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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #371 |
| New Parent Information Kit Pilot Project |
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| Requester: |
Ed Feaver |
Organization: |
Whole Child Project |
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| Project Title: |
New Parent Information Kit Pilot Project |
Date Submitted |
12/19/2007 3:54:25 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Rich |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Research underscores the importance of a healthy pregnancy and effective parenting practices during early childhood to prepare a strong foundation for children�s healthy development and readiness for school. A pilot program to distribute New Parent Kits to new and expecting parents in Florida can be supported by a public-private partnership with the long-term goal of ensuring a better and healthier future for Florida�s young children. By increasing parents� knowledge about the importance of prenatal care, healthcare and safety, and developmental benchmarks of young children, the New Parent Kit project aims to increase parenting skills that will yield positive outcomes for Florida�s children. |
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| Recipient: |
Whole Child Project |
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Contact: |
Ed Feaver |
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115 Byrd Road |
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Contact Phone: |
(850) 413-0714 |
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Quincy 32351 |
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Contact email: |
efeaver@health.usf.edu |
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| Counties: |
Leon, Manatee, Martin |
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| Gov't Entity: |
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Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
Yes |
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| Project Description: |
| The New Parents Kit is a model for universal parenting education that can serve new and expecting parents as well as the providers of the more than half-million children born each year in Florida. Distributed to parents and their providers through home visits, prenatal care, parenting classes, child care, WIC, hospitals, and other programs, the Kit will work synergistically with the Whole Child program in pilot counties to ensure the efficacy of its distribution as well as the implementation of a quantitative and qualitative study to gauge the program�s effectiveness. Funding will help to develop materials that include:
Information addressing prenatal care, child development, and health and safety; Special focus on early brain development, literacy, quality childcare, access to healthcare/KidCare, and smoking prevention/cessation; Up-to-date information on providers in the pilot communities; Basic information, what parents can do to get more information on multiple issues; A public awareness campaign in the pilot counties to increase awareness of and support for the New Parent Kit program and develop future partners to sustain it; The development and implementation of a pre and post evaluation of a sample of parents participating in the program to gauge its effectiveness in increasing parenting knowledge and skills
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| A New Parents Kit will help increase the level of parents� knowledge about how to better care for their children. Pre-and post evaluation surveys will help gauge changes in parents� attitudes towards their children�s well-being and safety. The evaluation will also measure gains in parents� knowledge about child development benchmarks including cognitive as well as social and emotional development. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$300,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$300,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Operations |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
None |
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Cash Amount |
$ |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Pew Partnership Study, 2003, "What Makes a Solution?" |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Broward Legislative Delegation 12/20/07 |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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No |
