Changing the Focus: Building the Capabilities of Home-Based Child Care Providers

This Innovation in Action interview is the first in a series of portraits planned by the Center that will highlight the innovative, collaborative work occurring in the Frontiers of Innovation community. In this multimedia feature story, FOI member Jessica Sager, the co-founder and executive director of the non-profit organization All Our Kin, discusses its work in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., building the capabilities of women in low-income communities who provide care in their homes for infants and toddlers. FOI member Kia Levey, project director for the New Haven Mental Health Outreach for Mothers (MOMS) Partnership—a collaboration of agencies across the city that includes All Our Kin—also discusses the significance of focusing on adults in order to help children facing adversity.