1. Caring Families
Reading Bears
Marketplace

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Tracking Marketplace Connections

7. Kathy Hale | Parent – Leader (513) 570-9214
CONTACT US
Kathy Hale | Parent – Leader
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Nicole Sofer | Outreach Associate
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Connie Stewart | Quality Improvement
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