1. Caring Families Reading Bears
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More

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

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

6. Want To Learn More. Contact: Kirsten Zook Outreach Specialist kirsten
Want To Learn More? Contact: Kirsten Zook Outreach Specialist Nicole Sofer Outreach Associate