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Born to Read Programs
Early Head Start Transition Program (P.E.A.C.E.,Inc.)
Head Start staff work together to make sure that parents and children feel supported and have the information they need to make a successful transition to school.
Early Reading First (Syracuse City School District)
ERF is a U.S. Department of Education funded project aimed at providing preschoolers with child-centered, scientifically-based reading instruction which will prepare them to enter kindergarten with the necessary language, cognitive and early reading skills.
Even Start Family Literacy Program (OCM BOCES & Children’s Consortium)
This family literacy project integrates early childhood education, adult literacy (adult basic and secondary-level education and instruction for English language learners), parenting education, and interactive parent and child literacy activities for low-income families with parents who are eligible for services under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act and their children from birth through age 5.
“Kindergarten, Here We Come…” A Readiness Guide: (Child Care Solutions)
This education tool is designed specifically to provide resources and activities that local parents and caregivers of pre-kindergarten children can use to prepare their young students for success in school. In 2008, with assistance from the Central NY Community Foundation, Child Care Solutions distributed more than 9,900 copies of the guide though local child care centers, family child care homes, nursery schools, Head Start sites, school districts and public libraries. An on-line version is available on the Child Care Solutions website.
Onondaga County Department of Health
Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), a home visitation program which has already been listed as a "Proven" program on this site provides evidence of effectiveness in a new study of participants nine years after the children were born. The program summary has recently been updated with results from a follow-up study which found that women enrolled in NFP were significantly less likely to have given birth to low birth weight infants, had fewer subsequent births, and experienced longer relationships with their current partners.
Partners In Learning - MANOS Early Education Program
"Manos" Early Childhood/Family Center is a bilingual English/Spanish child care center which assists parents who are enrolled at the West Side Learning Center. MANOS is a program for Latino children ages birth through four years old.
Reach Out and Read (SUNY Upstate Medical)
Pediatricians and other clinicians are trained in the three part ROR model in an effort to promote pediatric literacy: ROR serves over 4,000 children and their families in Onondaga Co.
1. At every well-child check-up, doctors and nurses encourage parents to read aloud to their young children, and offer age-appropriate tips and encouragement. Parents who may have difficulty reading are encouraged to invent their own stories to go with picture books and spend time naming objects with their children.
2. Pediatricians, family physicians and nurses give every child between the ages of six months and five years a new, developmentally appropriate, children’s book to keep.
3. In literacy rich waiting room environments, often with volunteer readers, parents and children learn about the pleasures and techniques of looking at books together.
Ready, Set, Parent! (Children’s Consortium and Crouse Hospital)
Three key components, Parenting, Literacy, and Health & Wellness reaches parents in three ways:
1. Hospital Coordinators visit parents of newborns in the hospital within 48 hours of giving birth and respond to parents’ immediate concerns;
2. While in the hospital, parents are invited to a one-hour Newborn Class to learn more about their babies’ overall development, including literacy awareness. Children’s books are given to Newborn Class participants and parents are strongly encouraged to read to their babies.
3. Parents are invited to participate in the Ready, Set, Parent! eight-week Workshop Series designed to increase parental knowledge, attitude, and confidence.
Touchpoints (United Way Success By 6, Onondaga County Dept of Health, Child Care Solutions)
Touchpoints Approach™ is a practical approach for enhancing the competence of parents and building strong family-child relationships from before birth through the earliest years, laying the vital foundation for children’s healthy development.
SCSD-Universal Prekindergarten Program (UPK) - Initiated in 1998, UPK has grown from 230 students to its present 552. Currently, UPK classes are operated in 26 locations around the City including 7 elementary schools, 3 Head Start sites, 10 child care centers, 5 nursery schools and a privately operated inclusive special education preschool.
Second Step Program (Child Care Solutions)
Second Step is a violence prevention program designed to help pre-school and young school-age children learn pro-social skills and reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior. Increased social-emotional competence sets the foundation for children’s group participation helps to create a classroom culture that supports learning. Teaching staff are able to spend more time supporting children’s learning, exploration and play and less time on classroom management and refereeing conflicts between children.
Last updated: March 25, 2010