The Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund is pleased to announce applications for Communities Aligned in
Early Development and Education to improve the well-being of Kansas children
and youth.
The purpose of this grant opportunity is to expand access to
full-day, full-year early childhood care and education services for at-risk
children in Wyandotte County ages birth up to kindergarten entry to improve
school readiness and health.
The Children’s Cabinet is interested in
supporting evidence-based, data-driven best practices and program models that
provide direct services to at-risk children and families. Proposals need to
support activities and services that are community-based, community-informed,
community-driven, and grounded in a public-private partnership framework.
CAEDE Objectives
The following objectives should be addressed as
appropriate for strategies in your proposal (common measure in parenthesis):
- Healthy Development
- Early identification:
percentage of children who are screened for developmentally appropriate
communication skills, general cognitive skills, and social and emotional
skills and referred for additional services as needed. (Ages and Stages
Questionnaire, Third Edition; ASQ-3, Ages and Stages Questionnaire:
Social-Emotional, Second Edition;
- Social-emotional development:
percentage of children who demonstrate improvement in positive
self-regulation and compliance behaviors. (Devereux Early Childhood
Assessment; DECA)
- Strong Families
- Safe, stable, and nurturing
relationships (SSNRs): percentage of children whose family or primary
caregivers demonstrate support of their learning and development. (Home
Observation Measurement of the Environment; HOME)
- Safe, stable, and nurturing
relationships (SSNRs): percentage of family or primary caregivers who
indicate a positive level of family functioning, social support,
nurturing and attachment, and concrete support. (Keys to Interactive
Parenting Scale; KIPS, Protective Factors Survey, 2nd Edition; PFS-2)
- Early Learning
- Early literacy: percentage of
children (birth up to kindergarten entry) who demonstrate ongoing
competence in communication and literacy as appropriate for their
development. (Individual Growth & Development Indicators;
IGDI/myIGDIs)
- Numeracy: percentage of
children (ages 3 to 5) who demonstrate ongoing competence in numeracy
skills as appropriate for their development. (myIGDIs)
- Quality learning environments:
percentage of high-quality early care and learning environments
predictive of positive change in academic outcomes. (Classroom 12
Assessment Scoring System; CLASS)
Funding Information
Awards will be issued under this RFP for a
1-year funding period from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, with a maximum award
amount of $1,000,000. Awards will be issued based on FY 2022 Children’s
Initiative Fund (CIF) dollars of approximately $1,000,000 available statewide
dependent upon the final budget approved during the 2021 Legislative Session.
Eligibility Criteria
This award is limited to projects
serving Wyandotte County. Eligible applicants should be experienced in
providing service delivery models that yield positive outcomes to children from
birth up to kindergarten entry and their families meeting at least one of the
at-risk criteria, with a commitment to evidence-based, data-driven practices.
Applicants should include within their proposal a community-informed,
community-driven collaborative approach with partners from the private sector.
Eligible applicants may include:
- 501©(3) organizations
- County and city governments
- Unified School Districts (USDs)
At-Risk Criteria
This RFP is focused on children and their
families at-risk of entering kindergarten socially, emotionally or academically
unprepared in Wyandotte County. CAEDE at-risk criteria include:
- Family income qualifying for
federal free or reduced lunch program;
- First language is not English
or English is not the language primarily spoken in the home;
- Children at-risk for
developmental delays or who have an established Individual Education Plan
(IEP) or Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP);
- Children in foster care,
custodial grandparents/kinship care, or out-of-home placement, or children
who have been referred by the Department for Children and Families;
- Either parent lacking a high
school diploma or GED;
- Teen parent(s) at time of
child’s birth (19 years old or younger);
- Custodial parent is unmarried;
- Children lacking health
insurance;
- Children with inadequate
housing, or who experience chronic or episodic homelessness;
- Migrant status
Post Date - 28-Apr-2021