10 GCA § 3902: Goals and Objectives of the Early Learning Council.

(a) The Council has the following as its goals:

(1) to increase supports and services for young children and their families by strengthening cross-agency coordination, involving public and private entities, to ensure delivery of comprehensive services for young children and their families; and

(2) to expand and refine Guam’s Policy Agenda for Early Learning- Birth to Eight (8).

(b) The Council has the following objectives to support these goals:

(1) to strengthen collaboration among governance entities that oversee and coordinate subsystems;

(2) to leverage funding streams to maximize resources;

(3) to develop and implement a mechanism for cross-agency data collection for monitoring and reporting;

(4) to create cross-agency standards for child and family outcomes;

(5) to define professional development structures to ensure an appropriately skilled systems workforce; and

(6) to expand awareness of and access to parent education and family supports.