Early Care & Education Map

Insights and Analysis

Learn More about Vulnerable Children in Colorado

In an effort to provide more insight into Colorado’s early childhood landscape, Shift Research Lab released Colorado's Youngest: A Profile of the 0-5 Population, a demographic brief on children born in the last five years in Colorado, with a specific emphasis on metro Denver.

A Creative Approach to Calculating ECE Accessibility

The Early Care and Education Map is a tool we created to identify a community’s access to ECE facilities across metro Denver. The data collected answers a complicated question: How and why do parents choose a particular ECE?