Data and Collaboration Create More Strong Starts for Kids
Overview
Neighborhood-level data revealed pockets of poverty in Norwalk, Connecticut, and informed strategies to improve outcomes for children beginning at birth.
Equipped with tools from a StriveTogether community of practice, Norwalk ACTS and local partners have enabled parents to support their children’s early development. With a goal of ensuring that children enter kindergarten ready to learn, they engaged 23 community partners to complete developmental screenings with children and their families.
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Communitywide collaboration leads to impact
The number of children in the community who started kindergarten ready to learn increased from 67% (2018-19) to 74% (2020-21).
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Support at every step guides families
Norwalk ACTS’s community partners provide tiered interventions to ensure that children are on track.
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Data ensures strategies are effective
The team studied data to better design interventions and to understand the challenges faced by parents of young children.
You can’t tell the story of how Norwalk’s children are developing without having a system in place for collecting, analyzing and reviewing ASQ data. Across sectors, data tell the story of whether children in Norwalk are developing and, if not, what we can do to help.
Mary Kate Locke, Vice President, Youth & Family Empowerment of Family & Children’s Agency
Norwalk, Connecticut
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