In Family Homeless Shelters: The Self-Assessments for Child Development Support

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Building Early Links for Learning (BELL)

Joe Willard

16 episodes

4 days ago

BELL is a project of the People's Emergency Center. It bridges together Philadelphia's homeless family shelter system and early childhood education systems to ensure that children ages 0-5 who experience homelessness strengthen their resiliency. BELL promotes accessing to Head Start, high quality child care, home visiting, early intervention, and other proven strategies that address positive child development. BELL works with the Children's Work Group for Early Childhood, a discussion group with the participation of various systems supporting young homeless children.

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In Family Homeless Shelters: The Self-Assessments for Child Development Support

Building Early Links for Learning (BELL)

56 minutes 53 seconds

5 years ago

In Family Homeless Shelters: The Self-Assessments for Child Development Support

We discuss with Marsha Basloe of the Child Care Services Association of North Carolina and Dr. Sara Shaw of Child Trends the usage and effects of the 'Early Childhood Self-Assessment Tool for Family Shelters.'

The Self Assessment was pioneered by Dr. Grace Whitney in Connecticut, promoted widely by Ms. Basloe during her work at the Administration for Children and Youth, and validated by Dr. Shaw.

Philadelphia's Building Early Links for Learning (BELL) and 15 emergency/transitional housing programs used the self assessment tool starting in 2017, working with Dr. Shaw and others (JJ Cutuli and Janette Herbers) to operationalize the tool and to measure effects.

PEC's Sarah Vrabic guides the discussion with Ms. Basloe and Dr. Shaw at the Children's Work Group Early Childhood meetings. These are monthly gatherings of staff from homeless shelters, public health centers, early learning programs, hospitals, local and state government, and other networks.