Program:
Healthy Families Prince George's
- Budget:
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$655,882
- Category:
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Human Services
- Population Served:
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Female Young Adults (20-25 years) -- currently not in use
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
Program Description:
Healthy Families is a comprehensive in-home intervention program serving at-risk, first-time mothers under the age of 25. The program serves 120 families a year with the goals of fostering healthy birth outcomes and reducing child abuse and neglect. Families stay in the program until the child is five years old.
Program Long-Term Success:
Children thrive in stable environments and enter school ready to learn. The family unit is self-sufficient, with self-determined long term goals.
Program Short-Term Success:
•Zero infant mortality
•100% of mothers receive prenatal care
•100% of babies are born at healthy weight
•Zero cases of child abuse and/or neglect
•95% of children stay up-to-date with immunizations
•85% of mothers have passing score in Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory
Program Success Monitored by:
Healthy Families uses
detailed documentation to measure the program’s effectiveness. The program
evaluates data on receipt of prenatal care, infant mortality, healthy birth
weights, reports of child abuse and neglect, immunizations, and parents’
knowledge of child development. Confidentiality of families’ information is
protected.
In addition to internal
evaluation, Healthy Families is evaluated every four years by outside
consultants to maintain credentialing by Prevent Child Abuse America. The
process is year-long and begins with a self-assessment followed by a three-day
site visit with two out of state peer reviewers. All documentation is then
submitted to Prevent Child Abuse America for review. Rigorous and comprehensive
measures ensure that we are meeting standards.
Program Success Examples:
Claudia is 17 and a junior in high school. She is making excellent grades and looks forward to being on the honor roll. She is also the proud mom of Giovanni, her 21 month old son.
When Claudia was 15, pregnant and scared, she found out about Healthy Families. She began working with Rocio, her family support worker, and learned so much about raising a son. She created goals for her and her baby, made appointments for check-ups, and grew in her knowledge of child development. She has a nurturing bond with her son and Giovanni is thriving.
Program:
Family Support Center
- Budget:
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$450,912
- Category:
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Human Services
- Population Served:
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Adults
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Hispanics
Program Description:
Serving 130 families each year with children age 0-4, the Adelphi/Langley Park Family Support Center offers adult education and family literacy classes, parenting and health education, and employment readiness. Services are offered at no cost and child care and transportation is provided.
Program Long-Term Success:
Families strive for self-sufficiency and create better lives for their children. Parents learn English, improve literacy skills and obtain better employment. Children enter school ready to learn.
Program Short-Term Success:
•90% of the adult
participants improve literacy skills
•90% of parents participating in Career Planning Training transition to higher
education, job training and/or job placement.
•95% of parents demonstrate understanding of positive and nurturing parenting
techniques.
•95% of children improve cognitive and language abilities
Program Success Monitored by:
The core funder, Maryland
Family Network, evaluates the FSC twice a year. Data is collected on program
structure, environment, program administration, and service delivery of all
services. An onsite report with comments and recommendations is submitted to
the Resource Center and any areas of concern are immediately addressed.
The FSC’s Infant Toddler
program is also evaluated annually using the ITERS (Infant/Toddler
Environmental Rating Scale) and
consistently score near perfect. The Parent Education program uses the AAPI (Adult
and Adolescent Parenting Inventory).
This pre and post test is used in our 8 week parenting series to assess
increased understanding and changes in parenting views. FSC uses the “Nurturing
Program” as its core parenting curriculum. Participant satisfaction/suggestion
surveys are completed twice a year. Information is used to improve program
effectiveness.
Program Success Examples:
Angelica is determined to provide a better life for children. She credits the Family Support Center with helping her to achieve that goal. Her 2-year old son always wants her to read to him, a result of the time he spends in the literacy-rich child development program. Angelica is able to read to him because she has improved her literacy skills through the adult education classes. She is proudly completing her GED.
Program:
Community Programs
- Budget:
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$518,569
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Adults
Program Description:
Community Programs works with child care providers to improve the quality of care in child care centers and family child care homes. The program offers training approved by the Maryland State Department of Education and in-depth quality enhancement mentoring.
Program Long-Term Success:
Child care providers create nurturing, educational environments so children can thrive and enter school ready to learn.
Program Short-Term Success:
•95% of training
participants indicate they will implement knowledge gained
•Increase number of providers pursuing credentialing and accreditation
Program Success Monitored by:
Each workshop participant
completes a pre-and-post test assessment. At the conclusion of the workshop,
participants also complete a satisfaction survey. Each session’s surveys are
compiled into one document reviewed by the Director of Community Programs. In
this way information about the effectiveness of the trainer, the value of the
information, suggestions for future and even the comfort of the environment can
be quickly reviewed. This information is compiled monthly and used extensively
in planning future trainings. Sessions are improved, redesigned, or
discontinued based on the feedback.
Our Project WIN is an early mental health consultation project for
children under 5 that exhibit difficult behavior. This project is evaluated
externally and independently. Data is collected to track changes that have
occurred as a result of the Resource Center’s intervention. Confidential
surveys are completed by the child’s teacher, the program director, and parents
over time and sent directly to the evaluator.
Program Success Examples:
Nina is now Director of a child care center that she has worked at since she was 16. She has taken advantage of the Resource Center's early literacy program and says, "The Resource Center has enabled us to raise the standard of our programs." She and her staff, who work with mostly lower income children, had support and resources to create a print-rich environment and accessed extensive training and technical assistance to implement improvements in instruction. According to Nina, children she served will enter school ready to learn.