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Public Housing: Collaborations and Partnerships to Support Early School Success CGLR Housing Partner Discussion Series / May 7, 2019

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Agenda • Welcome and Setting the Context for Today’s Discussion • Featured Presentations: Three models for effective collaborations between PHAs and local and national partners – Boulder Housing Partners and Bringing School Home – ParentChild+ and the Philadelphia Housing Authority – L.O.U. Reads and the Oxford Housing Authority • Discussion and Q&A with Attendees • Closing Thoughts and Save the Date gradelevelreading.net / @readingby3rd / #GLReading 3

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CGLR’s Work With Public Housing Authorities Engage PHAs to join CGLR’s Learning for Impact and Deepen Improvement System Engagement Lift up what’s working at PHAs through Bright Spots and Pacesetters Connect PHAs with national partners working to further early Broker childhood success and grade-level reading Opportunities Connect PHAs with peer groups working in the housing/ education space J umpstart Lift up cutting-edge research, case studies and learnings New Ideas Promote network learning around the intersection of “bingo matrix” topical areas gradelevelreading.net / @readingby3rd / #GLReading 5

Featured Presentation #1: Bringing School Home and Boulder Housing Partners Betsey Martens Founder and President Bringing School Home gradelevelreading.net / @readingby3rd / #GLReading 6

Providing Homes Creating Community BHP Families Changing Lives

Bringing School Home: Dream Big

Early Childhood: Bringing School Home EFAA Case Home Visits Parent Support Kindergarten Connections Management and In-home Supports with to Quality Readiness & and Resource Visitation Groups and Preschool Childcare Summer Navigation Programs Classes Enrollment Enrichment Children 0-Kindergarten

Post- College & Secondary Academic Parental Program Socio- Career Scholarships Achievement Engagement Director & Emotional & Preparation , CSA’s & & Summer & One-on-One Life Skills & Service Linkage to Learning Navigation Mentoring Learning On-Campus Resources 1 st to 12 th Grade Support Dreamer Scholars, Bringing School Home

2018 Achievements 98% Preschool Enrollment 95% High School Graduation 75% College Enrollment Providing Homes Bringing School Home Outcomes Creating Community Changing Lives

Featured Presentation #2: ParentChild+ and the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) Oddess Blocker Zachary McNeil Malkia Singleton Ofori-Agyekum Manager of Youth Director of Resident Programs, PHA Relations and Youth Pennsylvania State Director ParentChild+ Programs, PHA gradelevelreading.net / @readingby3rd / #GLReading 13

Public Housing/ParentChild+ Partnerships • Cradle to career supports for families, ensuring that families in residential communities have access to quality early learning experiences, school readiness programming, and employment opportunities. • Hiring home visiting staff from the neighborhood/public housing residents who know the community and are a cultural/linguistic match for the families they visit. • Connecting families with other programming and building community – bringing resources into public housing and ensuring families have opportunities to explore their communities.

Home Visiting & Public Housing: A Powerful Partnership ParentChild+ has been reaching families living in public and subsidized housing for decades. In the past five years, however, it has developed focused, effective partnerships with housing authorities. These partnerships take a number of forms: • Housing authority as facilitator – providing outreach opportunities and space for group sessions, but not financial or implementation support. • Housing authority as model implementer – staff trained in model to work with housing authority residents and Section 8 recipients. • Housing authority as ”purchaser” of a specific number of home visiting slots for families residing in public and subsidized housing from a local implementation partner. • Housing authority as major funding partner for large-scale community implementation, reaching families living in public housing as well as other families in the area around the housing.

Communities with ParentChild+/Housing Authority Connections • Charlotte • King County • Leominster • Philadelphia • Seattle • Somerville • Tampa

North Philadelphia Graduation

• Families enrolled in ParentChild+ in North Philadelphia also have access to monthly literacy-enriched, community-building programming, alternately at a location outside the community (Smith Playground) and in housing authority community centers. • Each session repeats a familiar formula that supports community-building between caregivers and children, and among families: families share a meal together, have a read aloud together, do an activity, and receive a take-home at the end of each visit.

Home visiting focused on school readiness prevents the achievement gap. ParentChild+ graduates ParentChild+ graduates ParentChild+ graduates ParentChild+ participants are 50% more likely to scored 2.5x higher on enter school performing have 30% higher graduation be prepared for social-emotional skills 10 months above their rates than their kindergarten than their peers. chronological age. underserved peers . than their peers.

For additional information on ParentChild+ and Philadelphia Housing Authority www.parentchildplus.org www.pha.phila.gov

Featured Presentation #3: LOU Reads and the Oxford Housing Authority Suzanne Ryals Allison Crain Assistant Superintendent School Attendance Officer–Lafayette County, Lafayette County School Mississippi Department of District Education Tamara Hillmer Teasha Sanders Director of Early Childhood Deputy Director and Reading Development Oxford Housing Authority Community Lead, L.O.U. Reads gradelevelreading.net / @readingby3rd / #GLReading 21

Attendance Matters L.O.U. Reads - MSGLR Community in Lafayette County/City of Oxford Oxford Housing Authority

Relationship Building • Local Attendance Officer partnered with The Oxford Housing Authority • Truancy Referrals • Housing Authority Director had great relationship with families • CGLR Grade-Level Reading Week 2018 • Attended by the L.O.U. Reads Community Lead • Apply Big City Ideas to a Smaller Campaign • Exciting Possibilities of Future Collaboration Began

Getting Involved • Curriculum Nights • Back to School Nights • Must Be Present to Win Raffle • Reed Academy • Free tutoring for children in K-3 rd grade • Preventative Picnics • Breakfast at the Bus Stop

Building A Stronger Community • Family Fun Day • Local Library Summer Reading Programs • Oxford Police Department Activities • Strengthening the relationships between schools and the community • Trust-building • True Partnership for Early School Success

Public Housing: Collaborations and Partnerships to Support Early School Success Questions and Discussion 26

Public Housing: Collaborations and Partnerships to Support Early School Success Participant Closing Question: What is one idea you have after hearing this discussion that you’ll try to implement in the next month to advance efforts to develop collaborative partnerships between subsidized housing providers and local or national partners in support of early school success? 27

Thank You for Joining Us and “GLR Tuesdays” Save the Date • Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Sustainable Scale: Early Childhood Data Visualization and Use in North Carolina – Special Focus on Home Visiting, 2 PM ET • Tuesday, May 28, 2019 GLR Learning Conversation: Moonshot Academy in Indian River, FL, 3 PM ET • Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Science Matters for Relational Health Webinar, 3 PM ET gradelevelreading.net / @readingby3rd / #GLReading 28