Updated May 2024
Between 2020 and 2024, Child Trends partnered with The Heinz Endowments to support their efforts to build a stronger and more equitable prenatal-to-three (PN-3) system in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The PN-3 system is complex and includes a network of organizations—along with related policies and programs—that support families with children from pregnancy to age three across multiple domains.
As part of the partnership, Child Trends worked closely with The Heinz Endowments to create a shared vision for an equitable PN-3 system in the county, a community-driven grantmaking initiative, and a collaborative of PN-3 funders. The team also conducted in-depth research and evaluation. Over the last four years, the team conducted interviews with key PN-3 system leaders across several timepoints; fielded multiple surveys; led literature reviews, policy analyses, and fiscal mapping; and created an interactive map of where key PN-3 resources are located relative to family demographics. You can read more about the partnership, including key findings and implications from the work, in the following products:
Principal Investigators: Kathryn Tout, Andra Wilkinson (co-PI)
Project Director: Andra Wilkinson
Deputy Project Director: Rowan Hilty
Other team members: Kara Ulmen, Priya Koushik, and Christina Padilla
Consultant: Kristine Andrews (Ideas to Impact)
Chad Dorn, Propulsion Squared
Laura Johns, Propulsion Squared
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