Newly Published Article: Students in Primary Project had higher attendance rates
Our recently published article in the Journal of Applied School Psychology highlights results that show students enrolled in Primary Project had higher rates of attendance compared to their peers.
Continue readingWelcome to New Board Members
Children’s Institute welcomes two new Board Members to a three-year term. Each volunteer member brings a unique set of expertise, experience, and perspectives that will enhance the Board's commitment to our mission: Joining together to raise every child’s complete wellbeing.
Continue readingGold Award for Team Excellence! GRQC 2022 Performance Excellence Awards
Children’s Institute’s Get Ready to GROW team was honored with a Gold Award for Team Excellence – Get Ready to GROW Referrals: Let’s “Close the Loop!”
Continue readingQSNY Update and Welcome to New CI Employee Krista Nicolaisen
QUALITYstarsNY (QSNY) is a large project that has been on hold during COVID. It is New York’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) for early childhood programs, providing support and resources to improve and sustain high quality across New York State: New York’s Quality Rating & Improvement System - QUALITYstarsNY.
Continue readingLeading with Love
Last weekend, I gathered with lay faith members of communities across Rochester with whom I have gathered monthly for a year. It was our final class. We were celebrating our accomplishments together as a community that cares about mental health, in this intentional learning community of Renewing of the Mind’s (RoM).
Continue readingResearch Presented at 2022 ISDC
Children’s Institute's former student intern, Victoire Alleluia Shenge, now a graduate student at the University of Maryland, and Executive Director, Ann Marie White, virtually presented their community-based participatory research project at the 2022 International Systems Dynamic Conference (ISDC) held in Frankfurt, Germany: "Interdependencies of Faith and Mental Health among Black Millennials in a US City."
Continue readingCelebrating Freedom: Juneteenth
I am reminded of the fateful words of Frederick Douglass from a speech he delivered 170 years ago that still resonate very much in 2022 as African American and people of color in America continue the fight for the same equity and equality that this great abolitionist was waging in the mid-19th century.
Continue readingBroken Hearts: The Trauma of Racial Violence
Our hearts are broken for the city of Buffalo today, where a white supremacist opened fire at a Tops market on Saturday, killing 10 and injuring 3. Eleven of the victims were African American, including a 77-year-old grandmother who ran a food pantry, and an 86-year-old woman who was simply shopping for her husband who she is taking care of.
Continue readingGrieving Buffalo
Unfolding is the grief, tragic loss, fear, anger, and pain from witnessing the racially motivated mass murder in Buffalo this weekend. We begin as we simply can - even when words fail to capture our feelings - by supporting one another, and by embracing our Western NY to world families left now to confront the horror of this act.
Continue readingRECAP Annual Report, 2020-21
RECAP, which stands for the Rochester Early Childhood Assessment Partnership, has been a core component of our work at Children’s Institute for the past three decades.
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