Published Article: A Coaching Model to Promote Economic Mobility and Child Developmental Outcomes
The American Academy of Pediatrics published an article authored by EMPath's Charlie Homer & Ashley Winning and Washington State DCYF's Kevin Cummings exploring the impacts of Mobility Mentoring on economic mobility and child developmental outcomes over the period of year in DCYF's ECEAP programs. Stay tuned for a digestable summary, but if you're interested in the full published article, you can read it on their site.
When comparing children whose parents participated in MM to children whose parents opted not to participate, involvement in MM was associated with significantly greater spring TSG scale scores on the literacy and math domains, controlling for baseline TSG scores and demographic, risk, and programmatic variables. Children in these sites whose parents received MM were also 60% more likely to meet or exceed WHEs in all 6 learning domains.