The New Neighborhood: Recent Episodes
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Welcome to the New Neighborhood, a limited series podcast that explores some of the dramatic changes taking place across the country as people work to reinforce a sense of community, support young children and families, and work to build equity within communities. Each episode features emerging innovations that will create a society where all children and their families can thrive.She then closes, saying come back to and learn more about how communities are coming together to create new neighborhoods
In the last episode of the season, Cailin and Sanaa share reflections and highlights of the season, insights into their current work, and updates from past guests.
Show notes:
- www.linktr.ee/QueenSanaa
- www.lintr.ee/SavvyChicClothing
- www.youtube.com/c/qsqueensanaa
- www.savvychicclothing
- Arthur Fidel Argomaniz - Center for the Study of Social Policy
- New Neighborhood Resource Hub: Featuring Your Local Work
- Relationship and Connection: Prevention and Intervention Webinar
Description: In this episode of the New Neighborhood, we hear from Martin Balben, Tennille Call, and Randy Jensen about the early learning coalitions taking shape throughout Idaho. The conversation delves into the ongoing early childhood efforts in American Falls and highlights Read Talk Play, their early childhood literacy initiative.
Show notes:
- Read Talk Play | American Falls School District #381
- Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children
- Building Blocks of an Early Learning Community (check back in early 2024 for updated materials)
In this episode of the New Neighborhood, Tina Sherman and Daphne Alsiyao speak about the power of storytelling and parent advocacy, empowering family leaders to speak up and influencing maternal health policy in North Carolina.
Show notes:
- https://www.smartstart.org/family-engagement-and-leadership/taking-action/
- Join MomsRising -https://action.momsrising.org/signup/stand_with_momsrising/
In this episode, we hear from Linda King and Ari Wubbold from United Way of the Columbia-Willamette about their housing stability work. They discuss the current state of housing and how their eviction prevention program works to keep families in stable housing.
Show notes:
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette Housing Stability
- Center for Housing & Community Studies- Tenant Leadership Academy
- Find free and low-cost legal help wherever you live: https://www.usa.gov/legal-aid and https://www.lawhelp.org/
- New Neighborhood Form
The third episode of season 3 features the work of Power of Two, a community-based organization in NYC that offers in-home parent coaching, connection to community resources, and community advocacy. We spoke with Kristin Bernhard and Daneele Thorpe about Power of Two's implementation of the ABC home visiting model and discussed their ongoing research about how neighborhood factors influence parenting.
Show notes:
https://powerof2.nyc/
We spoke with Elisa Minoff, Senior Policy Analyst at CSSP, and Huong Vu, Parent Leader Network member and Automatic Benefit for Children (ABC) Coalition Parent Advisory Board member, about their policy and advocacy work toward a permanent national child allowance. The need for a permanent expanded Child Tax Credit has only become more abundantly clear following the new Census Bureau data that shows the child poverty rate more than doubled from 5.2 percent in 2021 to 12.4 percent in 2022.
Show notes:
Child Poverty Doubled Last Year–We Owe Children So Much More - Center for the Study of Social Policy (cssp.org)
Let Us Rise and other CTC/Child Allowance Resources available at: https://cssp.org/our-work/project/advancing-antiracist-child-allowance/#featured-resources
ABC Coalition: https://www.abccoalition.org/
Parent Advisory Board principles: https://www.abccoalition.org/child-allowance-principles/
Co-hosts Cailin O’Connor and Sanaa Sharrieff talk about what brings them to this work and what to expect in season 3.
Sanaa and Cailin share updates from past guests on The New Neighborhood in our first-ever “Where Are They Now?” segment. And, we reflect on this season of the podcast, especially how we both felt it made a difference to have a parent leader as one of co-hosts.
Show notes:
- We referred to guests and ideas from several previous episodes:
- Yakima Valley Partners for Education: Season 2, episode 3
- Multnomah County Preschool for All initiative: Season 1, episode 1
- Guilford County Ages 3-5 Design Group and Parent Leader Network: Season 2, episode 4
- Zach Ben and Bidii Baby Foods: Season 2, episode 5
- Specialty Cheese—supporting child care for the workforce: Season 2, episode 6
- Safe Families for Children—Cleveland: Season 2, episode 2
- Links to Queen Sanaa’s catalog, live shows, and social media can be found here: Queen Sanaa Music.
- You can also find information for the 9/11/22 tribute show here. It will be karaoke style, so look up the lyrics and sing along!
- For more information about Queen Sanaa’s clothing line, visit here: Savvy Chic Clothing, Co.
- Learn more about CSSP’s work in early childhood here.
An innovative new program in Wisconsin invited businesses to apply for funds to help pay for their employees’ child care. Specialty Cheese in Reeseville, WI, is one of the “Project Growth” grantees. Hear about how this cheese factory in a rural area works to help their employees overcome potential barriers to work, and how Project Growth is engaging new partners in helping to solve the child care crisis one community at a time.
Show notes:
- Learn more about the child care crisis: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/worsened-by-pandemic-child-care-crisis-hampers-broader-economy
- Wisconsin’s Project Growth: https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/childcare/projectgrowth
- Specialty Cheese Company: www.specialcheese.com or follow them on FB at https://www.facebook.com/specialcheese
On the Navajo Nation reservation in New Mexico, Zach Ben and his wife recently founded a social enterprise baby food company producing traditional Navajo foods. Zach shares about Bidii Baby Foods, the BEN Initiative, and how an embrace of traditional ways has enhanced his experience as a new father.
SHOW NOTES:
- Bidii Baby Foods: https://www.bidiibabyfoods.org/ and on Instagram at: @bidiibabyfoods
- Learn about indigenous people and languages in your area of North America, historically and today: https://native-land.ca/
**Partners in Guilford County, North Carolina, have been working together across sectors to make sure that all families have what they need to help their children be ready for school. Staff of Ready for School Ready for Life and the University of North Carolina Greensboro joined us to talk about what this looks like, including how they are working on expanding navigation services to serve families of 3-5-year-olds.
GUESTS:**
- Heather Adams and Christina Dobson, Ready for School Ready for Life
- Catherine Scott-Little and Christine Murray, University of North Carolina Greensboro
SHOW NOTES:
- Ready for School Ready for Life: https://www.getreadyguilford.org/
- UNC Greensboro - Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships: https://cyfcp.uncg.edu/
- UNC Greensboro - Department of Human Development & Family Studies: https://hhs.uncg.edu/hdf/
Christina referred to “toxic stress” (https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/toxic-stress/) and Sanaa then referred to the related concept of ACEs, adverse childhood experiences (https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html)
Yakima Valley Partners for Education, a collective impact initiative in Washington State, provides drive-through food distribution for the Yakama Nation Reservation and other residents of the Yakima Valley. We talked about this program with Lucy Smartlowit of Peacekeeper Society and Suzy Diaz of Heritage University about how and why they target food insecurity in order to improve outcomes for children.
SHOW NOTES:
- Peacekeeper Society: https://www.peacekeepersociety.com/
- More about Yakima Valley Partners in Education: https://heritage.edu/building-the-foundation-to-thrive/
- Learn about the history of indigenous people and languages in your area of North America: https://native-land.ca/
Alana Dennis and Jessie Manning from Safe Families for Children join us from Cleveland to talk about how volunteers open their homes to socially isolated families in order to build relationships, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help families stay together.
SHOW NOTES:
- Safe Families for Children: https://safe-families.org/
- Follow Safe Families for Children of Cleveland: @sffccleveland; @safefamiliesforchildrencleveland
- Center for the Study of Social Policy: www.cssp.org
- Strengthening Families: www.strengtheningfamilies.net
- Health Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE): https://positiveexperience.org/
@sffccleveland and @safefamiliesforchildrencleveland should be tagged when posting, if possible. Their comms team is aware and ready to share it!
New co-hosts Cailin O’Connor and Sanaa Sharrieff are joined by Joan Lombardi, who launched the podcast last year, to talk about what brings them to this work, why it was important to bring on a parent leader (Sanaa) as co-host this season, and what the “secret sauce” is that makes a community a great place to raise kids.
SHOW NOTES:
- Center for the Study of Social Policy
- Parent Leader Network
- Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (from the CDC)
- Health Outcomes of Positive Experiences (HOPE)
- PACEs Connection
- Strengthening Families
- Ready for School Ready for Life (Guilford County, NC)
- Season 1 – in case you missed it
- Enjoy Sanaa’s musical and spoken word content on Spotify and YouTube
- LinkedIn: Sanaa Sharrieff and Cailin O’Connor
Welcome to the New Neighborhood, a podcast that explores some of the dramatic changes taking place across the country as people work to reinforce a sense of community, support young children and families, and work to build equity within communities. Each episode features innovations that will create a society where all children and their families can thrive.
Hosted by: Cailin O'Connor and Sanaa Sharrieff
Join Joan Lombardi for a conversation with leaders in Palm Beach County to hear how they brought community services down to the neighborhood level.
Guests:
- Shaundelyn Emerson, Program Performance Lead at Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach
- Sherrah Hill, BRIDGES Parent Ambassador
- Travelle Northern, BRIDGES Initiative Director, Children’s Home Society
Host:Joan Lombardi
Learn how early childhood leaders in Tulsa are disrupting intergenerational poverty by connecting with families starting in pregnancy through BEST (Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa)
Guest:
- Catrice Brantley, Director, ConnectFirst, at the Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa at the George Kaiser Family Foundation
Host: Joan Lombardi
Join us for the newest episode in our New Neighborhood podcast series, where we hear about Baby Bundle, a powerful community wide initiative in Bridgeport, CT, designed to meet the needs of children under the age of 3 and their families.
Guests:
- Allison Logan, executive director, Bridgeport Prospers
- Janice Gruendel, senior advisor to Bridgeport Prospers
Host: Joan Lombardi
Learn how Boston advocates developed relationships with parents through connections with housing and development providers.
Guests:
- Cailin O’Connor, Senior Associate, Center for the Study of Social Policy
- Alia Pacombe, Director, Community Engagement, Urban Edge, Boston, MA
- Carla Therriault, Director, Community Impact, United Way, Massachusetts Bay/Merrimack Valley
Host: Joan Lombardi
Learn how early childhood advocates in Boston partnered with an affordable housing provider to expand their services for families with young children.
Guests:
- Azieb Ermias, Senior Program Analyst, Center for the Study of Social Policy
- Ilia Rolon, Director of Community Clinical Outreach, CHOC Children’s Health System, Orange, CA
Host: Joan Lombardi
Learn how parents shaped and led a successful ballot measure that provides free education and living wage teaching jobs as a way to address racial disparities and inequity in communities across Multnomah County, OR.
Guests:
- Lydia Gray-Holifield, Parent Leader with Early Learning Multnomah’s (ELM) Parent Accountability Council
- Lai-Lani Ovalles, Senior Manager for Early Learning Multnomah
- Molly Day, Co-Director, Early Learning Multnomah
Host: Joan Lombardi