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Childhood Development Initiative

Childhood Development Initiative. Meeting needs, making changes, improving outcomes. A Global Gathering for Early Childhood 2013 Early Childhood Ireland October 2013. Overview. Overview of CDI; Outline CDI programmes;

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Childhood Development Initiative

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  1. Childhood Development Initiative Meeting needs, making changes, improving outcomes. A Global Gathering for Early Childhood 2013 Early Childhood Ireland October 2013

  2. Overview • Overview of CDI; • Outline CDI programmes; • Present key findings in relation to parental engagement from the independent evaluations.

  3. CDI • Funded under the Government’s Area Based Response to child poverty (formally funded under the PEIN); • CDI began its work in 2003 in order to develop a strategy to improve the health, safety and learning of the children of Tallaght West and to increase their sense of belonging to their community; • Following a period of community engagement and needs analysis, in 2007 CDI developed 7 community based and evidence-informed programmes (8 independent evaluations).

  4. CDI’s Underlying Principles • To design innovative services which meet the needs of the community and improve outcomes; • To promote high quality delivery; • To support interagency collaboration; • To identify “What Works”; • To inform Government policy and thinking.

  5. Doodle Den Literacy Programme (5-6 years) Early Intervention Speech and Language Therapy Model (3-6 year olds) Early Years Service (2-4 year olds) CDI Interventions Mate-Tricks Pro-social Behaviour Programme (9-10 year olds) Community Safety Initiative Healthy Schools Programme (4-12 year olds) Quality Enhancement Programme Restorative Practice Quality Enhancement Programme

  6. Structures Supporting Parental Engagement Supporting relationships between specialist services and early year’s services and schools. Invite specialist services into early year’s services and schools. Home visits Someone to take responsibility to support interaction with specialist services.

  7. Continued Setting up Care Teams to monitor referrals. Sharing of information - consent. Training and support to staff and parents (SLT). Family days – in school, trips out.

  8. CDI Evaluation Methodology 3 Randomised Controlled Trials 3 Process Evaluations Quasi-Experimental Study Healthy School’s Programme – (TCD) Retrospective Impact Study Speech & Language Therapy

  9. Evaluation Findings Early Years: • The more sessions of a parenting course that parents attended, the more beneficial the home learning environment; • Parent valued having access to the PCF for support. SLT: • On-site delivery and ‘scaffolding’ of parents to engage; • Parents: easier access because of the model’s location and non-stigmatisingexperience for their child; • Parents felt their child would not be bullied in school; • Ripple effect – passing the learning to other children in family.

  10. Findings Continued Doodle Den: • Parent’s report increase in child's reading at home*; • Increase in family library activity (15 percentile points). RP: • Significant improvement in people’s ability to manage conflict with greatest gains made in interagency work and between neighbours. *Secondary Outcomes – approaching significance

  11. Overall Findings • Parent support works best when formal and informal approaches are combined; • Outcomes for children are maximised when parents participate; • Developing capacity amongst staff on parental engagement is central to any strategy; • Managers ability to support and mentor is critical.

  12. Contact us • www.facebook.com/childhooddevelopmentinitiative • http://twitter.com/twcdi • www.twcdi.ie • info@twcdi.ie

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