get ready guilford initiative

get ready guilford initiative - Root Cause

How can a community ensure that every child in their county has access to health and education resources and opportunities they need so they can enter kindergarten ready to learn?

Ready for School, Ready for Life

Services: Measurement, Learning, & Improvement

Topics: Public Health, Education & Youth Development

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How Do You Shape Your Work To Improve Lives And Reduce Disparities? Field Notes from Guilford County, Part IV

In Part IV of a series on our Continuous Quality Improvement work in Guilford County, Anand Dholakia describes how we defined "quality" around what really matters for families.

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How do you learn about families' daily lived experience in a place? Field Notes from Guilford County, Part III

In Part III of a series on our Continuous Quality Improvement work in Guilford County, Anand Dholakia describes how learning about families' lived daily experience shapes how we approach program quality.

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How Do You Design for Population-Level Change? Field Notes from Guilford County, Part II

Part II of a series on our work in Guilford County, written by Anand Dholakia, focuses on how our definition of success greatly shapes our work to matter more to people and families.

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How Do You Define What Matters? Field Notes from Guilford County, Part I

Anand Dholakia, Principal at Root Cause, describes a process of framing capacity-building work as a means to achieve three ultimate ends: improve one person's life, improve lives at the population level, and reduce disparities caused by factors such as race, class, and geography.