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Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development Best Babies Zone

Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development Best Babies Zone. Building Blocks Collaborative March 29, 2013. Today: Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development in the Best Babies Zone. Overview: Economic Development and the life course perspective Photovoice Panel

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Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development Best Babies Zone

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  1. Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development Best Babies Zone Building Blocks Collaborative March 29, 2013

  2. Today: Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development in the Best Babies Zone • Overview: Economic Development and the life course perspective • Photovoice • Panel • Discussion

  3. How inequities get into the body:The Life Course Perspective How do “place” and opportunity impact your health? • “Toxic” stress can wreak havoc in the body. Research shows: • Experiences during critical times in development can have an impact much later in life. - Pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, early childhood, adolescence • Impacts of these experiences accumulate over time.

  4. Your economic environment shapes your health Photos: Thomas Hawk, funkandjazz, Susan Decker (flickr), city-data.com,, FYI youth, IPOP, www.home-lover.net, Food to Families, CCNI

  5. Your economic environment shapes your health

  6. “Early Childhood Development is grossly under-funded” “investment in early childhood developmentyields an extraordinary return, far exceeding the return on most investments, private or public…. In the future any proposed economic development list should have early childhood development at the top.” — Arthur Rolnick, Director of Research, and Robert Grunewald, Regional Economic Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

  7. America’s economic well-being depends on early childhood investment • Telluride Summit – September 2009: “…to make early childhood investment an integral part of rebuilding our economy to achieve workforce competitiveness and fiscal sustainability.”

  8. Planning Childcare Medical Care Jobs Healthy Food Building Blocks: We each have a role Clean Air Parks and Activities Policy Makers Education Housing Preschool Safe Neighbor-hoods Residents Transportation

  9. Best Babies Zone • Vision: All babies are born healthy, into communities that enable them to thrive and reach their full potential • Mission: To give every baby born in a Best Babies Zone the best chance in life

  10. Best Babies Zone: Castlemont Neighborhood There is a 13 year difference in life expectancy between a child born in Piedmont and a child born in Castlemont.

  11. Best Babies Zone: First Steps • Resident Leadership Development • Mom’s Club & Community Events • Neighborhood Economic Development • Early Childhood Hub • Media & Political Engagement • Measurement

  12. Photovoice Project Photovoice Question If you had the opportunity to talk to city leaders about economic conditions in your neighborhood, what would you take pictures of that would tell that story?

  13. Antoinette McCullough • What’s the story behind this photo?

  14. Latrice Casey • What’s the story behind this photo?

  15. Panel Welcome! • Mariela Cedeño, Mandela Marketplace • Jeff Butler, AnewAmerica • Hannah Dithrich, Grameen Bank • Naldo Peliks, Centro Community Partners

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