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