CAP FAMILY ADVANCEMENT STUDY (CAP FAST)

TERESA ECKRICH SOMMER, CO-PI

ACF’S HEAD START UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS:

DUAL-GENERATION APPROACHES GRANTEE MEETING

MARCH 9-10, 2015

Northwestern University’s Implementation and Effectiveness Study of

CAP Tulsa’s Two-Generation Program, CareerAdvance®

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

PI: P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale

Northwestern University

Co-PI: Teresa Eckrich Sommer

Northwestern University

Co-PI: Hirokazu Yoshikawa

New York University

Co-I: Terri Sabol

Northwestern University

Co-I: Amanda Morris

Oklahoma State University

Co-I: Monica Barczak

Community Action Project of Tulsa

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Columbia University

Davis Jenkins

Columbia University

Christopher King

University of Texas at Austin

Jenny Wittner

Women Employed

Steven Dow

Karen Kiely

Brandy Holleyman

Valerie Osgood-Sutton

Lindsey Cabaniss

Karissa Coltman

Cindy Decker

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

PRESENTATION OVERVIEW Head Start Partnership

Development of CAP Tulsa’s Two-Generation

Approach

NU Theory of Change & Hypothesis

CAP FAST: Research Approach & Design

Year One: Innovations & Implementation

Learnings

HEAD START PARTNERSHIP: CAP TULSA

Comprehensive anti-poverty agency with an explicit two-generation mission

Head Start/Early Head Start provider (1998/2001)

2000 families in 13 Head Start centers, Tulsa County

NU-CAP Tulsa partnership since 2010

DEVELOPMENT OF CAP TULSA'S TWO-GENERATION APPROACH

CAP TULSA’S TWO-GENERATION APPROACH

Taken years to become fully two-generational

Approach uses Head Start as a platform for adding parent-centered services

Two-Generation Definition: Service quality and intensity

TWO-GENERATION PROGRAMS

Simultaneously implement parent & child education

Parent Child

HEAD START: TWO-GENERATION PLATFORM

Add parent education & career training to ECE platform

Intensive supports in-house

Community partnerships essential, not just referral

Importance of employers, improved labor market outcomes

CAREERADVANCE® EDUCATION TRACKS

Career Coaches & Small Peer Cohorts

Financial Incentives &

In-Kind Assistance

Employers

Elementary Schools

Local

Colleges

Adult Basic Ed, ELL,

GED

Head Start, Pre-K, &

CareerAdvance®

KEY INNOVATIVE ELEMENTS: CAREERADVANCE®

Sector-based

Stackable training

Coaching and peer cohorts

Incentives and in-kind assistance

Employment supports

Contextualized curriculum

CAREERADVANCE® NURSING CAREER LADDER

NU’S TWO-GENERATION THEORY OF CHANGE & HYPOTHESIS

TWO-GENERATION PROGRAMS

Child• Early childhood education

centers• Pre-K to 3rd-grade

programs

Parent• AA and BA degrees• Certification & job

training• Career exploration & skill

building

PARENTS’ EDUCATION AND CHILD LEARNING

Parent Education

ChildOutcomes

Family Income Positive parent-child interactions

Increased cognitive stimulation

Gennetian, Magnuson, & Morris, 2008; Sastry & Pebly, 2012; Crosnoe & Kalil, 2010; Kalil, Ryan, & Corey, 2012; Guryan, Hurst, & Kearney, 2008

Reduced stress

THEORY OF CHANGE: SHORT-TERM

Short-Term Outcomes• Improved cognitive & social

development

• Higher attendance

• Kindergarten readiness

• Motivation to pursue education & careers

• Defined education & career goals

• Higher rates of adult basic education

• Higher rates of education & career training enrollment

Child

Parent

Two-Generation Programs

Early Childhood Centers

• High-Quality Classrooms

• Family Support ServicesEducation/ Workforce

Development• High-Quality

Community Colleges

• High-Quality Job Training Programs

• Employers

THEORY OF CHANGE: MID-TERM

Mid-Term Outcomes• Higher motivation & school

engagement

• Academic success in elementary school

• Social competence

• Higher rates of persistence in education & job training

• Improved job training skills & career development

• Higher employment rates & wage growth

Child

Parent

Two-Generation Programs

Early Childhood Centers

• High-Quality Classrooms

• Family Support ServicesEducation/ Workforce

Development• High-Quality

Community Colleges

• High-Quality Job Training Programs

• Employers

THEORY OF CHANGE: LONG-TERM

Long-Term Outcomes• Increased high school

graduation rates

• Increased training & postsecondary education attainment

• High expectations & positive future orientation

• Stable career

• Family-supporting wage

• Greater life stability

• Better-functioning family system

Child

Parent

Two-Generation Programs

Early Childhood Centers

• High-Quality Classrooms

• Family Support ServicesEducation/ Workforce

Development• High-Quality

Community Colleges

• High-Quality Job Training Programs

• Employers

THEORY BEHIND TWO-GENERATION PROGRAMS

Hypothesis: Dual-generation

programs will have a greater

impact on child well- being

than early childhood education

alone

RESEARCH APPROACH & DESIGN

RESEARCH DESIGN

Randomized control trial using waitlist

Total sample: 300 parents

150 treatment, 150 control

Randomization occurs within each

pathway/track

All families receive access to Early Head Start & Head Start services

Treatment group receives access to CareerAdvance® including education & employment services

Control group will not have access to CareerAdvance® for up to two years

RANDOMIZATION

Parent and staff focus groups & interviews Field notes & memos to CAP Tulsa

Observational data of staff-parent interactions Individual coaching, Family Support, and peer

cohort meetings

Administrative data from CAP Tulsa

IMPLEMENTATION STUDY: METHODS

YEAR ONE: INNOVATIONS & IMPLEMENTATION LEARNINGS

CAP TULSA’S TWO-GENERATION INNOVATION

Organizational identity

Service intensity & equivalence

Coordinated scheduling

Curriculum Alignment: Parent & child

INNOVATION: ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY

Redesigned marketing & recruitment (Family Handbook, website)

New messaging in child intake & enrollment

Teacher in-service training on two-generation strategies

INNOVATION: SERVICE INTENSITY & EQUIVALENCE

Parallel parent & child goal-setting with new Family Success Plan

Coordinated Service Delivery: Child’s teacher, FSS, career coach, & site director

Designated FSS & career coach by educational pathway (Skill, College, Career)

INNOVATION: COORDINATED PARENT & CHILD SCHEDULING

I like how they’ve made the program fit around the youngest child’s schedule... how they’ve tailored it to fit around those hours, which really would tailor around all school-age children’s hours. So only during clinical times do you have to really worry about before and after care. But for the most part, all of us can still take the kids, kiss them goodbye, do our thing, and then be

there to pick them up.

INNOVATION: PARENT & CHILD CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Monthly brainstorming meeting: Pre-K C&I and CareerAdvance® team

Use of child classroom materials & objectives for parent English instruction

Improve parent understanding of home visits & parent-teacher conferences

PARENT-CHILD CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

PARENT-CHILD CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

CAP TULSA’S TWO-GENERATION CHALLENGES

Length of time?

Who to serve?

How to fund?

SOLUTIONS: LENGTH OF TIME?

Start Earlier: Add Early Head Start to Head Start

Extend: Link to elementary (e.g., Pre-K to 3rd grade)

SOLUTIONS: WHO TO SERVE?

Family Support Services add supplemental survey to Family Needs Assessment/Family Success Plan

Serve parents where they are with range of educational pathways

SOLUTIONS: HOW TO FUND?

Child: Braided Pre-K and Head Start funding

Parent: Health Professions Opportunity Grant

(HPOG), ends fall 2015

New Opportunities Less Intensive Services: Career exploration &

skill development

Waivers for differentiated FSS roles

PARENT VOICES: OUR BEST AMBASSADORS

When you’re putting the kind of effort into, you know, helping the families raise their kids and educate their kids, you know, it only makes sense to…to make sure that the parents themselves have the…the abilities and the capabilities to…to do what they need to do to…Putting all this effort into the kids, but you want to be able to maintain that as they grow up. So, you know, what better

way to make sure that the parents know how to, you know, either grow with them, learn with them, and to…to raise them?CareerAdvance® Participant

Father