Caring Families Reading Bears Marketplace

Families’ needs constantly change! BACKGROUND Families’ needs constantly change! Parents have things they no longer want or need. clothes car seats Other families could use those things. Solution! Connect families to help each other by trading items and services! toys books strollers furniture

KEY DRIVER DIAGRAM Family built solutions to barriers The Marketplace: Revision Date:  02/27/18 (v8) KEY DRIVER DIAGRAM Caring Family Reading Bears and MORE Key Driver Diagram (KDD): Our Road Map to Reaching Our Goal Key Drivers: What we need to reach our goal Global Aim Interventions: Ideas we are trying out 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 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 Parent-Led Community Reading Events  (Checklist/Logistics): Families lead reading events in the community  - Wednesday and Gabriel's place, S. Avondale Elementary Owner: Mrs. J SMART Aim: Our Goal Family built solutions to barriers  AIM 1: Increase the number of Avondale families agreeing to read to their children 2X 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 The Marketplace: Families connect to help each other by trading items & services Owner: Kathy Hale Enough books, materials for all Reading Cub Observation Sheets Owner: Dawn Denno Safe, caring interactions Population: The families we learn with Reading Promise Form Families promise to read 2x a week Owner: Call Leaders Healthy Mind and Body  Households in Avondale who have signed the Reading Bears Promise Form with children from 0 to 9 years old (1,039) Legend Avondale Partnership and BUILD Grants Potential intervention Active intervention Abandoned intervention Adopted intervention

See Something You Can Use? How the Marketplace Works See Something You Can Use? Take one side of the post-it. Connect to the person on the post-it and arrange how to get the item. Add the date. Move the dated post-it under the Connections Made! section. Post Things I Have or Things I Need Fill out left side with item, name, and contact information. Repeat item, name, and contact information on the right side.

The Change We Are Testing (PDSA) What Are We Trying? Testing a family-built solution that allows families to make connections to help each other by trading items & services. What Are We Learning? The trading board really works! Families have exchanged clothes, furniture, and there is even a job posting. What’s Next? Continue testing, tracking number of connections are families are making.

Tracking Marketplace Connections

Kathy Hale | Parent – Leader (513) 570-9214 CONTACT US Kathy Hale | Parent – Leader (513) 570-9214 Nicole Sofer | Outreach Associate (513) 803-6107 Connie Stewart | Quality Improvement (513) 517-0284