Project Eagle

Project EAGLE is a major division of the Department of Pediatrics, within the School of Medicine, at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Project EAGLE manages multiple home-based and center-based early childhood education and comprehensive family support programs in Wyandotte County, Kansas

Mission

Project EAGLE's mission is to blend public and private dollars to assure that young children most at risk for academic failure receive the comprehensive services necessary for them to be healthy and successful in school and life.

Within the broader mission of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Project EAGLE has three essential aims:

• To offer early childhood education and comprehensive family support services to pregnant women and young children and families.
  • To advance the practice of staff, students, and professionals working in the fields of early education, social work, public health, medicine, nursing, and allied health.
  • To spur research that results in improved outcomes for children and families and initiates systems change.

Key features supporting the program's success include:

• Enrolling pregnant women and children in the early months and years.
• Focusing on school readiness.
• Supporting parents as their child's first and most important teacher.
• Assisting families reach their goals for self-sufficiency.
• Implementing a multi-disciplinary approach to working with families.
• Integrating health care within the normal routines of families.
• Using research and evidence-based practices.
• Establishing community collaborations and partnerships.
• Providing continuous staff development opportunities.
• Implementing a system of reflective supervision.
• Tracking individual child and family outcomes.

Location

Project EAGLE is housed at the Children's Campus of Kansas City (CCKC), 444 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66101. The CCKC is the result of a successful public-private partnership in which private dollars financed the construction of a state-of-the-art facility where agencies, sustained by public dollars, provide quality programming for children and families on a bedrock of research and evidenced-based practices.