KEY DATA TRENDS Updated Ionia County Community Conditions and data trends to consider in Planning Great Start Goals
Framework for Strategic Planning using ABLe Change
Review of Community Data The trends are keyed onto the 4 Goals of Ionia’s current Great Start Collaborative Strategic Plan 1. Support the ICGSC’s role in the community on advocacy and parent involvement 2. Improve Wellness for children, targeting prenatal through age 8 3. Children in Ionia County are prepared to succeed in school 4. Families are able to support and guide the learning of birth to eight children in Ionia Going to dig a little deeper into community data that helps us understand “school ready by kindergarten”
Population Demographics
Number of 3 & 4 Year Old Children 2014 Orleans 28 North Plains 29 Otisco 116 Lyons 138 Ronald 18 Ionia twp 125 Belding 122 Sebewa 38 Berlin 53 Portland 110 Pinconning Twp 177 Orange 23 Fraser 185 Kawkawlin 180 Odessa 112 Boston 110 Danby 62 Campbell 53 Portland City 146 Easton 64 Keene 109 Ionia City 278
Number of Children in Preschool Pierson 173 Douglass 135 Pinconning Twp 177 Fraser 185 Kawkawlin 180 Reynolds 375
Advocacy & Coordination on Importance of Early Childhood Education
Kindergarten Round Up Survey Results 2015
Parents’ Reponses on Pre-school access
Health Indicators: Percentage of Children (all under 18) without Health Insurance Coverage
Kindergarten Roundup Survey 2015
Health Indicators: Prenatal Care & Births
Health Indicators: Abuse and Neglect Cases
Kindergarten Deferred
School Ready Indicators: Children in Special Education
Education Indicators: 4th grade Reading
Education Indicator –School Attendance
Chronically Absent by Characteristic
Family Economics – Median Income
Family Economics- Unemployment
Family Economics- Parents in Workforce
Family Economics- All Parents in Workforce – Mapped for 2014
Family Economics: Percentage of People in Poverty
Family Economics: Children Under Age 5 in Poverty
Family Economics- Percentage of Families with all children under age 5, and in Poverty - Mapped for 2014
Basic Needs Supports Used by School District
Family Economics – Percent of Households paying more than 35% of income for rent
Family Economics – Percent of Households paying more than 35% of income for rent in 2014
Housing- Percent of People who Moved within County in last 12 months
Housing- Percent of those in poverty who moved within County in last 12 months
Pre–K Moved in Last Year by School District
Number of Child Care Slots in 2015 Number of slots by Type of Provider Number of Providers by Type
Ionia County Licensed Child Care by Location- 2015
Quality of Child Care Indicator: 3 through 5 Star Rated Sites- 2015
Economics of Child Care - Access
Connections to Community Supports
Connections Data
Social-Emotional Needs Identified by Parents
Parent Identified Needs by School District
Used School Readiness Supports -2015
2013 Goal 1- Support the ICGSC’s role in the community on advocacy and parent involvement A. Maintain engagement and effectiveness of ICGSC Board through sustaining parent involvement and voice B. Increase community support by educating Ionia County communities about Early Childhood Investment benefits C. Create blended funding opportunities in the Early Childhood system in Ionia County to address resource shortfalls D. Maintain a coordinated early childhood advocacy message in Ionia County
2013 Goal 2: Improve Wellness for Children, targeting prenatal through age 8 A. Develop and deliver wellness supports for families with children birth to age 8 B. Improve access to wellness supports for birth to eight families
2013 Goal 3: Children in Ionia County are prepared to succeed in school A. Increase access to affordable, quality preschool B. Build partnerships to promote early education quality through educational opportunities for preschool caregivers
2013 Goal 4: Families are able to support and guide the learning of birth to eight children in Ionia County A. Build parent supports into Ionia’s early childhood system B. Strengthen collaboration between referral sources