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Result 2: Hidalgo County Children Ages 0-5 Live, Learn and Play in Safe Environments
% of Kindergarten students assessed as "Vulnerable" in social/emotional maturity
Current Value
8%
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Story Behind the Curve
Factors pushing up on the data
- Recent immigrants or unaccompanied minors
- Dynamic political environment, including cuts to programs
- Number of children not engaging in services at a young age
- Language barriers for parents as well as children
- Availability of funding
- Cultural barriers
- Economy (Inability to engage)
- Food insecurity/basic needs
- An invisible population once integrated
- Media
- Technology
Factors pushing down on the data
- Parent education
- Cultural norms
- Media
- An invisible population once integrated
- Subsidized child care
- Workforce development
- Community events, education
- Faith based partnership services
- Social services
- Availability of funding
Partners
- Faith-based - family support, non-judgemental services, spiritual support
- Food banks - respond to basic needs
- Non-profit - offer community/social services
- State/government - provide grants, resources or technical support
- Media - promote awareness about services and opportunities
- School districts - education
Solutions
Evidence Based Practices
- Parenting programs
- Parents as teachers
- Safe Care M.I.
- 24-7 Dad
- Home Visiting Programs
- T.B.R.I.
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Head Start
Promising Practices
- Family outreach
- Spiritual support
- Alternative response
- Family engagement
No Cost/Low Cost Ideas
- Benefit programs
- Policy change: increase foster care
- Social media - FB, Twitter
- Collaboration at local level
- Advocacy
- Increase parent involvement in schools
Off the Wall Ideas
- Mandated parenting classes for new parents/prenatal
Strategy
- Continue to invest in evidence-based parenting programs, including: Parents as Teachers, Safe Care, M.I., and 24-7 Dad
- Promote benefit programs that help young children access early childhood interventions
- Increase parental involvement in the schools
- Pass a program that requires new parents to participate in parenting classes during prenatal period
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