Thrive Washington

Programs: Family engagement - includes: home visiting services account (hvsa), library partnerships, and getting school ready/ love talk play. In 2011, thrive & several stakeholders & community partners worked together to develop a washington state home visiting plan that articulates high-level goals & prioritized objectives for infrastructure-building & implementation of a home visiting system. The home visiting services account (hvsa), established by the legislature, is overseen by the department of early learning & administered by thrive. Thrive is responsible for raising private funds to match & release public dollars from the hvsa to expand ongoing availability of services, service delivery & access, and quality & accountability. Over the past year, thrive has made great progress in ensuring that washington's vulnerable families have access to high-quality, evidence-based home visiting services. 1. Serving families: in just five years, the hvsa has expanded from funding four grantees serving about 120 children, to 67 grantees with the capacity to serve over 2,296 children statewide, while decreasing the cost per child through economies of scale. The models & programs meet the needs of diverse populations. 2. Developing the field: funds work to increase the state's capacity to not only serve more families, but also serve them with highest quality. 3. Centralizing support & empowering communities: the hvsa portfolio approach opens the door to diverse models & programs, so that communities can get what fits best. With hvsa funding comes technical assistance & training that supports improved home visiting implementation to meet outcomes. Library partnership thrive facilitates and represents the early learning public library partnership in the early learning field building awareness among libraries on key opportunities to engage and act strategically. Getting school ready /love talk playgetting school ready! Is a resource guide for parents, families, caregivers and teachers that provides simple tips and ideas on how to help children succeed in kindergarten. The booklet is free, and the content can be downloaded in 10 languages: cambodian, russian, chinese, somali, english, spanish, korean, tagalog, oromo, and vietnamese. From social emotional development to enrolling in kindergarten, getting school ready! Is designed to support new parents and caregivers and their children's first and most important teachers. "love talk play" is a statewide education and awareness campaign aimed at parents of children ages 3 and younger. Through the use of messengers that parents trust and places they currently use for resources, this grassroots effort aims to surround parents with simple messages about three key things all parents can and should be doing with their children: love, talk, and play.

community momentum (formerly partnership & community partnerships)includes: community momentum; first people, first steps (tribal); and advocacy. A strong early learning system is built through strong partnerships at the local, regional, tribal and state levels. For the past several years, thrive has helped fund and support the state's 10 early learning regional coalitions with its community momentum granting strategy. The regions are key to the implementation and sustainability of washington state's early learning efforts. A strong regional infrastructure helps ensure that statewide and local organizations work together, tap into each other's wisdom, have the capacity to understand the changing demographics and needs of children and families, and set strategy to take action collectively so that all children have a greater opportunity to be successful in school and in life, particularly those furthest from opportunity. In addition to grants, thrive provides regular individual and group support to help the regions lead their community's early learning work. During the 2017 fiscal year, thrive provided capacity building assistance to the 10 coalitions, enabling them to expand and diversify membership, influence state-level policy at the department of early learning, and help plan an advocacy day in olympia for coalitions to meet with their representatives.

grants & program innovation (formerly fel) - includes stem and program innovation. Stem provide grants to 13 organizations to support stem and early numeracy development in young children and share learnings from the field. Build upon the discoveries work to promote innovative approaches that enhances early numeracy for young children.