1. GOVERNOR’S BIRTH TO 8 SUMMIT: FIRST 3,000 DAYS IN THE FIRST STATE #BIRTHTO8DE

2. How Family Engagement Can Help Reduce Racial & Ethnic Disparities Elizabeth Lockman, Director PACE Christiana Cultural Arts Center

3. Gaps Start Early, at Home Hart & Risley (2003) : “The Early Catastrophe” Narrative - 30 Million Word Gap

4. Poverty & Race Of children under the age of 5 living in poverty, nationally: – 42.5 % are African American – 37.1 % are Latino

5. Poverty & Early Learning

6. Race & Early Learning

7. Gaps Persist: Outcomes in Delaware

8. Outcomes in Delaware

9. Family Engagement Family engagement is a family-centered and strengths-based approach to partnering with families in making decisions, setting goals, and achieving desired outcomes – for themselves and their children’s healthy development.

10. Panel #4: How Family Engagement Can Help Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities Daphne Y. Evans, M.S. Delaware Readiness Teams Governor’s Birth to 8 Summit February 10, 2016

11. What we know affects early learners… School strength/effectiveness Early learning program quality Family stability vs stresses Community stability and growth

12. What are Delaware Readiness Teams? ( DEL Teams ) An unique opportunity to build strong, reciprocal linkages between early childhood providers and K-12 schools A multi-faceted community approach to ensuring continuity of support and services for young children, birth through 8, and their families. Delaware’s Readiness Equation: Ready Families + Ready Early Care & Education Providers + Ready Communities + Ready Schools = Ready Children

13. What are the benefits of 21 teams?  DEL TEAMS will bring together partnerships of families, early childhood and K-12 educators, health care, human services, and civic leaders to make school readiness and the needs of young children a high priority.  Both the K-12 schools and the early care and education programs will understand their community’s strengths and needs to better design environments and instruction that support their students’ readiness and success.

14. Equality vs Equity

15. How Engaging Families… Completed initial profile of areas along with ongoing focus groups and surveys to follow-up Involving groups like PACE and PTA’s to join the conversations around the table Supporting and involving parents in decision making process in their own community Bookmobiles and other programs that go into distinct communities intentionally to have parents participate and identify leaders Hosting family support groups where parents can determine topics and create networks Distributing resources and guiding activities for families to support children’s preparedness at home.

16. How Family Engagement Can Help Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities What strategies would you most like to see implemented in the next three years that you think will have the greatest impact on helping families promote and advocate for their young children’s healthy development and learning? GOVERNOR’S BIRTH TO 8 SUMMIT ACTION PLANNING