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The Foundations of School Readiness

Overview

Learning doesn't begin when children start school, it begins at birth. By the time children have turned three, they have already begun to lay the foundation for the skills and abilities that will help them succeed in school. This early path to school readiness unfolds in everyday moments. 
 
This webinar explores the foundations of school readiness by: 
 
-Identifying the core information about how children develop school readiness skills 
 
-Discussing strategies for parents, caregivers, and professionals that can nurture and support these skills in young children.

Best-Practices to Foster School Readiness

Overview

Communities, programs, providers and families play critical roles in helping children get ready for school. How very young children are cared for teaches them how to interact with the world and profoundly shapes who they will become. This webinar will explore best practices to support school readiness for very young children.

Building Infrastructure to Support Cross Sector Integration in Early Childhood Work

Overview

This webinar, hosted by the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink in partnership with ZERO TO THREE, lifts up how Hayward Promise Neighborhood and other communities are building cohesive systems that coordinate and align services to ensure all children enter kindergarten ready to success in school.

Virtual Meeting: Supporting Cross-Sector Integration in Early Childhood Work: Community of Practice Meeting

PBS-Ready to Learn Learning Correlation Guide

Overview

Written by CBP – PBS Ready to Learn Initiative in collaboration with the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, this guide offers a range of high-quality PBS and Ready to Learn resources for children, families, and educators that are organized to correspond with the Promise Neighborhoods results.

The Promise Neighborhoods Program: A Comprehensive Approach to Expanding Opportunity for All Children

Overview

Overviews the Promise Neighborhoods Program, which seeks to create a comprehensive pipeline of educational and community supports to make certain that children reach their full potential.

PNI Black Male Achievement Resource Guide Part 2: Promoting Early Reading Success

Overview

This document is Part II of a series of papers developed to help communities promote black male achievement in their neighborhoods. Part II provides best practices, tools, and resources to support black boys, from birth through third grade, to become successful early readers. In total, this series comprises a guide that is geared toward using the Promise Neighborhoods model to coordinate educational, health, and community supports to help children succeed from the cradle to college to career.

Connecting Young Children to a Medical Home

Overview

A webinar hosted by Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink, provides an overview of the importance of a medical home and strategies that Promise Neighborhoods are using to connect young children to a medical home.

May 2015

All-In Cities: Building an Equitable Economy from the Ground Up

Overview

As cities come back, leaders must bake equity and inclusion into their growth strategies. This framing paper for the All-In Cities initiative, released at the 2015 Equity Summit in Los Angeles, shares cross-cutting practices and an eight-point policy framework to build equitable, thriving cities. See the report here.

May 2015

High-Quality Elder Care for All: Good for Families, Communities, and the Economy

Overview

This issue brief describes how increasing access to high-quality and affordable elder care benefits families, communities, and the economy.

Find other equity briefs here.

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