RACE TO THE TOP – EARLY
LEARNING CHALLENGE (RTT-ELC)
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Date: March - 2015
Presenters: Paula Morgan, Andy Gomm
Certification Phase: Initiation
Project Background
New Mexico’s Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge has a goal of
ensuring that every child in New Mexico will have an equal opportunity
for success in school based upon equitable access to an aligned and high
quality early learning system
The Data System Project is designed to expand and align data systems so
that they can inform early childhood policy and outcomes and support an
aligned early childhood workforce development plan
The Data System will result in a data warehouse and reporting
mechanisms in order to make policy decisions and track the efficacy of
early learning programs as evidenced by the longitudinal tracking of child
outcomes
New Mexico Department of Health
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Authority & Organizational Structure
Shared among NMPED, CYFD and DOH:
New Mexico Department of Health
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Justification, Objectives and Impacts
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Expand and align existing DOH Family Infant Toddler - Key
Information Data System (FIT-KIDS) so that it can inform early
childhood policy and outcomes and support an aligned early
childhood workforce development plan
Update or add data sets to the existing FIT-KIDS application to
match integrated data sets across agencies the result being a
unified early learning data system
Incorporate unique identifier within existing FIT-KIDS to allow
both the deduplication of early childhood data for planning
purposes and longitudinal tracking of children in aggregate over
time
New Mexico Department of Health
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Scope-of-Work / Activity to-date
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The PED, CYFD, and DOH have been working collaboratively in developing an
aligned data dictionary and use of common data standards in order to transmit
certain fields to a data warehouse
Modify the FIT-KIDS application to be interoperable with a master patient index
to allow the generation of Unique Identifiers for children, programs and
providers
Develop and implement data and system enhancements within the FIT-KIDS
application to align with common data standards and to aid in data mapping and
geocoding
Develop and implement data sharing from FIT-KIDS to the data warehouse as
developed by PED, in order to allow cross agency information queried and
shared, as determined by the data governance committee
New Mexico Department of Health
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Schedule Estimate
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FIT-KIDS Data Dictionary:
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Unique ID System: Incorporation of Unique Identifier system as
created by PED [deliverable: working system]
FIT-KIDS Database Enhancements:
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Analysis of existing data elements within FIT-KIDS [deliverable: FIT-KIDS data
dictionary]
Analysis of FIT-KIDS data to be shared [deliverable: FIT-KIDS data sharing plan]
Update or add data sets to meet cross-agency data standards and system
requirements [deliverable: FIT-KIDS database enhancement]
Enhance FIT-KIDS residential address location to meet geocoding and mapping
requirements [deliverable: FIT-KIDS database enhancement]
Update diagnostic coding to meet the required ICD-10 (International Classification of
diseases) [deliverable: FIT-KIDS database enhancement]
Data Warehouse Implementation: Integration of FIT-KIDS data into
multi-agency data warehouse [deliverable: data warehouse integration]
New Mexico Department of Health
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Budget Estimate
Fiscal Year
Amount
Funding Source
2015
$ 0.00 Federal – Race to the Top –
Early Learning Challenge
2016
$ 383,000.00 Federal – Race to the Top –
Early Learning Challenge
2017
$ TBD Federal – Race to the Top –
Early Learning Challenge
New Mexico Department of Health
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Questions
New Mexico Department of Health
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