020; AZ & LA)

  This presentation at the 2020 Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference provides an overview of developing data sharing agreements, including challenges and strategies from selected states.

• Linking Part C and Part B 619 Data – What to Know Before You Go (DaSy, 2017; NC & SD)

  This presentation from the 2017 OSEP Leadership Conference discusses the steps to prepare both Part C and Part B 619 for linking data, and presents examples of two state who are in the process of linking early childhood data from C to B 619.

• Data linking between Part C and Part B 619: Start here! (DaSy, 2017; CO & SD)

  This first of three mini-webinars presented during Linking Week 2017, focused on helping state staff think through the data governance and technology considerations related to linking data. Colorado and South Dakota Part C and Part B 619 staff shared updates on their governance and technology related work as they pursue Part C and 619 data linkages.

• Stay on the Linking Path: Don’t Forget Privacy (DaSy, 2017; NC)

  This second of three mini-webinars presented during Linking Week 2017, featured guidance from the Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), as well as lessons learned from North Carolina on ensuring privacy and confidentiality when linking.

• Data Linkages Between Part C and Part B – Transition Notification (DaSy, 2016; WI & KS)

  This 2016 state spotlight describes how Kansas and Wisconsin implemented changes to their data systems and program practices to meet new IDEA notification requirements for the transition from Part C to Part B. It also provides implications for other states’ consideration to promote effective and responsive transition for children with disabilities and their families.

• Alaska: Improving Referrals of Victims of Maltreatment to the IDEA Part C Program (DaSy, 2014; AK)

  This 2015 state spotlight document describes how Alaska Part C improved the referral of children from Child Welfare to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C Program by an automated transfer of data from Child Welfare to Part C for substantiated cases of child maltreatment (i.e., child abuse and/or neglect).