Project Thrive and the Resources of NCCP A Webinar for the ECCS Community
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Project Thrive and the Resources of NCCP
A Webinar for the ECCS Community
Jane Knitzer, EdDDirector, NCCP
New York, NY | October 29, 2008
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Who We Are
NCCP is a non-partisan, public interest research organization at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
NCCP uses research to promote the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s
low-income children and families. Our ultimate goal: Improved outcomes for the next generation.
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NCCP’s Core Foci
Family Economic Security Promoting Opportunity and Mobility
Early Childhood Promoting Healthy Development and School Success
Health and Mental Health Promoting Family Stability and Emotional Wellbeing
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The Larger Context: Low-Income Status Varies by Age
Percent (%)
0
10
20
30
40
50
PoorLow-income
12–176–1153–4Under 3
43%5.4 million
43%3.5 million
42%1.7 million 39%
9.3 million 35%8.9 million
21%2.7 million
21%1.7 million
20%0.8 million 17%
4.1 million16%
3.9 million
Children living in low-income and poor families, by age group, 2007
Source: Douglas-Hall, Ayana; Chau, Michelle. 2008. Basic Facts About Low-income Children: Birth to Age 18. New York, NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.
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Variation by State: Children Under SixLow-income rates for young children across the states, 2007
DC
30 to 39% [15]Under 30% [5]
50% or more [6]40 to 49% [25]
Source: Data prepared by the National Center for Children in Poverty, based on U.S. Current Population Survey, March Annual Social and Economic Supplement, 2006-2008.
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About Project Thrive
Project Thrive is a public policy analysis and education initiative to promote healthy child development.
Supported through a cooperative agreement with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HRSA-DHHS.
In its 4th year Aim: Help states strengthen their cross-sector early childhood systems through policy analysis and information sharing
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Thrive’s Logic Model Linking Policies to Improve Results
Improved Policy and Finance Context
Improved Child / Family Services Across Systems
Improved Outcomes
Better use of existing resources across programs and funding streams
Improved coordination of eligibility and outreach processes
Better mechanisms to integrate service systems
Cross-system approaches to serve and support families
Better implementation of critical components
More children with medical homes linked to system of care
Earlier identification
of special needs Cross-system training and professional development
Better family support Services in settings families rely on and trust
More access to coordinated services for those with greater risks and needs
Improved child health and development
Reduced family stress Improved parenting Improved work attendance for parents
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What We Do
Synthesize and generate new knowledge about policies and practice.
Actively promote peer-to-peer transfer of knowledge
Develop tools that support systems development Disseminate materials to core stakeholders and
others Develop tools for ECCS Respond selectively to specific requests (e.g.
Tennessee MH fact Sheet)
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Thrive Resources
Virtual Policy Sharing Network (VPSN) Webinars and conference calls
Short Takes Targets core ECCS stakeholders to provide a “big
picture” on critical system-related issues Issue Briefs
Major topical issue briefs that reach the broader policy community (researchers, advocates, professional organizations) often linked to Emerging Issues Roundtables
Informal Consultation to States
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Thrive Page on NCCP.org
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Thrive Collaborations
LAUNCH (Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health), a SAMHSA Project Will support infrastructure development and policy
reform at state/territorial/tribal level and enhanced programs and services at the local level
NCCP will develop Financing and Indicators resources relevant to state and local level stakeholders, hope to work with ECCS in project states
Build/NCCP Initiative Promoting health and mental health in the context of
early childhood: invitations to selected state teams
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Areas of Focus in our Work To Date
Strengthening Cross-system Infrastructure
Promoting Strategic Fiscal Analysis Building Accountability Through Indicators
Focusing on the Highest Risk Young Children and Families ( Home Visiting; Maternal Depression)
Strengthening the ECE State Policy Framework (Learning Collaboratives)
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Thrive Work of the Future
A series of four webinars and four conference calls • The webinars will include continued attention to indicators, to the more vulnerable children and to opportunities linked to the larger federal context
• The conference calls will address links between ECCS and Early Childhood Advisory Councils (ECAC) as well as some areas that NCCP has not focused on but that are part of ECCS (e.g. Advanced Medical Homes and Oral Health)
Issue briefs related to fiscal strategies and Indicators
On-going efforts to help states address the policy implications of the new ECCS guidance.
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Other (Selected) NCCP Projects and Resources
Early Childhood Improving the Odds Research Connections Chronic Absenteeism Kellogg Part C
Family Economic Security Health and Mental Health
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Improving the Odds Is intended to
Sharpen the debate on effective state policies to promote early childhood development
Focus on young children (< age 6) and their families Is based on
existing 50 state data bases, and is not definitive list of what states should be or are doing
Provides State, regional, and national early childhood profiles 50-state data tables for comparisons across the states A baseline to monitor state and national trends
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ITO’s Integrated Policy Approach
T H R I V I N G C H I L D R E N
3. Economically secure and nurturing families
1. Good health and mental health
2. High-quality early care and learning
Clipart courtesy of FCIT
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Underlying Principles of ITO
Focus on vulnerable families. Families earning less that 200 percent of the poverty level may struggle to meet the basic needs of their children.
State policy choices matter. How a state chooses to allocate federal and state funds, promote quality, and establish eligibility criteria influences who has access to essential supports and who does not.
Research should inform state policies. Research on the effects of poverty, the biology of the developing brain, the cumulative effects of risk, and the effectiveness of evidence-based interventions can inform policy choices. (See NCCP’s User Guide to ITO)
Balance the three-legged stool. Strong policies in one area can be undermined by weak policies in another. Seek balance across child health, early learning, and family support.
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Implications for ECCS
Compare your state early childhood profile to the regional and national profile. Where are your policy strengths and weaknesses?
Customize your state early childhood profile by identifying other policy choices your state is or could make.
Make the research case for a more comprehensive early childhood policy agenda in your state.
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Research Connections is a quick and comprehensive, online one-stop for research on child care and early education.
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Searchable collection of over 13,000 early care and education resources (journal articles, reports, policy
briefs, etc.)
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Produce different types of research synthesis on critical issues in the field.
Offer policy briefs (Research-to-Policy Connections) and literature reviews (Reviews of Research).
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Also produce - Key Topic Resource Lists - which provide a quick summary of the research and an interactive bibliography.
Have one on each of the 5 ECCS components.
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Chronic Absenteeism in Early Schooling
A study based on national, longitudinal data on children entering kindergarten in 1998 – the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K, NCES)
An estimated one in ten kindergarten and first grade students are chronically absent nationally Who is most often chronically absent?
• Poor and low income children • Children with poor health status• Children who were cared for by parents and relatives during the year
before kindergarten, as opposed to those who received center-based care• Children who are chronically absent in kindergarten are more often
chronically absent in later grades• Some districts and schools have higher incidence of chronic absence than
others
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Chronic Absenteeism in Early Schooling (cont)
Chronic early absence adversely affects academic performance throughout the elementary grades Latino children who were chronically absent in kindergarten performed low in first grade reading
Poor children who were chronically absent in kindergarten had low academic achievement in fifth grade
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Chronic Absenteeism in Early Schooling and Maternal and Family Risk Maternal and family risks - poverty, teenage and/or single
parenting, low levels of maternal education, receipt of welfare, unemployment, poor maternal health, food insecurity, and large family size - are related to greater absenteeism: The cumulative exposure to risk best predicts chronic absenteeism in early
schooling Kindergarteners in contact with three or more risks were more often chronic
absentees than their peers not facing any risks But as children progress through the elementary grades, the impact of
cumulative risk on school attendance lessens, only to rise again in the fifth grade
The most vulnerable children – those who are poor or racial/ethnic minorities or suffer from poor health – have the greatest exposure to cumulative risk
Implications for ECCS: examine the issue in your own state: convene a work group
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Kellogg Pathways to 3rd Grade Success
Test out the Pathways to Third Grade Success Framework to help communities achieve school readiness goals
Develop tools to help communities engage in strategic fiscal and program analysis to maximize impact of local wisdom plus empirical knowledge base
Pilot test in two or three sites: Develop multi-site learning collaborative in years
two or three, engaging communities and states Implications for ECCS: Help with state to local
technical assistance
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Part C
Aim: Understand how to maximize integration of social and emotional with other Part C activities
Project Activities 50 state survey of Part C Coordinators on screening and assessment of children in social emotional domain
Case studies in six sites implementing innovative approaches to integrating social and emotional with other Part C activities
Implications for ECCS: Invite you to tell us about innovative efforts and/or barriers.
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Family Economic Security
Rationale for NCCP’s focus on Family Economic Security Research is clear that poverty is one of the greatest threats – if not the single most important threat – to child health and development.
A major goal of our Family Economic Security work is to illuminate the connections between family economic status and children’s chances for success.
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Family Economic Security
Current topics Effects of poverty and economic hardship on child development and family well-being
Low-wage work and work supports Measures of income adequacy (such as the poverty measure, basic needs budgets)
Economic mobility and intergenerational poverty Universal supports for working families (e.g., child care, family leave, asset protection)
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Family Economic Security
Current Projects: Making Work Supports Work NCCP works with state partners to examine existing work support policies and to identify and promote policy reforms that make work pay for low-wage workers and their families.
Project uses NCCP’s Family Resource Simulator—online policy tool that shows the impact of federal and state work supports on the budgets of low- to moderate-income families.
The Basic Needs Budget Calculator is a related tool that shows how much a family needs to make ends meet.
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Family Resource Simulator
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Family Economic Security
Current Projects: 50-state profiles and report State Family Economic Security profiles provide data on low-income families and highlight state policy choices to promote work attachment and advancement, income adequacy, and asset development.
Staying Afloat in Tough Times: What States Are and Are not Doing to Promote Family Economic Security
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Health and Mental Health Agenda Unclaimed Children: 50 state policy study
National study California case study Michigan case study
Reducing Adolescent Risk: 50 state health policy study (aim: changes public discourse to a population approach to policy making in adolescent health)
Pilot examination of factors impacting successful transitions for homeless youth through the Center for Homeless Prevention Studies Spring, 2008
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Questions
What are critical issues not on our agenda that would be helpful to you?
In what other ways might we be helpful to you?
Would you like copies of any written materials?
Please share your questions and comments !
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For more information contact us at [email protected]
Jane KnitzerDirector, National Center for Children in Poverty
Janice CooperDirector, Child Health & Mental Health
Leslie DavidsonSenior Health Advisor
Louisa B. HigginsInterim Coordinator, Project THRIVE
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