Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development Best Babies Zone
Building Blocks CollaborativeMarch 29, 2013
Today: Early Childhood & Neighborhood Economic Development
in the Best Babies Zone
• Overview: Economic Development and the life course perspective
• Photovoice
• Panel
• Discussion
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:1. Experiences during critical times in development can have an impact
much later in life.- Pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, early childhood, adolescence
2. Impacts of these experiences accumulate over time.
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
Your economic environment shapes your health
“Early Childhood Development is grossly under-funded”
“investment in early childhood development yields 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
Telluride Summit – September 2009: “…to make early childhood investment an integral part of rebuilding our economy to achieve workforce competitiveness and fiscal sustainability.”
America’s economic well-being depends on early childhood investment
Healthy Food
Education
Residents
Parks and Activities
Planning
Housing
Building Blocks:
We each have a role
Childcare
Preschool
Transportation
Policy Makers
Jobs
Safe Neighbor-
hoods
Clean Air
Medical Care
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
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.
Best Babies Zone: First Steps
• Resident Leadership Development
• Mom’s Club & Community Events
• Neighborhood Economic
Development
• Early Childhood Hub
• Media & Political Engagement
• Measurement
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?
Antoinette McCullough
•What’s the story behind this photo?
Latrice Casey
•What’s the story behind this photo?
Panel
Welcome!• Mariela Cedeño, Mandela Marketplace• Jeff Butler, AnewAmerica• Hannah Dithrich, Grameen Bank• Naldo Peliks, Centro Community Partners