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Guiding and Preparing Staff in the Mississippi Delta: Empowering One Child At a Time

Guiding and Preparing Staff in the Mississippi Delta: Empowering One Child At a Time Kimberly Triplett, Ph.D. Field Supervisor/Training Coordinator of Mississippi Delta Initiatives Early Childhood Institute Mississippi State University. Mississippi Delta. Mississippi Delta. Famous for

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Guiding and Preparing Staff in the Mississippi Delta: Empowering One Child At a Time

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  1. Guiding and Preparing Staff in the Mississippi Delta: Empowering One Child At a Time Kimberly Triplett, Ph.D. Field Supervisor/Training Coordinator of Mississippi Delta Initiatives Early Childhood Institute Mississippi State University

  2. Mississippi Delta

  3. Mississippi Delta • Famous for • Blues legend B. B. King • Football great Archie Manning • Civil rights leader and advocate Fannie Lou Hamer • Extraordinary actor Morgan Freeman • The Muppets creator Jim Henson • Soul singer Sam Cooke • Famous for • One of the highest crime rates in the state • Extensive drug and alcohol abuse issues • Alarming, increasing rates of teenage pregnancy • Poor economic development • Devastation number of young children living in poverty and their families’ struggle to overcome everyday hardships

  4. The Early Childhood Institute at Mississippi State University promotes high-quality care through a plethora of programs. For over ten years, we have been the forerunners of a relentless fight for improving care and education of children in rural and low-resource areas in the state of Mississippi.

  5. Mississippi Delta Initiatives • Sisterhood program • Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker project (MIHOW) • Delta Promise School • Mississippi Delta Early Learning Corps

  6. The primary focus of the Mississippi Delta Early Learning Corps (MDELC) is to provide a successful professional development model based on individual teacher’s needs, straying from lectures and workshops.

  7. MDELC’s Purpose • Provide guidance to teachers of infants and toddlers • Offer on-site education to teachers • Improve the quality of educational services • Raise the caliber of the overall education of participating teachers

  8. MDELC’s Goals • Improve the quality of early care and education for infants and toddlers so participating children will be more likely to be successful when entering public school • To build capacity of non-traditional infant and toddler providers that serve low-income children

  9. MDELC’s Objectives • Recruiting participants • Providing support and education information • Promoting employment in the state’s technical assistance unit

  10. Discoveries in brain development has resulted in early childhood professionals realizing the need for children to be provided with rich literacy, numeracy, and social/emotional opportunities in high-quality early care and education sites in the early years.

  11. Training Topics • Professionalism • Brain development • Best practices and developmental milestones for infants and toddlers • Diversity and culture of child care in the Mississippi Delta • Right from Birth • Infant Toddler Environmental Rating Scale-Revised • Infant/toddler early learning guidelines

  12. MDELC’s Implications • Local level: More jobs for an underutilized segment of the workforce in an economically depression region of the state • Local level: Quality of care and care in education to support attempts of measurable improvements in terms of teachers’ perceptions and implementation of quality care and improved environmental and children’s outcomes

  13. MDELC’s Implications • State level: Another career path for non-traditional workers • State level: Another technical assistant model being utilized as a vital element in the professional development of infant/toddler providers • Federal level: Program worth replication to improve education and training of infant/toddler providers and to provide employment opportunities

  14. Program Evaluation • Distributing routine feedback forms • Providing multiple, on-site evaluations of the trainees during field experiences • Completing the 12-month, 32 hours-a-week training course • Reviewing attendance records • Being awarded the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential

  15. Project Growth and Assessment • Another training program is currently being funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. • Technicians’ (graduates of the training program) project of working on-site and modeling best practices to infant/toddler providers is funded by the Mississippi Department of Health.

  16. ITERS-R Summary Report Facility: TVCL Address: Greenville, MS County: Washington Pre Test Date: 3.17.09 Post Test Date: 2.5.10

  17. There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way it treats its children.-Nelson MandelaFormer President of South Africa

  18. Kimberly TriplettPost Office Box 601346 Blackjack RoadMississippi State, MS 39762662.325.5116 (office)662.325.5436 (fax)kmt74@colled.msstate.edu

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