Rupani Foundation

Project Description

The Rupani Foundation uses community-driven approaches to provide holistic, culturally relevant, and respectful support programs for resource-limited families parenting or expecting infants and toddlers. By partnering with the Hackett Center for Mental Health and Children’s Museum Houston for their “Thriving Together” program, they strive to amplify their efforts to improve relational health between caregivers and young children, build caregiver knowledge and skills for nurturing interactions, and address common feelings of isolation and stress within families facing systemic barriers.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Rupani Foundation plans to use several avenues of dissemination and community outreach such as: town hall meetings, radio programs, health fairs, conferences, community organization meetings, city council meetings, early childhood education forums, refugee forms, community television program and social media to share information.

TARGET IMPACT

The Rupani Foundation’s target goals are to bridge cultural divides and increase parenting knowledge through highly effective, culturally affirming relationships, to improve relational health between caregivers and young children, to build caregiver knowledge and skills for nurturing interactions, and to address common feelings of isolation and stress within families facing multiple systemic barriers.

The key performance indicators of this program include:

  • Number of Brain Builder sites
  • Number of Welcome Baby and FLIP Kits distributed
  • Number of clients provided wraparound services
  • Number of facilitators completing Brain Builders facilitators
  • Percent of program attendance rate
  • Percent program retention

USE OF EVIDENCE & PROGRAM EVALUATIONS

The Rupani Foundation uses brain-based and parent-centered approaches to promote early learning and family well-being. Using the Thriving Together Approach, the Rupani Foundation provides wraparound supports, experiential reinforcement, best in-class research, and evidence-based curriculum.

The RAND Policy Research Corporation will be evaluating Early Childhood Impact Fund investments, including the Rupani Foundation program.

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