Early Childhood

The University of Wyoming supports families and professionals through a range of programs focused on early childhood health and development. These initiatives provide evidence-based information, training, and support for families of children with developmental disabilities, autism, or other special health care needs. Programs like the Wyoming Family to Family Health Information Center and UW ECHO for Families foster family-professional partnerships, while national collaborations such as Act Early ECHO promote early identification practices across states. Additional efforts focus on training interdisciplinary teams to support children impacted by trauma, neonatal abstinence syndrome, and prenatal substance exposure, linking research to practical care in local communities.

Family to Family

Wyoming Family to Family Health Information Center provides families of children and youth with special health care needs greater access to evidence-based and cost-effective health information, family supports, and training in order to promote optimal health and patient engagement in health care decision making.

Family to Family

Learn the Signs. Act Early.

Act Early ECHO provides information and resources about current and emerging knowledge and evidence-based promising practices about the four phases of early identification: family-engaged developmental monitoring, developmental screening, referrals for needed supports and services, and receipt of needed services.

Act Early

ECHO for Families

ECHO for Families is a community that provides opportunities for learning, advocacy, and mentorship with families that have a child with developmental disabilities, autism, or other special healthcare needs.

ECHO for Families

SCOPE

The purpose of this national initiative is to train interdisciplinary teams in targeted states on emerging knowledge and evidence-based practices in screening, monitoring and interdisciplinary care for children impacted by neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), trauma, or related exposure.

Project SCOPE