Agenda for Children

The city seats program increased access to 200 quality infant and toddler care seats in 20 childcare centers across the city. The city seats program paid for enrollment of 200 students at a rate of $1,000.00 per student per month, which amounted to $12,000 per student for 12 months. The program improved quality by providing educational coaching, mental health consultation, and professional development to participating child care centers. The program also provided wrap-around services to Children and families including developmental screening, hearing and vision screening, and social work. City seats maintained high enrollment and attendance supported working families (60% of families were working and/or in school shifted to virtual platforms to provide over 300 hours of coaching during the pandemic), provided high-quality professional development with emphasis on child social-emotional learning and staff self-care improved developmental screening and referral, resulting in increased enrollment of Children with special needs to 6%, and added social work services for parents and staff.agenda for Children played a key role in creating new seats at early learning sites for low-income Children birth to age 3 while improving the quality of early childhood education programming which lead to building the capacity of local communities to meet the needs of our youngest learners. Agenda dispersed funding that expanded high-quality preschool programs in high-need communities throughout our service area.

Agenda for Children provided differentiated coaching, which is high quality coaching for child care staff; group training that was developed and delivered by content experts; and acted as a centralized source of child care information and supported families and the industry within their communities. Agenda for Children and partners provide instructional coaches to each center participating in the program, who support and develop each teacher with noeen city seats students in their classroom; conduct assessments in the classrooms of the environment (iters) and of the interactions between the teachers and students (class). Agenda also played a major role in facilitating the provision of emergency respite care during hurricanes and the pandemic.