Raise Up Oregon: A Statewide Early Learning System Plan

SECOND EDITION (2024-2028) 

Raise Up Oregon serves as Oregon’s comprehensive state system plan for early childhood prenatal to age five. The plan brings together government leaders from early care and education, public education, higher education, health, housing, and human services.  

Raise Up Oregon is grounded in equity and the science of child development. By working together, leaders from every system, families, communities, and the public and private sectors can support Oregon’s youngest children during this critical period.  

The plan was created by the Early Learning Council and in partnership with six state agencies:

• Oregon Department of Education 
• Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care 
• Oregon Department of Human Services 
• Oregon Health Authority 
• Oregon Housing and Community Services 
• Higher Education Coordinating Commission  

The first edition of Raise Up Oregon is coming to a close in 2023.  

Share your feedback on Raise Up Oregon: Second Edition   

The development of this second edition included a review of nearly 80 documents from partner agencies. From strategic plans to community engagement sessions to agency assessments and research, the second edition considered the lived experiences and feedback from Oregon communities. Leadership groups within the early childhood system helped shape the draft goals and objectives before the strategies were developed and released as the second edition draft.  

Help make sure the state’s plan for early childhood meets your needs! The second edition of Raise Up Oregon is open for public feedback. Your input can help shape the actions of government agencies and improve early learning and care in Oregon. This first draft of Raise Up Oregon, second edition shares proposed goals, strategies, and objectives. We want to hear from families, professionals, and communities what they think are the most important priorities and if anything needs to be added or modified.  

Your voice matters!
How can Oregon better serve young children and their families? Does this plan address your community’s priorities? Does this plan meet your needs, and the needs of your child? We want to hear from you! The deadline to share feedback is Sunday, April 30 at 5 p.m.  

There are three ways to share feedback: 

1) Complete the Raise Up Oregon: Second Edition Community Feedback Form:

2) Send an email to Remy Watts, remy.watts@ode.oregon.gov 

3) Call, send a text, or submit a video to Remy Watts, 971-701-1535 

Share this opportunity with your community!  

Download the below toolkit for materials to support outreach efforts in your community. This toolkit includes a flier for digital and print use, along with sample social media posts and images, e-newsletter or e-blast copy, and presentation slides. Please feel free to make this toolkit your own by using language that feels most natural to you and your community.

Oregon’s Raise Up Oregon (2019 – 2023) Data Dashboard (“the Dashboard”) is a collection of 40 cross-agency indicators that are routinely gathered by these five state agencies. Each indicator relates to our state’s ambitious early learning strategic plan, Raise Up Oregon (2019 – 2023), which speaks to three system-level goals:

1. Children arrive ready for kindergarten,
2. Children are raised in healthy, stable, and attached families, and
3. The Early Learning System is aligned, coordinated, and family centered.

Oregon’s Dashboard intentionally gathers key cross-agency indicators together in one place, providing yearly point-in-time “snapshots” of the available early childhood system data. These snapshots are collected in the Dashboard, making it possible to see how the data change over time for each indicator from year to year. In this way, the Dashboard provides a big-picture overview of how well Oregon’s early childhood system is functioning.

The Dashboard makes state-level data available to everyone working to improve Oregon’s early childhood system. It is a conversation starter meant to support cross-agency communication and to bring community partners with diverse perspectives to the table to discuss Oregon’s early childhood system.

Specifically, the Dashboard is designed to have early childhood system community partners as its main users. These partners include, but are not limited to Early Learning Council members, Oregon state agency partners, policy makers, legislators, Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) staff, and Early Learning Hub staff.

The intended goal is that these community partners will be able to easily make data-informed decisions in their everyday work by easily accessing the information in the Dashboard. Although the Dashboard is not specifically designed to be used by families with young children or members of the early care and education workforce, anyone who is interested is invited to explore the Dashboard and its contents.

To learn more about the history and purpose of the Dashboard, you can read and download the report Introducing the Raise Up Oregon Data Dashboard.

To learn more about how to interpret the Dashboard, you can read and download the report Using the Raise Up Oregon Data Dashboard as a Tool for Equity-Focused Learning and Systems Change.