Tag Archives: HMG-LI

Bright By Text – Getting the Word Out

Tips, info, and resources via text to support caregivers – HMGLI families love it! Bright by Text is a texting service that provides free tips, information, and resources to help all parents and caregivers give every child a bright beginning. …
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Potty Training: What Should We Know?

Help Me Grow Long Island helps promote the important developmental milestones in a child’s life such as Potty Training. We’ve compiled some resources to help caregivers know what signs to look for to indicate signs of readiness English Resources Spanish …
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Breastfeeding – We’re here to help!

Breastfeeding can be a daunting journey for new and expecting parents. We’ve compiled some resources across Long Island that can provide extra support for parents and babies. For more information, please contact the Help Me Grow Long Island team at …
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Help Me Grow Long Island 4th Annual Report Released

The Help Me Grow Long Island 4th Annual Report  “Building Connection – Measuring Impact” is a snapshot into the challenges and opportunities families faced in providing for and supporting their young children prenatal to age 5 in the past year and proposes …
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Docs for Tots in 2021

Making Best Practice Everyday Practice in Support of Young Kids Help Me Grow – Long Island, a regional partnership promoting early childhood development, rose to the unprecedented challenges of COVID in 2020, doubling the number of vulnerable families aided and …
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Webinar on Centering the Family Experience: What does it mean for Preschool Special Education access across the state?

Webinar Summary Help Me Grow Long Island was thrilled to partner with Education Trust New York and Kids Can’t Wait Campaign to get the word out regarding the recent report Centering the Family Experience: Implications for Long Island Early Childhood …
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HMG-LI Report: Centering the Family Experience

IMPLICATIONS FOR LONG ISLAND’S EARLY CHILDHOOD SYSTEM A follow up to Help Me Grow Long Island’s May 2021 report, this October 2021 report explores families’ experiences with Help Me Grow – Long Island through qualitative analysis. Importantly, feedback from families …
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Learning Collaboratives Prepare Child Care Providers to Offer Developmental and Social Emotional Screens to Children in Their Care

2020 Highlights For the families that use them, child care providers play a major role in children’s lives. A child who attends child care every day can spend 40 hours a week with their provider during a very critical time …
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The Value of Community Partnerships

by Fabella Decema, Docs for Tots HMG-LI Family Resource Specialist Partnerships are an important component of community advocacy efforts. There are so many reasons why community partnerships are effective. I would like to start with an African proverb: “If you …
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Latest News

November 2023 Newsletter

Check out our newsletter and see what we’re up to! In case you missed it- here is our November Newsletter . . .
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October 2023 Newsletter

Check out our newsletter and see what we’re up to! In case you missed it- here is our October Newsletter . . .
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Meet Our Cicerone Partner, Meagen

Extraordinary evening of giving, gastronomy, and groundbreaking beverages, all in aid of Docs for Tots. “I’m excited to try the drinks Meagen Anderson, MBA conjures up!” . . .
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Investing in quality early learning programs is the most efficient way to affect school and life success and to reduce social expenditures later.

James Heckman, economist, Nobel laureate