School Readiness Program - Early Childhood Advisory Council Coordinator (Washington) Annual

Program Summary

Funds will be utilized to hire an ECAC (Early Childhood Advisory Council) Coordinator who will support child care providers in their efforts to improve the quality of their services. The ECAC will increase parent knowledge, empowering parents as their child's first teacher through parent education workshops, trainings, parent-child activities and events.

Target Population

Services will be targeted toward children, parents, and child care providers within emphasized areas of poverty however services will be available to all children in Washington County.

Promising Practice/Model/EBP Employed

Locally developed program that will ensure a comprehensive service approach with data that supports positive outcomes/results.

Measures

WACO

"How Much" # of Learning Parties Series held - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" # of Parent Cafes held - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" # of parent/caregiver education trainings provided - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" # of literacy programs offered - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" # of parent/caregivers who attended one of the above trainings/programs - (Annual)

FY 2016

493

WACO

"How Much" # of parent/caregivers who attended more than one of the above trainings/programs - (Annual)

FY 2016

363

WACO

"How Much" # of parent/child engagement activities offered - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much: # of unduplicated parents who attended one ore more of the parent/child engagement activities offered - (Annual)

FY 2016

183

WACO

"How Much" # of unduplicated children who attended one ore more fo the parent/child engagement activities provided - (Annual)

FY 2016

129

WACO

"How Much" # of participants that attended the Born Learning Festival or similar community initiative - (Annual)

FY 2016

1,000

WACO

"How Well" % of parents who attended one or more of the above trainings/programs that feel an increase in knowledge and empowerment in being their child's first teacher (per participant evaluation form) - (Annual)

FY 2016

79%

WACO

"How Much" # of parents who attended one or more of the above trainings/programs that feel an increase in knowledge and empowerment in beign their child's first teacher - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" % of child care providers who feel an increase in knowledge of school readiness requirements and can identify skills children need to be fully ready for kindergarten (per participant evaluation form) - (Annual)

FY 2016

80%

WACO

"How Much" # of child care providers who feel an increase in knowledge of school readiness requirements and can identify skills children need to be fully ready for kindergarten - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" % of parents who feel an increase in knowledge of school readiness requirements and can identify skills children need to be fully ready for kindergarten (per participant evaluation form) - (Annual)

FY 2016

71%

WACO

"How Much" # of parents who feel an increase in knowledge of school readiness requirements and can identify skills children need to be fully ready for kindergarten - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" % of child care providers who attended one ore more of the formal trainings/conferences supported by ECAC who also provide services for the low-income target population - (Annual)

FY 2016

66%

WACO

"How Much" # of child care providers who attended one ore more formal trainings/conferences supported by ECAC who also provide services for the low-income target population - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"How Much" % of families attending trainings/programs supported by ECAC who are the low-income population - (Annual)

FY 2016

71%

WACO

"How Much" # of families attending trainings/programs supported by ECAC who are the low-income population - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"Better Off" % of childcare providers who felt information was beneficial in learning to engage with children in their care and will implement at least one of the learned strategies within their program (per participant evaluation form) - (Annual)

FY 2016

77%

WACO

"Better Off" # of child care providers who felt information was beneficial in learning to engage with children in their care and will implement at least one learned strategies within their program - (Annual)

FY 2016

102

WACO

"Better Off" % of Learning Parties Series participants who indicated they will implement learning strategies at home with their child (per Learning Party evaluations) - (Annual)

FY 2016

78%

WACO

"Better Off" # of Learning Parties Series participants who indicated they will implement learning strategies at home with their child - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"Better Off" % of parents attending trainings/programs who said that they would initiate new behaviors to promote school readiness at home (per participant evaluation form) - (Annual)

FY 2016

71%

WACO

"Better Off" # of parents attending trainings/programs who said that they would initiate new behvaiors to promote school readiness at home - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"Better Off" % of persons receiving the Council Connections newsletter who expressed increased awareness of Early Childhood resources available in Washington County (per online survey) - (Annual)

FY 2016

WACO

"Better Off" # of persons receiving the Council Connections newsletter who expressed increased awareness of Early Childhood resources available in Washington County - (Annual)

FY 2016

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