All Family Living Programs are addressing
the needs of families in Milwaukee County.
We provide poverty education, PACE, poverty
awareness for community engagement, food preservation
to help people meet their food security need.
The biggest piece of my programing is childhood
developmental screening, it’s a quick and
easy way for parents to know whether their
child is developing on track.
The age and stages questionnaire is a standardized
tool and it covers five different domains.
There’s the physical, what the child can
do, the cognitive, making them think about
things.
Do you know how old you are?
I’m four.
Does your child use all of the words in a
sentence?
So the parent can look at their full development.
I’m hosting this training so other centers
can use this tool in their centers.
I train childcare providers on the tool so
they can then help the parent to use the assessment
tool.
The parent completes the tool, the provider
scores the tool and shares the result with
parents, and then does appropriate follow
up.
It helps them better understand a child’s
development, and we will provide activities
for that child that you can do with your child
to help continue to support their development.
We want to introduce this to the fathers because
we want them to be more involved with their
children’s growing as well as their development.
Children come to school too many times with
challenges that could have been diagnosed
much earlier.
If those challenges were diagnosed at that
time, children would be able to go to school
ready.
The earlier detection, and the earlier intervention
services, really makes a difference in helping
those children reach their full potential.
