The strategic plan was developed May—July 2019, with a significant focus on engaging family and provider voices throughout the process. Montana’s early childhood strategic plan reflects the state’s approach to implementing a five-year effort toward strengthening the state’s early childhood system, with a focus on enhancing its early care and education mixed delivery system for children birth through five, particularly for vulnerable children. This plan builds from and replaces the 2013 early childhood system strategic plan and reflects the 2019 comprehensive statewide needs assessment findings and recommendations. Montana’s needs assessment, conducted January – July 2019, was a broad and deep analysis of the state’s ECE, family support, and health services and supports. (author abstract)