Our Outcomes Baby's Space at Little Earth
Making certain academic and social success.
By bringing a full-service approach right to the baby’s neighborhood, Baby’s Space is loosening generational poverty’s grip on historically disadvantaged local communities by closing Minnesota’s stark minority achievement gap.
A team from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management conducted a Social Return on Investment analysis, comparing Baby's Space to similar prevention-intervention programs. It found that the Baby’s Space model has a very high likelihood of achieving a positive social return on its investment and estimated that in addition to the value of childcare availability for working families, society would realize an economic benefit of $4 for every dollar invested.
The Baby’s Space model of neighborhood-based holistic services works. Making programming decisions from the baby’s point of view means that we’re not just educating young children and supporting their parents – we’re creating whole communities that see through the eyes of their children. Parents and community members understand that this level of consistent and responsive care, education, and family support, which is unavailable in other settings, is making a real difference in the lives of their children and family.
A conversation with the director can convince a young dad to stop putting a sideways baseball cap on his toddler, and raise his expectations for his son. He realized he wanted his son to be a doctor, not a gang-banger. Changing the perspective works towards breaking the vortex of poverty and transforms community members’ perceptions of the potential for their children and themselves.
A team from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management conducted a Social Return on Investment analysis, comparing Baby's Space to similar prevention-intervention programs. It found that the Baby’s Space model has a very high likelihood of achieving a positive social return on its investment and estimated that in addition to the value of childcare availability for working families, society would realize an economic benefit of $4 for every dollar invested.
The Baby’s Space model of neighborhood-based holistic services works. Making programming decisions from the baby’s point of view means that we’re not just educating young children and supporting their parents – we’re creating whole communities that see through the eyes of their children. Parents and community members understand that this level of consistent and responsive care, education, and family support, which is unavailable in other settings, is making a real difference in the lives of their children and family.
A conversation with the director can convince a young dad to stop putting a sideways baseball cap on his toddler, and raise his expectations for his son. He realized he wanted his son to be a doctor, not a gang-banger. Changing the perspective works towards breaking the vortex of poverty and transforms community members’ perceptions of the potential for their children and themselves.
