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You won’t find a better return than HEALTH AND

investing in early childhood education. DEVELOPMENT

Our community ensures that
Arthur Rolnick, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
children are getting the

4,062 total professional resources they need to grow
development hours 4,062
acquired by educators up healthy and to remove
in 2019-2020 through
Collaboration programming obstacles to learning

as early as possible. By
building and maintaining
400+ students were Preschool as Preparation: A kinder-
impacted by teacher 400+ garten-ready child has the foundational strong partnerships with
equity training social-emotional, physical, and academic
skills needed to transition into a formal early childhood, pediatric,
school setting. Kids need to be ready for
kindergarten, but kindergarten needs to and community sites, we’re
be equally ready for kids. We’re connect-
The 2020 Symposium expanding our collective impact.
held in January was 446 ing the complex systems that must work
attended by a record together to establish that foundation here
446 attendees in Oak Park and River Forest.
• 30 early childhood, pediatric, and community sites trained to
administer developmental screenings, facilitate meaningful discussions with
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EARLY LEARNING Through parents and families about screening results, and support families to follow up on 10% increase, to 1969
meeting children’s needs. 1,969 in developmental
a robust calendar of professional or social-emotional
• Screenings twice a year across our community administered by our Hearing and screenings
development for preschool Vision Screening Technician.

teachers and caretakers, we • Community vision and hearing screening events for all children not enrolled in
center-based childhood programming.
are strengthening the success 61% 61% of children who were
referred due to concerns
identified through the
and quality of the preschool Growing Well: Screenings are just one hearing screening were
piece of the puzzle. The Collaboration
classroom experience. also strengthens health practitioners’ assessed and received treatment
awareness of early childhood develop-
• mental issues and services by meeting
regularly. Making community resources 52% of children who were
Annual symposium “Embrace the Mess: 52%
The Complexities of Early Childhood” more readily available for health care referred due to concerns
providers enriches the lives of the children identified through the
• they care for. vision screening were
assessed and received treatment
Monthly educator-facing COVID-19 updates via an
interactive monthly newsletter
•
2,051 Ages and Stages
Bi-monthly meetings for early childhood 2,051 Questionnaire screenings
directors and family childcare leaders and the completed between July
publicly-funded preschool committee 2019 and June 2020