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          While schools by themselves should not be expected to solve New Orleans' most serious health and social problems, it is practical to transform them by bringing multiple agencies together onsite to serve children, their families, and neighbors in these ways - above and beyond, all centered around the education and overall well-being of young children.

 

 Our pilot project is Mahalia Jackson Early Childhood & Family Learning Center. Mahalia Jackson Center brings the programs and services for which Central City families have expressed needs,  together under one roof, with one welcoming point of registration for all services, right in the heart of the neighborhood.

 

 Our Promise: No One is Turned Away. 

 

ECFLF and Mahalia Jackson Center partners believe that all of our children - and their families - deserve this innovative, non-blaming, holistic kind of  support. 

 

 If there is a service we do not offer to an eligible member, we find out who does, and we help them access that assistance.

 

 

 

 

 You can learn more about our work in action at our pilot project at www.mahaliajacksoncenter.org.

 

Reaching Beyond Mahalia Jackson Center ....  Into The Community:

 

 

 

ECFLF's 10-Component Coordinated School Health Program:

 

In addition to the Early Childhood & Family Learning programs we're operating out of Mahalia Jackson Center,  ECFLF is implementing a Coordinated School Health plan, starting with supplementing basic school health care and tracking students at four schools in Central City. Schools make perfect "health hubs" for communities, and we plan to take this model city-wide. 

 

The ECFLF-driven Coordinated School Health Model in Central City:  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Child Care & Family Outreach:

 

ECFLF also conducts outreach to several child cares in Central City, providing technical assistance and professional development to enhance (a) program performance (b) academic success for preschool age children, and (c) children’s readiness for school.

 

The main objective of this initiative is to ensure that children’s reading levels at the exit of kindergarten are at grade level expectations / at their optimal ability levels, helping to ensure future and long term success.

 

ECFLF’s Outreach Program also aims to ensure the academic, health, and social needs of children are met through seamless delivery of services at Mahalia Jackson Center and as they transition to school, and through collaboration with all relevant service providers to ensure there are no gaps in services.

 

Mahalia Jackson Center Arts Council

 

Mahalia Jackson Center Arts Council serves as  the designated Arts & Humanities advisory group to guide the development, adoption, and implementation of arts/humanities related programs and special events at the Center and in the extended Central City community. This Council actively pursues collaborative relationships that result in generating programs and special events.

 

Arts Council  Members:

 

 Cedric Scott, MENnovation 

 

 Maureen Iverson, Maple Street Book Store 

 

 Ellen Balkin, Ogden Museum of Southern Art 

 

 Holly Bell, Prime Time / Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 

 

 Madelyn Bonnot Griffin, Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium 

 

 Nadra Harrison Hall, Louisiana Equal Voice Institute 

 

 Brooke Pickett, Central City Artist Project 

 

 Sheila Prevost, Central City Branch /New Orleans Public Library 

 

 Miranda Restovic, Prime Time / Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 

 

 Sonya Robinson, Artist Corps New Orleans 

 

 Shacara Lewis Waithe, Louisiana Equal Voice Institute 

 

 Other partner organizations

 

Artfully Aware

Artist Corps New Orleans

Ashe Cultural Arts Center

Bruce Davenport, Jr.

Café Reconcile

Carol Bebelle, Director, Ashé Cultural Arts Center

Cecelia Tapplette-Pedescleaux, Artist 

Central City Artist Project

Central City Renaissance Alliance

Circle of Courage

Clifton Faust 

Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians

David Johnson, Executive Editor, Art Director: Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine, LEH

Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation

Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans
Young Audiences/Wolftrap

Foster Bear Films

Jackie Sumell, Artist

John Barnes, Artist

Kate Finlayson’s Nia Dance

Keith Duncan, Artist

Khalil Osiris, Director, Circle of Courage

Kid Camera Project

LA Equal Voice Institute

Lafargue Piano Lab

Lance Lafargue

LEH

Lori Waselchuk, Artist 

Louise Mouton,Artist

Louisiana Children’s Museum

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

MJC Arts Council

Mora Beauchamp-Byrd, Art Historian, Xavier University

Ms. Hyster’s BBQ

Natalie Keller Barnes, Artist

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.

New Orleans Jazz Institute

New Orleans Kid Camera Project

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

OPSB

Orleans Parish School Board and Mahalia Jackson School

Prime Time Family Reading Time

Prospect New Orleans

Prospect NOLA

Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium

Resurrection After Exoneratio

Ron Bechet, Artist, Xavier University

Saturday Music School

Silence is Violence

Southern University at New Orleans

Steve Gomez

SUNO/CAAAS

The Innocence Project

Tom Lowenstein, Policy Director, Innocence Project New Orleans

Total Community Action/Head Start/Early Head Start

Willie Birch, Artist  

Xavier University of Louisiana 

Yamaha Music Education System

Young Audiences

 

FLIP! Literacy Initiative

 

 

Family Literacy in Play (FLiP!) is one of many programs offered by the Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation at the Mahalia Jackson Center and in Central City. The goal of FLiP ! is to create a vibrant culture of literacy in Central City by providing numerous resources and experiences for families. FLiP !  works in collaboration with Mahalia Jackson Center and community partners including the New Orleans Public Library, LA Endowment for the Humanities, Total Community Action, and the New Orleans Public School Board as well as neighborhood child care centers. FLiP ! activities contribute to the ultimate objective of 100% of children in Central City entering kindergarten ready to learn and later graduating from high school.



SPECIAL STORYTIME

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