Over 300 assessments now on IMPACT Measures Tool!

Come explore our 60 newly-added assessments! IMPACT now features more assessments related to health care, early childhood job satisfaction, and other topics. As always, all assessments are reviewed using our science-backed scoring system on four key categories of usability, cost, cultural relevance, and technical merit.

Are you an early childhood practitioner or provider? We have new assessments for you!

Added assessments for early childhood practitioners include:

• Early Childhood Professional Well-being Questionnaire (ECPW-Q)
• Ohio Youth Problem, Functioning, and Satisfaction Scales (Ohio Scales) - Agency Worker Rating - Short Form
• Professional Quality of Life Measure (ProQOL 5.0)

Added assessments for health care providers include:

• CAHPS® Child Hospital Survey (Child HCAHPS)
• Family Management Measure (FaMM)
• Primary Care Assessment Tool-Child Edition (PCAT-CE)
• Reproductive Autonomy Scale (RAS)

Events 

Registration Open: Nurturing Developing Minds Conference

Please join us for the 2023 Nurturing Developing Minds conference from February 23-24 at the Greenville ONE Center in Greenville, South Carolina. This continuing professional development conference attracts a wide array of researchers, policymakers, medical practitioners, and educators to provide an interactive learning and networking opportunity.

From the Field

Harvard Center on the Developing Child Launches IDEAS Impact Toolkit

Our collaborator, the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, has launched a website housing the IDEAS Impact Toolkit, a free digital resource to support early childhood innovators in expanding their impact. Members of the EC PRISM team participated in the development of this framework of early childhood program development and evaluation. Learn more about this free resource below!

Applications Now Open: J.M.K. Innovation Prize!

The J.M. Kaplan Fund is now accepting applications for the J.M.K. Innovation Prize. This prize seeks to identify, support, and elevate innovators who are spearheading transformative early-stage projects in the fields of the environment, heritage conservation, and social justice. The Fund will provide each of the 10 awardees with $175,000 as well as valuable support and training.  

• Start your online application – Deadline: April 28, 2023 
• Register for informational webinar – March 28, 2023, 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT 
• Download 1-page overview (PDF) 
• En Español (PDF) 
• American Sign Language (Video)

NAEYC Resource: Celebrating Black History Month by Welcoming Black Dads 

The National Association for the Education of Young Children has released an article on supporting Black fathers: Welcoming Black Dads: Action Steps and Reflections on Becoming Culturally Competent, which focuses on centering and uplifting the experiences of Black fathers within early education settings. 

Five Key Practices:

1. Examine the curriculum 
2. Build relationships 
3. Talk the talk 
4. Walk the walk 
5. Become culturally competent

Learn more about IMPACT

IMPACT is a suite of tools and resources to help support the measurement needs of the early childhood field, including the IMPACT Measures Tool®, a repository of early childhood and parenting measures. In addition to our Measures Tool, our IMPACT offerings also include educational content such as videos, articles, and practical tools, which you can explore on our Learn page.

For more information on using the IMPACT Measures Tool®, watch our tutorial video.

Keep in touch

Have questions about early childhood measurement? Know of an exciting innovation in this area? Let us know! Email us at ecprism@instituteforchildsuccess.org or reach out to us on social media at @ec_prism.

We would like to thank the Pritzker Children’s Initiative, Overdeck Family Foundation, Valhalla Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Brady Education Foundation for their generous support of the IMPACT project, which has made our work possible.

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