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Title: Our Children, Our Future


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Our Children, Our Future
  • Community Planning for
  • New Britains Young Children
  • Update March 3rd, 2009

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Connecticuts Early Childhood Cabinet goal
  • All of Connecticuts children should
  • Be Born Healthy,
  • Meet Their Developmental Milestones,
  • Start Kindergarten Ready to Learn, and
  • Read Well by the end of 3rd Grade.

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Our Children, Our Future
  • 50,000 grant plan how to make that statewide
    goal reality in New Britain.
  • The effort has involved parents, healthcare
    providers, social service childcare providers,
    city government and the school district staff.
  • The plan will be completed by this June.

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Our Children, Our Future
  • The planning process is using Results Based
    Accountability (RBA)
  • Our desired result is that

  • All of New Britains children ages birth
    through eight will be safe, healthy and
    successful learners.

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Our Children, Our Future
  • How will we measure our progress towards that
    desired result?

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Our Children, Our Future
  • RBA Population Level indicators.
  • A good indicator is
  • Readily available
  • Easily understood
  • Indicative of other measures

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Indicators for New Britain
  • of children born weighing lt5.5lbs.
  • of children born to women without a high school
    diploma (or equivalent).
  • of HUSKY children receiving all their well
    child visits by 15 months.
  • of children reading at grade level in
    kindergarten through 3rd grade.

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Our Children, Our Future
  • How is New Britain doing on those indicators
    and what are the trends?

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Our Children, Our Future
Well Child Visits We know that in 2006
statewide 42 of the children on HUSKY had missed
at least one well child visit by the time they
were 15 months old. A town by town breakout of
the data has been requested by DSS.
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Our Children, Our Future
  • Four committees looking at
  • Childrens Health
  • Parenting and Family Support
  • Early Care Education
  • Family Literacy

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Childrens Health
  • Maternal health
  • Low birth weight
  • Well child/preventive care
  • Screening for developmental delays

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Parenting and Family Support
  • Parenting information
  • Programming for families with infants and
    toddlers
  • Basic needs in tough times

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Early Care and Education
  • 300 infants and toddlers on waiting lists for
    affordable childcare
  • An additional 350 preschool slots so that every 3
    and 4 could attend
  • Improving the credentials of preschool staff.

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Family Literacy
  • Focus on oral language and building vocabulary in
    very young children.
  • Encourage reading at home
  • Expand efforts to teach adults basic literacy
    skills English as a 2nd language

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Our Children, Our Future
  • The RBA approach tells us to understand the
    stories behind the numbers before developing
    strategies.

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Next Steps
  • Specific strategy development
  • Cost estimating
  • Prioritization
  • Identification of Low/No Cost Options

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Our Children, Our Future
  • Next Steps
  • Specific strategy development
  • Cost estimating
  • Prioritization
  • Identification of Low/No Cost Options

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Our Children, Our Future
  • We invite your input
  • You can reach Merrill Gay at
  • 229-6018 x 309 or
  • merrillg_at_nbdiscovery.org
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