1. Early Childhood and School Readiness: What’s Neighborhood Got To Do With It?
Phase I Findings from the Memphis Site
NNIP-Casey Cross-Site Initiative
November 2008
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2. Key Findings: Memphis
Neighborhood level risks and assets: poorly articulated in early childhood-school readiness conversation
Confounding factor: high rates of neighborhood mobility
Assets and funding streams: underestimated, siloed, non-strategic, and geographically anachronistic
Memphis and Shelby County: data-rich but poor on issue framing and dissemination of actionable knowledge

3. Where do we go from here? Framing: Neighborhood Risk and Asset Zones
Asset mapping: collaborative data collection
Strategic working groups: e.g. site-based services

4. NNIP: Value Added Neighborhood Risk and Asset Mapping
Drill-down to neighborhood level indicators
Template for asset mapping
Messaging for neighborhood risks and assets