Strategic partnerships with a strategic focus.
The Urban Child Institute works to ensure all children are ready for kindergarten and can read on grade level by the end of third grade. But it takes more than one organization or one program to create real change. That’s why UCI hosts and participates in conversations and coalitions that are geared toward improving systems via multi-sector coordination and cooperation to achieve a broader impact.
Early Literacy Convenings
It is well-known that reading on grade-level by 3rd grade is a predictor of future academic success. With fewer than 1/4 of Memphis Shelby County Schools 3rd graders reading on grade-level, there is an urgent need to comprehensively and collaboratively engage multiple sectors in effective early literacy strategies.
With Literacy Mid-South, First 8 Memphis, Stand for Children, and dozens of multi-sector stakeholders interested in advancing early literacy
With Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach, Porter-Leath, University of Memphis, LENA Foundation
With Porter-Leath Books from Birth, Memphis Public Library, Literacy Mid-South
With Memphis Shelby County Schools (MSCS), the Hyde Family Foundation, First 8 Memphis, Literacy Mid-South, Seeding Success, Stand for Children, and Tennesseans for Quality Early Education (TQEE)
Social Drivers of Health Convenings
Social drivers contribute to preventable health and mental health conditions at the family and individual level as well as challenges in the early childhood and K-12 school environment.
With UCI Support Organizations and other SDOH stakeholders discuss topics such as affordable housing, child care, and local systems building initiatives
With TN Justice Center, TN Dept of Health, Shelby County Health Dept, and others
With Allied Behavioral Health Services, Children's Hospital Alliance of TN (CHAT), First 8 Memphis, Memphis Shelby County Schools, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Seeding Success, Tennessee American Academy of Pediatrics (TNAAP), Tennesseans for Quality Early Education (TQEE), United Way of the Midsouth, University of Memphis School of Social Work, UTHSC, Youth Villages
With AIMHiTN, Tenncare, and Allied Behavioral Health services
With UCI Support Organizations and other SDOH stakeholders discuss topics such as affordable housing, child care, and local systems building initiatives
With the TN Justice Center and other partners
With the TN Justice Center, American Heart Association, Second Harvest, and others
UCI uses Social Drivers of Health as a framework for where and how we engage directly with Memphis and Shelby County families and communities. Social Drivers of Health are the social, cultural and environmental conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. These conditions affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
Learn more about Social Drivers of HealthAt least 70% of health outcomes can be attributed to Social Drivers of Health like access to quality health care and education, employment and income, neighborhood safety, and more.
The Urban Child Institute is a 501(c)(3) organization.
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