The Harlem Children's Zone works to create significant, positive opportunities and outcomes for children living in a 24-block area of Central Harlem by helping parents, residents, teachers, and other key stakeholders create a safe learning environment for youth. The Initiative, which began in 1997, supports children's intellectual, emotional, and physical growth from the time their parents are pregnant until the children enter college or the labor force. Philliber Research Associates has evaluated the Baby College and Harlem Gems programs of the Harlem Children's Zone since its inception.
The Brighter Futures Initiative (Hartford Foundation) seeks to increase school readiness and school success among children in Hartford, Connecticut. The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving supports grantees working to improve the quality of child care, the health of children, and the strength of families. For the past decade Philliber Research Associates has documented the impact the Initiative has had helping families meet basic needs, develop parenting skills, build support systems, and helping young children enter school ready to learn and succeed in school during the first three years.
Memphis Child Advocacy Center is a private, non-profit agency that provides community education as well as prevention, intervention, and counseling services to sexually abused children and their families. Philliber Research Associates works with the agency to evaluate the effectiveness of their educational programs as well as the overall impact of counseling services on children's emotional and behavioral adjustment and recovery after the experience of sexual abuse. In prior years PRA also worked with the agency to build leadership and collaborative capacity.
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation/Brighter Futures Initiative Partnership Project is designed to demonstrate the value of simultaneously aligning state, municipal, and local service systems and enhancing the capacities of state government and a major urban center to strategically improve the quality of early childhood services for disadvantaged children and their families. The two year project began in July, 2010. Philliber Research Associates is tracking how the Partnership is enabling the participants to achieve successes they could not attain alone.
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