West side summary
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The document summarizes findings from listening sessions and surveys conducted with 55 parents involved in the West Side at Humboldt ECFE program, highlighting their experiences, challenges, and needs. Parents expressed a strong appreciation for the emotional and informational support received from ECFE, while also indicating a desire for improved connectivity and resource sharing among themselves through technology. Key recommendations include creating virtual spaces for parents to connect, access class materials, and share parenting resources while considering privacy and ease of use.
West side summary
- 1. West Side at Humboldt ECFE What did we learn from the listening sessions and surveys? Now what?
- 2. Who did we hear from? • 55 parents in 6 classes (listening sessions, surveys) • Monday (1 survey) • Tuesday am (7,5 surveys) • Tuesday pm (15, 13 surveys) • Wednesday am (11, 10 surveys) • Thursday am (14, 13 surveys) • Friday (8, 10 surveys) • Parent age: 32-58 (mean = 34.2) • # children: 1 or 2 mostly • 26% fathers • 65.4% income < $80K • 21.2% non-white • 24.1% < college
- 3. ECFE parents love being parents! • What excites you about being a parent & where you are most confident • What challenges you and where you are least satisfied
- 4. How do you describe ECFE?
- 5. What do you really like about ECFE? • Discussion with other parents & expressing views with other parents • Many find ECFE parents and the ECFE parent educator a great source of emotional support • Information about child development & observing your own child’s development • Most say ECFE class and the ECFE parent educator is a great source on all types of information • Information on resources in the community
- 6. Who else helps parents be great parents? • Your spouse or partner • For all types of support (practical, emotional, information) • 85% share info from ECFE • Your family and friends, including friends who are other ECFE parents • Also used for all types of support • Books, online content and professionals useful mostly for information ECFE Others in your life
- 7. Based on parents’ information on the information and support in their lives, what they value from whom about what… • Increase opportunities for ECFE parents to connect with each other & with the ECFE PE • Maintain opportunities for ECFE parents to continue to access other parents’ points of view and information about community resources • Find ways to help parents share what they gain from books, online content, professionals with other ECFE parents • Find ways to help parents share information and resources from ECFE with the partner/spouse (possibly w/ friends or own parent)
- 8. How can technology help? Consider These • Use personal computers, cell phones, digital or web cameras to • Do THESE activities: • Send email or text • Access social networking • Look for information • Organize information • Send photos Don’t consider these • iPads or ebooks • Or technology to do these activities: • Blogging • Listening to podcasts • Discussion boards • Gaming • Online classes • Recommend products ECFE parents have fairly high attitudes toward technology as being useful to parenting and for social connections; barriers to use fairly low
- 9. What do parents need for us to consider when creating this technology? • Privacy and a sense of security of knowing who is reading what is being said • Degrees of control on who you connect to and who gets to connect to you • This for some is a security issue • For others it’s a matter of identity • Easy to use! Easy to navigate! • Access to local information and to local connections • Considerations of universal access for all parents in the ECFE/community • Considerations of access to those who cannot attend ECFE
- 10. What are some ways that technology might be used to help ECFE parents be great parents? • Connect with each other more easily • To see each other out of class, like to arrange play dates, meet at the park • Share information with each other • Continue discussion from class, to receive help with a problem • Updates on events in the community • Recommend activities for families, esp in the local area • Access resources from the class • Retrieve documents, video links shared for later use • Retrieve information and materials to share with others (partner, own parents, child care provider) • Beyond class access to the parenting educator • Continue to receive information and emotional support
- 11. Some initial ideas 1. Increase opportunities for ECFE parents to connect with each other & with the ECFE PE (emotional) • Access to an ECFE virtual space that offers the warmth and emotion of the class, feeling of access to others • Easier ways for parents to make connections with each other to arrange play dates, meet each other at the park, etc. • Email list • Facebook group • App like WAZE or foursquare • Provide out of class access to ECFE PE • Text affirmations to cell phones • Open chat time online • PE participation in asynchronous discussion PE You Parent Parent Parent Parent Parent Parent Parent
- 13. Some initial ideas 2. Maintain opportunities for ECFE parents to continue to access other parents’ advice and experience and information about community resources (information) • Place for continued discussion from class, to receive help with a problem • asynchronous discussion board, • chat area • Updates on events in the community • Shared calendar, with mapping for location • Recommend activities for families, esp in the local area • Shared activity ideas, with mapping for location • Access resources from the class • Retrieve documents, video links shared for later use
- 16. Some initial ideas • Find ways to help parents share what they gain from books, online content, professionals with other ECFE parents • Asynchronous discussion boards • Live chats on specific topics • Reading lists with parent reviews and ‘likes’ or ratings Parent • Dr rec • Book read Parent • New research • Book read Parent • Dr behavior tip • New research
- 18. Some initial ideas • Find ways to help parents share information and resources from ECFE with the partner/spouse (possibly w/ friends or own parent) • Documents from class available in pdf, links for viewing, dated and sorted by class, tagged for archiving and retrieval • ‘Share’ feature to make easy forwarding over internet with comment option
- 19. What would you like to connect & share with other parents in your class, and what to share with parents in other Humboldt classes? West Side at Humboldt ECFE Tuesday am Class Tuesday pm class Wednesday class Friday class Thursday class Monday class Monday pm class Monday evening class Discussion area for sharing advice on parenting issues Calendar and activity area Materials from class for retrieval and sharing with others Ability to make easy and quick connections to other parents Office hour time with parenting educator and/or early childhood educator
- 20. Number of friends in other ECFE classes 29 7 4 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 0 1 2 4 5 6 10 12 15 30
- 21. What about Facebook? • 85% of Humboldt ECFE parents have facebook accounts. • 42% Have not heard of the West Side at Humboldt ECFE facebook page (3 are unsure).
- 22. WHY ISN’T THAT HAPPENING NOW? So, if ECFE parents want to stay connected outside of class….
- 23. WHAT WOULD INTEREST YOU IN USING AN ECFE SPACE ONLINE IF NO ONE ELSE FROM CLASS WAS THERE?
- 24. WHATARE SOME WAYS TO GET CLASS CONTENT ONLINE? Would you do it? What would it take?
- 25. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN CONTINUING TO OFFER ADVICE ON THE DESIGN OF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR ECFE?
Editor's Notes
- #8: Find ways to help parents share information and resources from ECFE with the partner/spouse (possibly w/ friends or own parent)The partner is a key person in ECFE parents’ lives for all types of support (is #1 for emotional and practical help, and used for all types of info). 85% are already verbally sharing ECFE information with this personIncrease opportunities for ECFE parents to connect with each other & with the ECFE PE Parents aren’t very satisfied with the emotional support in their lives and many identify the ECFE class & the ECFE PE as a resource for emotional supportIncreased opportunities to connect may enhance parents’ feelings of satisfactionMaintain opportunities for ECFE parents to continue to access other parents’ points of view and information about community resourcesParents identify ECFE and the ECFE PE for all types of information; Discussion with other parents and sharing points of view; getting info on child development and on resources in the community are top rated features of ECFEAlthough parents identify many informaiton sources, they are only moderately satisfied with the helpfulness of that advice. Increasing access to ECFE may enhance info satisfactionFind ways to help parents share what they gain from books, online content, professionals with other ECFE parentsBeyond ECFE, parents identify additional sources especially on children’s growth, behavior, and places to go on outingsOpportunities for ECFE parents to share what they gather from these independent sources can enrich others in the ECFE classes
- #10: STOP after this
- #21: Most don’t know any other ECFE parents – about 1/3 know a few. Might there be a value to making connections across classes?