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National Black Child Development Institute 

http://nbcdi.org/

The mission of the National Black Child Development Institute is to improve and advance the lives of Black children and their families, through advocacy and education.  The NBCDI have worked to improve child welfare services, make universal early care and education a reality, build family support services, press for educational reform and provide vital information regarding our children’s health.

Partners

In many regions of the country, the National Black Child Development Institute is represented by affiliate chapters that provide direct services at the community level. NBCDI’s nationwide affiliate network is a dynamic and geographically diverse force of dedicated volunteers located in urban and rural areas and on college campuses across the country.  The affiliate chapters are made up of people who actively care about the well-being of Black children. They are parents, professionals, proletarians, and others who share a commitment to making a difference in the lives of young people.

INITIATIVES

Love to Read is a research based national early literacy program designed to help reverse the achievement gap and to improve the academic success of African American children.  Love to Read is targeted towards parents and caregivers of children ages 0 through 6

T.E.A.C.H.  In 1990, Child Care Services Association created the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (T.E.A.C.H.) Early Childhood® Project to address the issues of under-education, poor compensation and high turnover within the early childhood workforce.  The T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Project gives scholarships to child care workers to complete course work in early childhood education and to increase their compensation.
T.E.A.C.H. is built on four components:
Education: T.E.A.C.H. helps participants to earn a required number of college credit hours in early childhood education each year.
Scholarship: T.E.A.C.H. offers counseling and financial support to pay for college courses and fees, books, travel, and time away from work.
Compensation: T.E.A.C.H. recipients earn a compensation bonus or raise after successful completion of a year of education.
Commitment: T.E.A.C.H. recipients agree to continue their service as a child care professional in their current early care and education setting.

Entering the College Zone (ECZ) is conducted in 23 cities nationwide and is a collaborative effort between NBCDI, major public school systems, and colleges and universities.  The goal of program is to increase substantially the number of disadvantaged students who enter college by equipping them and their parents during middle school with the skills and resources that will allow them to navigate through the college preparation process.

 Promoting Positive Nutrition Project is a health and nutrition education initiative supported by the Walmart Foundation, the project is designed to encourage healthy nutrition practices specifically among Black families with young children.

 Parent Empowerment Project (PEP) is a unique program that seeks to educate, motivate and inspire parents to excellence as their child’s first teacher.  The program consists of a  four-part parenting education curriculum that identifies and describes culturally competent and appropriate parenting practices and activities that focus on parent strengthening and education, infant and child development, and family support.

The NBCDI, has many more programs to offer and they provide many resources...