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Pipeline Initiatives: 14th Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers & Illustrators Contest

Overall Goals: Goals and objectives of this community summit include, providing professionals with a deeper understanding of the issue; providing tools for early detection of those in professional settings, and ways to successfully live with the illness. A larger goal would be to cause a “ripple effect” with the information provided to summit attendees. We wish for them to take the information into their workplaces and create their own mini-summits on site using materials given as well as support from community partners: Community Mental Health (CMH), National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI),YMCA and others.

Partners: YMCA, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Community Mental Health (CMH)

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Pipeline Initiatives: DEPRESSION: Out of the Shadows, Men and Depression (working title), The Pain of Depression

Overall Goals: WTTW Kids' Early Learning Initiative, an out-growth of the former Ready To Learn project, seeks to educate adults about the education components of our programming and encourage use of the programming in supporting emergent literacy, child development, and other early learning areas of education. We also seek to encourage literacy development through book distribution and by providing literacy experiences beyond the screen for school-age children.

Partners: Various Home Daycare Associations, Head Start, Chicago Public Schools, Kohl's StoryBus

Activity Types: Workshops , Educator mini-conference or training , Events

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Pipeline Initiatives: Parenting Counts, a Focus on Early Learning

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Overall Goals: The goal of our project is to move preview screenings to the next level, and into the age of existing new media technology. This is an opportunity to reach a much broader viewing audience than a traditional physical location screening but still maintain a sense of exclusivity. It will offer a greater opportunity for sharing and word of mouth, and an easy of connecting to our partners in the initiative; WETA, CPB and PBS.

Partners: WETA, PBS, CPB

Activity Types: Online Virtual Screening

Pipeline Initiatives: CARRIER

Overall Goals: KERA's Little Bites, Big Steps project is an early childhood education initiative designed to provide parents and care providers with the tools they need to help our youngest children develop healthy eating and exercise habits right from the start. Through an extensive workshop curriculum and video segments found at www.readyforlife.org, Little Bites, Big Steps will reach over 10,000 parents and care providers across the country. This initiative was funded by the National Recreation Foundation and is currently taking place in 10 communities.

Partners: WHYY - Philadelphia, PA, UEN - Utah Education Network, KTXT - Lubbock, TX, SCETV - South Carolina, UNC-TV - North Carolina, KLRN - San Antonio, TX, KMOS - Warrensburg, MO, WKAR - Lansing, MI, Antioch Community Transformation - San Antonio, TX, Clackamas County Education Service District, Oregon, Dallas Coalition for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity, Crossroads Urban Center - Salt Lake City, UT, CACS Head Start and Early Childhood Programs - East Lansing, MI, AVANCE-Dallas, United Way of Metropolitan Tarrant County - FitFuture Project, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Texas Tech University - School of Nursing

Activity Types: Workshops for Parents, Workshops for Child Care Providers, National Outrach Train the Trainer Workshop, FitFuture Health Event, Little Bites, Big Steps Online Video

Overall Goals: KACV-TV, the sole service public television affiliate for the 26 counties of the northern Texas Panhandle, requests support for "Home Front: The Texas Panhandle Experience in WWII", a multifaceted outreach program that is intergenerational, interactive for viewers/participants, and utilizes technology in new ways for Texas Panhandle residents. This initiative will use "The War" as its centerpiece and as a springboard to collect and share stories and activities specific to WWII and the Texas Panhandle. These materials will be obtained by partnering with multiple area organizations (senior care centers, libraries, VFW organizations, museums, etc.) as well as school districts and institutions of higher learning to engage students and partners in the collection of local stories. To broaden the potential audience and maximize the utilization of this material, these stories and activity information will be used in a variety of distribution formats. Stories will then be posted on the Internet, in "YouTube" fashion via KACV's web site - an effective delivery tool to leverage dollars in reaching not only a local, but world-wide audience. Delivering educational content in a social networking format has not taken place in this area thus far, marking this project as innovative and groundbreaking for the region. Participants will also post the strongest materials to the Library of Congress Veteran's History Project, thus making local contributions to this important national database. KACV will create fillers and promotional pieces from this same material to be aired in conjunction with "The War." Beyond the time frame of this grant, this collection of material may serve as the basis for a variety of programs, including school curricular materials to ensure awareness and understanding of WWII and its impact on the Texas Panhandle for future generations.

Partners: The Mary E. Bivins Foundation, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, Education Director, Millie Vanover, Amarillo I.S.D., Core Curriculum Specialist: Social Studies, Devia Cearlock, Region 16 ESC, Education Specialist: Secondary Social Studies, Danna Beck, Harrington Regional Library Consortium, Director, Donna Littlejohn, Park Central Retirement Community, Director of Activities - Ameka Mobley

Activity Types: Planning and project rollout with area organizations including VFW organizations, senior care centers, museums and libraries as sites to both collect and disseminate local stories about WWII., Collect and preserve stories, letters, and images unique to the Texas Panhandle experience in WWII, Partner with area schools/school districts to train targeted students in the collection of local stories through history/journalism classes as well as to assist in the future development and dissemination of curricular materials., Utilization of Internet to post organized materials about the Texas Panhandle experience in WWII., Production of interstitial pieces to be aired on KACV, educating the general public about significant activities on the home front that supported the war effort., Development of promotional campaign utilizing project materials

Pipeline Initiatives: The War

Overall Goals: NPT wants to build on Nashville kids’ enthusiasm for the SUPER WHY reading series and heightened its brand recognition. We will engage children and families in hands-on activities to advance children’s reading and literacy learning. We will highlight SUPER WHY as the premier children’s television series for reading and literacy. NPT plans to conduct hands-on activities for low income children and their parents, using the educational resources developed for the SUPER WHY outreach campaign.

Partners: Monroe Carell, jr, Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Health Assist Tennessee, Nashville Humane Association, The Nashville Striders, Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity, Books From Birth of Middle TN, Book-Em, YMCA of Middle Tennessee, Hispanic Achievers, Whole Foods

Activity Types: SUPER WHY! ELL teacher workshops, NPT8K and Storybook Walk,

Pipeline Initiatives: SUPER WHY!

Overall Goals: ThinkTV will deliver fifteen in-house and on-site events that will introduce simple and fun literacy activities especially for children aged 3-6. ThinkTV will use the SUPER WHY! outreach program to help excite children about books and reading while demonstrating literacy concepts through hands-on activities enabling children to “learn through play.” Teachers, parents, or caregivers will be provided with simple activities to energize their teaching and foster literacy, language development, and vocabulary acquisition in their students.

Partners: Head Start, Miami Valley Child Development Centers, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Mound Street Academy, Teen Parent Program, Tait Foundation

Activity Types: Station Tours or classroom visit

Pipeline Initiatives: SUPER WHY!