Mattoon Community Unit School District #2 Birth-3 Program has earned a Quality Confirmation designation for their childhood Baby TALK Program.
MCUSD2 Birth-3 began the Baby TALK Quality process earlier this year. The process included reflection and supportive preparation, a virtual-site review including interviews with staff and families and a final designation. In the 2015 publication, Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences has concluded “that the key to program effectiveness is likely to be found in the quality of program implementation…” This Quality Confirmation designation will be valid for 5 years.
The Mattoon Birth-3 Program is part of MCUSD2 that is located at Franklin Preschool in Mattoon. The program serves families and children from prenatal to age 3 within the school district. MCUSD2’s Birth-3 Program is the latest to be added to the list of confirmed programs across the state of Illinois using the Baby TALK Model.