WWO - Impact Report Pages - Flipbook - Page 18
NEW YORK CITY
Founded in 1983, MSHP is the largest and most
comprehensive school-based health program
in the country, providing coordinated primary
and preventive healthcare to public elementary,
middle, and high school students in 31 locations
throughout the Bronx, serving 95 schools. MSHP partners with students’ primary and
specialty providers to tailor services to the needs of each individual student. Working in
partnership with P.S. 199X through the Montefiore School Health Programs(MSHP) in
the Bronx, WWO is increasing the capacity of their preschool teachers and professionals
by training them in the Element of Play® methodology, demonstrating the lessons, and
evaluating and monitoring the impact of the program within each of the classrooms. In
2022, we trained teachers in four classes, and we plan to expand into more schools in the
2023.
Twenty of the schools in the MSHP network work with have children in the age group where
early childhood interventions have the biggest impact on the trajectory of a child’s life. By
bringing the Element of Play® program to pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms,
these children will build a foundation of preliteracy, numeracy, listening, and language
skills that is necessary to thrive not only in their childhood, but throughout adulthood.
WWO partnered with the New York
Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and
Gender-Based Violence Family Justice
Centers (FJC) in early 2022. We prepared
site recommendations for the Child Centers in the five boroughs of NYC in preparation to
welcome children from birth to three years old into the FJC child centers. This thoughtfully
prepares these centers to address the childcare needs of the 15,906 clients using FJC
services annually. In the future, clients with appointments with lawyers, psychologists, and
social workers will be able to access childcare for their children age birth through three
years old, in the child centers. WWO will be conducting early childhood development
training with the FJC Child Center staff in 2023.
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