Harnessing ARP Funds for Student & Early Childhood Success

February 17th, 2022 | NOW ON-DEMAND

School Districts and local governments are getting unprecedented funding to help them respond to the challenges of the pandemic.   This webinar focuses on two key questions: 

  • How do we get the most value for those dollars?

  • How do we make it easier to actually get results?

Although there are no “silver bullets” to address the complex challenges around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), students’ emotional well-being, and early childhood development, there are many promising and proven “ingredients” that can be part of a successful “recipe” to get breakthrough results.

This webinar focuses on five “secret sauce” ingredients that can enhance and amplify investments to help infants, children, and youth to thrive.

Prior webinars focus primarily on the process, techniques and programs for collaboration to help students thrive, but this webinar emphasizes specific programs or innovations that can be incorporated into those strategies.

  1. Innovative technology that uses singing to accelerate the development of reading skills

  2. Proven approaches to decrease toxic stress and build resilience in youth

  3. Strengthening community-wide approaches for early childhood brain development to reduce disparities in kindergarten readiness

  4. Social-Emotional Learning programs that can be economically scaled up in your community

  5. A high-value technology “dashboard” that improves strategy implementation

If you care about the success of young children and students in your community, and if you want American Rescue Plan dollars to have a lasting impact, then you’ll find a lot of value in this webinar.

You’ll learn about ways to:

  • Engage more community partners in helping students succeed

  • Use the latest brain science to help children overcome obstacles

  • Take advantage of big investments in building tools & technology

  • Improve community teamwork for addressing Social Determinants of Education

  • Deliver the outcomes that ESSER funding is intended to enable

Participants who fill out a post-webinar survey will gain access to a wealth of additional information—including details on each of the “ingredients” covered in this webinar!

 
 

Speakers

kay reed

Kay Reed, a pioneer in the field of relationship education, co-founded The Dibble Institute in 1996. The Dibble Institute’s materials have been used with over 2 million young people since 2006. Dibble’s programs are listed with the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare, the Idaho State Department of Education (CTE), the Colorado School Safety Resource Center, the Tristate Trauma Network, and the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health. Dibble materials are used across the country in schools and a wide variety of community settings.

Ms. Reed has consulted on successful implementation approaches as well as evaluation strategies with many national organizations including Mathematica, Urban Institute, Public Strategies, and the Administration for Children and Families.


carlo franzblau

Carlo Franzblau earned his BA from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Carlo started Electronic Learning Products, Inc. where he developed two award-winning software programs: TUNE into READING to help struggling readers and help aspiring singers. Carlo’s innovations in software technology are protected by three US patents. Since the first implementation of TUNE into READING in a Hillsborough County middle school in the fall of 2006, the program has been used in over 1,000 schools in the United States, The Bahamas, and Australia. More than 30,000 students have improved their reading comprehension level one full year after using the program for just 3 months.


kelly crane

Kelly Crane has worked in the field of prevention and child welfare for nearly 20 years. Her policy activities center on providing leadership, strategic planning, guidance, and support to advance the goals and mission of Prevent Child Abuse America and Healthy Families America. 

Prior to joining PCA America, Kelly worked at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, where her policy and research activities centered on providing consultation and capacity building to states and jurisdictions with a focus of promoting improved outcomes for the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families. Kelly also worked for the National Conference of State Legislatures, where she provided customized facilitation, technical assistance, and testimony to senior state policymakers, addressing policy and systems reform issues related to child welfare. She also brings experience working within a state system involved in program development, program implementation, and evidence-based practices through her tenure at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the Office of the Illinois Attorney General.

Kelly holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and BA in Psychology and Business Administration from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.


Stefany Goradia

Stefany Goradia is Vice President of Analytics for RS21’s Health Lab. She is responsible for RS21 Health Lab’s data tools, analytics development, and overseeing product and services delivery for clients. Stefany works with healthcare leaders to access insights from complex data and visualize and improve health—including financial health, performance health, and population health. She has expertise in blending payer and provider data for population health and revenue initiatives and achieving cost reductions, driving quality improvements, and meeting complex regulatory requirements.


Zoe Hansen-DiBello, PhD

Zoe Hansen-DiBello, Ph.D., Sr. Liaison to the Basic Learning Network. Zoe leads the development and expansion of the Basic Learning Network. She is an experienced systems thinker and mobilize of cross-sector partnerships and has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy.


bill barberg

Bill Barberg, a co-founder of the Population Health Learning Collaborative, is the President and Founder of InsightFormation, Inc., a Minnesota-based consulting and technology company that helps communities, regions, and states address complex social and health issues that require multi-stakeholder collaboration.   His deep background in strategy implementation has been featured in dozens of conference presentations and webinars, and he both organized and hosted the recent virtual summit on Innovations in Naturally Affordable Housing.   He has been a pioneer in many projects that have pushed forward the practices for achieving Collective Impact on a wide range of issues—from addressing the opioid crisis to transforming housing re-developments into Communities of Hope in Detroit.   

Bill was selected to write the chapter on “Implementing Population Health Strategies” for the book, “Solving Population Health Problems through Collaboration” (Routledge, 2017). His recommendations for using strategy maps are featured as a core recommendation in the new report by the National Academy of Public Administration. Bill recently co-authored a paper for the Journal of Change Management on “Leading Social Transformations to Create Public Value and Advance the Common Good”.

 
 

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