10.18130/V3-5YGR-3Y66
McClintock, Charlotte
Charlotte
McClintock
University of Virginia
Gaba, Naomi
Naomi
Gaba
University of Virginia
Thompson, Julia
Julia
Thompson
University of Virginia
Coughlin, Isabel
Isabel
Coughlin
University of Virginia
Li, Yue
Yue
Li
University of Virginia
Cherry, Margaret
Margaret
Cherry
University of Virginia
Moser, Caitlen
Caitlen
Moser
University of Virginia
Madray, Cristalle
Cristalle
Madray
University of Virginia
Report: Early Childhood Mapping Project 2018
University of Virginia
2018
Report
early childhood
community research
charlottesville
childcare
pediatric health
policy
maternal health
nutrition
home visiting
special education
prevention of child abuse and neglect
Hatcher, Holly
Holly
Hatcher
University of Virginia
2018-12-07
Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND)
This project aims to create a base map of services available in Charlottesville and Albemarle County for children ages 0-5 living in low-income families, at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. As a team, we inventoried child care, early childhood education, health, nutrition, special education, home visiting, and foster care prevention services available to low-income families. While we were not able to map every single service available to families in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, we feel as though we were able to paint a broad picture of the area’s early childhood landscape for the use of the Early Childhood Funders Network. Our research led us to identify access and affordability of services, the importance of trust between clients and service providers, culturally relevant services, the intersectionality of need for low income families, scarcity and capacity of resources, limited data and outcome measurement capacity, and lack of coordination between service providers as the major gaps in the Charlottesville-Albemarle early childhood landscape.