Drive - United Way of Massachusetts Bay

EARLY EDUCATION & OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME

DRIVE

INVESTING IN VITAL EARLY EDUCATION WITH DATA & RESOURCES

A data-powered, community-driven, scalable early childhood model.

As champions of developmental screening and promoting healthy child development since 2014, United Way of Massachusetts Bay partners with early education programs, family childcare educators, housing agencies, state agencies, and municipalities through our DRIVE initiative to build on the importance of making developmental screenings accessible to all young children and families across our footprint and beyond. Our partners steer the ship when it comes to decision making around support needed to ensure the best developmental screening practices are implemented and enhance navigation of the referral process for children and families.

DRIVE PROGRAM GOALS

UNIVERSAL ACCESS

Universal developmental screening access to children and families to promote school readiness and healthy child development

PARENT PARTNERS

Empowering parents as their child’s first teacher and getting connected to the resources needed for their child(ren) to learn and thrive

STRONG PRACTICES

Partnering with early education programs to ensure strong developmental screening practices

COMMUNITY DATA

Using aggregate data to best support children in communities

HOW CAN YOU JOIN US?

DRIVE is proud to be collaborating with our sister initiative Shared Services. We have come together to offer professional development opportunities such as the Early Screening using ASQ-3 (Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3) and ASQ-SE-2. Is your program interested in participating?