Great Start System Components

Pediatric and Family Health Care
Definition:  Comprehensive physical health and child development services – including screening, assessment, and intervention, as well as timely and appropriate referral for specialized developmental, behavioral and social-emotional assessments and interventions.


Social and Emotional Health Care
Definition:  Specialized screening, assessment and intervention services designed to promote the social-emotional well-being of all infants and young children, including infants and young children at-risk of developing emotional disturbances and infants and young children with diagnosed emotional disturbances.

Parenting Leadership
Definition:  A continuum of services and supports ranging from parent education for parents in the critical role they play in the healthy development of their infants and young children to parents as leaders who advocate for their own children as well as the needs of other young children. 

Early Care & Education
Definition:  Early care (child care) and education services that support the early learning, health and social-emotional well-being of infants and young children.

Family Support
Definition:  Services and supports that address the basic, daily living needs of families as well as child and family safety.  Services and supports that address the stressors impairing the ability of families to nurture the well-being, safety and overall healthy development of their infants and young children.