World Café Ideas
November 4, 2010
What Do Our Students Need: Birth to Five Years
Existing Services / New Solutions
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? City Buses – do they run in all sections of
our city where needed?
Parenting solutions – programs that give
additional
Title I Preschool (4)
Book a month program
Parents As Teachers (23)
Title I (3)
Parent Skills and Progress
Books in Buddy Pack (3)
PAT and preschools for all families
After school nutrition
Need For-profits to engage the needed
support
VAC (Voluntary Action Center) – child
seats, cribs
Pre-natal care – are they being accessed?
Imaginary Library – Dolly Parton Books for
Birth to 5 (5)
Safe Kids Coalition (2)
Head Start (12)
MAC Students want to help but have issues
identifying activities – could CPS match?
Title I Preschool (3)
Hospital Social Services try to reach out to
low income students. Accessible whether
utilized.
Assistance League – New Mom Kits
Hospital Social Services > PAT
More involvement by the University MO –
More information about which projects to
become involved in
Columbia Public Library
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World Café Ideas: Birth to Five Years, Existing Services/New Solutions
Social Services in hospitals; reach out to low
income families
Football games
University students
Utilizing college students to help
Lending Library (2)
More preschool
WIC
Lutheran Family Services (3)
Mandatory preschool
Increase funding for Parents As Teachers
Parents mentoring younger parents
Go back to kindergarten screening, so
parents know the expectations of what their
children need to know
Match retired people with those in need of
mentors
Partner with hospitals to teach new parents
about education needs of their children
All day kindergarten
Dolly Parton Imagination Library – United
Way (5)
Mentoring resource
Adult Literacy
Tutoring and library program
Set expectations early
Preschool for all
Form partnerships between Columbia Public
Schools & other agencies to help parents
Grouping kids in knowledge or abilities
levels
Le Leche League
Faith based churches may be able to
encourage early participation
First Chance For Children (2)
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Parents as teachers in the home
Monthly play dates for moms to create selfsupporting parent groups
“Mini Field Trips” because school
competency results from exposure to social,
cultural activities
Ready kindergarten
Mini classes for preschools
New solutions – Birth to 5 Parents < > safe
More Title I Preschool
Parents As Teachers for ALL – instill
responsibility
Setting and communicating expectations
with parents, teachers, and students
Literacy education for parents
District supported Parents As Teachers
Program
Work with employers to provide support
Repeat World Café on micro-level
Work with school community, faith
organizations, other community groups.
These mini “World Café’s” can help
generate both awareness and answers from
those directly in the Gap
Cigarette tax to support Head Start
Community support by making small groups
of families
Family match programs
Try to do your best to go tot next level of
school
First step to child is EDUCATION
PAT great! (2)
Title I / preschool opps for kids
Dolly Parton’s Book a Month Program (5)
Limited time PAT’s
Mentors of successful parents available
Hospitals
First Steps (2)
Agencies who help at Lutheran Family
Services
Health resources
Preschool
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World Café Ideas: Birth to Five Years, Existing Services/New Solutions
Early Childhood Programs (2)
MO Preschool Project (3)
Lutheran Children and Family Services (3)
Refund Parents As Teachers!
Lend and Learn – 207 Park Ave. (3)
Childcare/ support for staying in school
Issue bad role model – perhaps not in public
school
School could do preschool
Start education at 0
Transportation
Models for instilling high expectation
Excellent Public School System
PAT – huge cuts were a crime
Preschools
Churches offer services to new mothers –
who does and who does not?
Smart & A good student is cool
What resources are available?
What educational opportunities or resources
are available?
Spend ARRA funds
Recruit families in hospital at birth
Adopt families for activities and social
outings
Financial aid for preschool
Wisconsin (worst bunch) High Schoolers all
went through parent shadowing with other
families with young children – very
powerful program
United Way
What tutoring opportunities exist
“Parent Shadowing” (suggest from RB
Elem. Principal)
Parents As Teachers funding needs to be
fully funded > Class instruction
Bring PAT into the school
Individual (home visit) program
Parenting classes for preschoolers offered in
the schools
CPS Preschools
Child support for young mothers
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Suggestion - Parent shadowing program for
high school students
Housing Authority lending library for
parents – books + educational “lend n’
learn” toys
We need positive “gangs”
Book mobiles
Parents As Teachers must be supported
Lend & Learn on Park Ave – provides books
and toys for kids
Invite parents to come “Head Start” to have
a bridging to elementary school
Put a (HSC) with qualifying families to
pairing families that would be good mentors
Library’s educational games instead of TV
Community involvement
Dolly Parton Imagination Library – sign up/
hospitals $30, books sent
Parents as Teachers birth to 3 years
Head Start / Title I = great programs with
waiting list (how many eligible get to use?)
New policies for childcare subsidy funding
Family match programs – Teach affluent
people how to work with low income
Promise Neighborhood Institute > “Planning
a Promise Neighborhood”
More lobbying for programs
Reach out to church groups
Ways to match families who need childcare
services
Mentors for adults to help them know about
services
Food backpacks
Cigarette tax
Family “match” – connect families across
Missouri
Need parents as teachers
207 Park Avenue, Lend & Learn – age
appropriate toys
Role models
Dial “211” number – United Way (5)
Churches (3)
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World Café Ideas: Birth to Five Years, Existing Services/New Solutions
Voluntary Action Services
Child Care Aware of Missouri
“Achievement through Adversity”
Recognition Ceremony – Mary Rodriguez
(573) 529-2171
Find a way to make parents to be
accountable
Book Program
Use churches and other community
resources to spread the word
Increase home care!
Mentors for adults, sort of “community
coaches.” Use them to help as
support/resource
Adult Education
Bridge between school levels ECE > K-5 >
6-7 > 8-12 to ease concerns with parents and
kids
Teachers as Parents Program
Preschool (3)
Special education
Neighborhood daycares for free
Spread parenting info to a variety of groups
through churches, health dept., and child
cares, etc.
Preschool in school!
High expectations
Parents As Teachers (costs money however)
Head start children with disabilities
Parents As Teachers – but $ out
Safety/ Health Services Program
Adopt a Family for Holidays
New solutions = ELL language emersion
program
Field Early Childhood Program
Every school having preschool
Car seat
Toys for Lend and Learn
Strong language emersion program
WIC
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Develop “Good Mom” role models in
community & neighborhoods – not white
middle class women
Parents As Teachers going into homes and
teaching families developmental activities,
connections to resources in the community,
not just educational stuff
More extensive program beyond First Steps
Someone to talk to non-biased
Learn to react to communication of a child
Families inviting other families over to lend
support
Head Start – Dad’s Program
Bundles for Babies
Adopt a Family
Energy Assistance
Lend and Learn
CRIB – Lutheran Family Services (3)
Big Brothers + Big Sisters
Nationwide medical assistance
Head Start – increase in father participation
Continue home visits for Parents As
Teachers
Family Advocates
VAC Services
University of Missouri Education
Department, Psych Department, Counseling,
School Psych
Family need advocates – confidential
Home School Communicators – NEED
Parents As Teachers – Could parents pay for
services?
Parent Link
Day Care Association –would create a
stronger link between in home day care and
public schools, so preschoolers could be
better prepared for kindergarten
Public schools should assist day care centers
so that they can establish pre-school reading
programs
More parent coaching
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World Café Ideas: Birth to Five Years, Existing Services/New Solutions
State mandated preschools offered through
Columbia Public Schools
“Parent University” various settings and
venues
Must look at non-traditional
TIMES/Schedules to reach disadvantaged
parents
Title I Preschool model allows 4 days of
instruction while providing the 5th day for
parent/teacher interaction – how can we
extend?
Parent Link (MU)
Stephen’s College (2)
Kids on Campus (MU) (2)
FHC Health Department
W.I.C.
Benefit to CPS employees – childcare
Parent and child go to school together
Preschool Co-Ops (2)
Boys & Girls Club
MIZZOU Black Men’s Initiative
Urgent Care
Public Library
Collaborative?
Government subsidy of essential programs
is needed to make affordable for all
Create experiential learning opportunities
Networking / mentoring parent to parent
Positive media articles
Cigarette Tax!!!
Continue Head Start case management into
grades
Integrate poor families with more affluent
folks
“Family Match”
Put Parents As Teachers Programming into
Channel 16
Title I mandating preschool, the preschools
need curriculum
PAT – access to resources
Certified early childhood teachers
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Solution – churches should invest more in
daycare opportunities
Hospitals to provide training to parents
Quality preschools
Church Groups
WIC
Title I – Special Education
Very prepared for kindergarten because of
Title In Preschool (parent perspective)
83 agencies
Home School Communicators
Strong education background
Network program go beyond “friendship”
Read to children ex = Nora Stewart
Real life
Fund for busing
Education is the way out of poverty
Read more, adults involved in kids lives
Libraries and bookmobiles
Project Reach + groups that mode for
childcare providers
Parent Education Committee – classes
Imagination Library
PAT for High School moms
CRIB @ Douglas
Early Childhood Development at RB High
for Student Parents
World Café Ideas: Birth to Five Years, Existing Services/New Solutions