Alignment Rockford

Throughout the second year, our initiative has achieved significant milestones in engaging various community stakeholders through equity- focused planning and execution aimed at enhancing kindergarten readiness. Our efforts have involved a variety of programs, strategic partnerships, and educational campaigns designed to enrich early childhood experiences and provider engagement. This report outlines the accomplishments, changes to the operational plans, and support needed from iafc for continued success. Year 2 achievements community engagement and educational programs: successfully conducted multiple community-focused events including: edi how are the children event no small matter community panel and film viewing the state were in report sharing countdown to kindergarten and week of the young child provider training and outreach: held several provider-focused training sessions and created three new action teams. Implemented the basics insights program and launched an extensive provider kick-off to reinforce the basics framework. Strategic partnerships: established and deepened relationships with key community health systems (uw health systems and mercy health) to distribute over 1,000 ready to learn with the basics take-home kits. Partnered with rosecrance to create a single point of entry (spoe) which has been integrated into the kits. Educational materials distribution: distributed educational materials, including basics activity books and basics insights platforms, reaching over 3,000 families with an engagement hope of 1,000 families through our online platforms. Community resource development: contributed to the creation of a local resources landing page for families with young children, featuring developmental tips and basics information prepared by early childhood experts. Reflections and strategic adjustments given the experiences and outcomes of the past year, the following strategic adjustments are planned for the upcoming year: increase focus on hospital partnerships: strengthening our collaborations with local hospitals to expand the reach of our educational kits. Enhance parental engagement: intensifying efforts to recruit and involve parent co-leads to foster deeper community buy-in and support. Elevate community organization collaboration: amplify the understanding and utilization of edi domains by local organizations to better measure and enhance community impacts. Support needed from iafc for continued success and scaling of our initiatives, we seek the following support from iafc: