Community Collaborations

Given the magnitude of the number of families in need, a community-wide approach to preventing early cognitive disparities and optimizing foundational brain development is needed. Without a single point of entry for change—as the public school system can be for children aged five and older—the multi-centric early childhood environment makes it difficult to make the critical leap from knowing what works to scaling what works. As part of our agenda to improve early learning outcomes, the TMW Center partners with communities to embed our evidence-based interventions in existing health, education, and community service systems. Each of these partnerships looks different and is designed to meet the needs of our community partners while providing us with critical data to help answer the question: What works best for whom?