Program Summary
- Goal: The Birth to Five Community Initiative seeks to address disparities in our community involving social determinants of health such as education access and quality, economic stability, and health care access. With Handley Library’s approach to increasing school readiness through education and early literacy and Healthy Families’ work in health and education, we can collectively achieve growth in overall family engagement and outcomes. As a result of this multilateral partnership, families will be more prepared to equip their children with the sustainable foundation to be ready for school earlier in a child’s life.
- Framework: The Birth to Five Initiative is a multilateral partnership consisting of three agencies: Handley Regional Library System, Healthy Families NSV, and the John & Janice Wyatt Foundation. As such, the individual program goals of each organization are distinct, but will be stacked and aligned to support the greater, unified goal of improved kindergarten readiness. Each organization will bring a different component to the overall strategy and thus create complementary, braided solutions. This initiative will link the following:
- Improve interest in reading and increased access to books through Handley Library’s Youth Services department expansion as part of their Family Place Library accreditation.
- Increase access to books through the Library’s Care Packages, which will also begin to assist caregivers with improved nighttime routines and healthy sleep habits.
- Establish Parents as Teachers (PAT Program) to offer a wide variety of health-related family classes, take-home assets and materials, and resource navigation, in addition to the home visitation work that is already happening in the community.
- J2W will provide 3-years of funding to cover the cost of the program.
Measures of Performance
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Data Analysis
- Goal: The Birth to Five Community Initiative seeks to address disparities in our community involving social determinants of health such as education access and quality, economic stability, and health care access. With Handley Library’s approach to increasing school readiness through education and early literacy and Healthy Families’ work in health and education, we can collectively achieve growth in overall family engagement and outcomes. As a result of this multilateral partnership, families will be more prepared to equip their children with the sustainable foundation to be ready for school earlier in a child’s life.
- Framework: The Birth to Five Initiative is a multilateral partnership consisting of three agencies: Handley Regional Library System, Healthy Families NSV, and the John & Janice Wyatt Foundation. As such, the individual program goals of each organization are distinct, but will be stacked and aligned to support the greater, unified goal of improved kindergarten readiness. Each organization will bring a different component to the overall strategy and thus create complementary, braided solutions. This initiative will link the following:
- Improve interest in reading and increased access to books through Handley Library’s Youth Services department expansion as part of their Family Place Library accreditation.
- Increase access to books through the Library’s Care Packages, which will also begin to assist caregivers with improved nighttime routines and healthy sleep habits.
- Establish Parents as Teachers (PAT Program) to offer a wide variety of health-related family classes, take-home assets and materials, and resource navigation, in addition to the home visitation work that is already happening in the community.
- The Birth to Five Community Initiative will serve families with children ages birth to five in Winchester, Frederick, Clarke, and Warren Counties. By targeting parents and caregivers with young children, the initiative sets children up for future success in school, thus setting them up for success later in life. The free resources and services provided will reach families of all economic status, but particularly those who are low-income. A mother’s education and reading skill is the biggest factor in her children’s future academic success, so reaching these families is key. By increasing the reach of our programing to engage families with young children we will be able to help ensure they are off to a healthy and educated start.
- Measures of Performance: Our intent is to identify key output and outcome measures for each of the two sub-strategies within the program that best describe how much we are doing and how well we are doing it. Each data point will be measured quarterly, with each organization providing the required data to J2W. By 2025, we expect to have a developed set of output and outcomes measures to evaluate performance. Outcome measures will be primarily derived from Handley Library’s Family Place accreditation requirements and Healthy Families’ PAT Program.