To reach UWSC's bold goal of a 30% increase, an additional 10-11 families should report an increase in their parenting knowledge and skills annually thru 2025.

Note: the FY18-19 baseline and annual targets were updated in November 2020 after one partner agency amended its data. (The previously reported baseline number of 199 was 21 individuals higher than it should have been.)

The significant increase in FY20-21 is remarkable as this was a year of program changes. In FY20-21, MICA discontinued its Steps-to-Success family development program in Story County and YSS ended a parenting program formerly associated with its Transitional Living Program. In addition, 3 programs saw significant declines in numbers served due to the pandemic as both in-home visiting and in-person parent support groups had to shift to virtual and hybrid formats. This resulted in significantly lower survey response rates than typical. Thankfully, Raising Readers was able to conduct and report robust survey data for their family literacy programming, Step Into Storybooks and Advocacy for Social Development; this was data that we included for the first time in FY20-21.

The data reported here is an aggregate of data reported by the following funded programs:  LSI Parent Development, LSI Parents-as-Teachers, MICA Steps 2 Success* , Raising Readers Thrive By Five** (Step Into Storybooks), Raising Readers Advocacy for Social Development**, The Bridge Home*, YSS FaDSS, YSS Transitional Living Program*, and YSS The Nest***. While additional individuals/families were served by these programs, this figure is a count of those who completed surveys.

*Program discontinued or data no longer reported by this partner due to programming changes. / ** Data added in FY20-21. / *** Data added in FY19-20