Caring Families Reading Bears and More

Background Caring Families Reading Bears Problem: 50% of kindergartners in Avondale are not ready to succeed in school Response! Parent partners came together to form Caring Families Reading Bears, holding weekly meetings to: learn about literacy share resources celebrate success distribute free books track the number of families reading with their children each week coordinate a trading market board demonstrate wellness strategies (healing circle, share & report outs) April 2017 April 2018

Family built solutions to barriers Caring Family Reading Bears and More Key Driver Diagram (KDD): Our Road Map to Reaching Our Goal Revision Date:  02/27/18 (v8) Global Aim Interventions: Ideas we are trying out Key Drivers: What we need to reach our goal All Cincinnati children will have opportunities to develop foundational skills to be successful in school Welcome New Families: (Greeter) Our group welcomes new families to Wednesday meetings and provide new books and resources Owner: Marketing Team  Activated, trusted community, parent, and grandparent leaders Family built solutions to barriers  Parent-Led Community Reading Group (Checklist/Logistics): Families lead reading group to share literacy tips & community updates Operational Definition - Self reported data (via discussions, Wednesday meeting) . In meeting we have to tease out Avondale families (idea add to the promise card commitment sheet). Reading (doesn’t have to be a book, any literacy activity signs, cereal, songs, rhymes. Note – we are having the op def include the number in the “commit” as denominator Length of time  What does the evidence say about time of reading that has the impact desired SMART Aim: Our Goal AIM 1:Increase the number of Avondale families agreeing to read to their children 2 X per week or more from 40 to 114. AIM 2:  Increase the number of Avondale confirmed families who engage in appropriate bi-weekly literacy activities with children in their family (or neighborhood) from 0 to 57  by June 2018.    Celebrations of Growth and Learnings with Adult & Child Process: Weekly celebration of new families recruits Reading Promise Form: Families promise to read 2x a week Owner: Call Leaders Enough books, materials for all Reading Station: (TBD) Group reading opportunity at Wednesday Meetings Population: The families we learn with Safe, caring interactions Reading Cub Observation Sheets Owner: Dawn Denno  Households in Avondale who have signed the Reading Bears Promise Form with children from 0 to 9 years old (1,039) Healthy Mind and Body Avondale Partnership and BUILD Grants Legend Potential intervention Active intervention Abandoned intervention Adopted intervention

Parents PDSA in Progress ACT Does the reading space increase your child’s reading time? Based on what we learned, what new ideas should we test next? PLAN Test: Create an in home reading corner to see if it increases child reading time. Prediction: Will he/she read longer? Will he/she be more or less distracted? Plan: Who gets the books? Where is the reading space? STUDY Compare what happened to your predictions. What did you learn? What might you try next time? DO Carry out the plan. Count how many minutes you spend reading with your child. Write down things that happened that were not part of the plan.

Care Promise Commitments Cumulative Number of Parents Who Agreed to Read to Their Children 2x Per Week April 2017 through June 2018 Desired Direction

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