Resource Library
Scaling the Moments That Matter® early childhood development model: how communities’ monitoring for change contributes to sustainable impact
Monday, Mar 04, 2024This 2023 Frontiers Journal article, co-authored by Episcopal Relief & Development’s Director of Strategic Learning & Program Resources, presents a community case study of our Moments That Matter®️ program partnership, exploring how the program creates lasting change through an approach that is people-centered and community-led.
Fact Sheet | Integrated Early Childhood Development
Friday, Jul 14, 2023Our flagship integrated early childhood development program partnership, Moments That Matter® (MTM), is a direct response to the nurturing care imperative and long-term holistic parenting empowerment and targeted wraparound supports to families so that children (ages 0-3) have the start to life they need to develop to their full potential.
Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI Analysis) in Early Childhood Development Programming Poster
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2023Overview of Episcopal Relief & Development’s integration of Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI) in Moments That Matter®, an early childhood development program partnership of Episcopal Relief & Development. (This is a 36″x36″ poster.)
2018-2022 Scaling Up Faith and Youth Leaders’ Engagement to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Program in Liberia Poster
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2023Overview of Liberia’s Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Program with results and learnings from the 2018-2022 program endline evaluation. (This is a 36″x36″ poster.)
2021 Spotlight: Central America Emergency Food Relief and Resilience Project
Tuesday, Nov 08, 2022COVID-19 compounded economic and social challenges in rural communities across Central America. In 2021, Episcopal Relief & Development and partners responded by providing 4.4 million meals to 28,000 people in four countries. Learn how implementing partners existing volunteer networks and long-standing community relationships helped to move the project beyond its original goal.
Moments That Matter® Impact Report 2018 – 2021
Tuesday, Oct 11, 2022Moments That Matter® (MTM) is a community-based early childhood development and parenting empowerment program to improve the development, health, and economic outcomes for children aged 0-3. This 2018-2021 MTM Impact Report is a summary of the implementation research, which assessed Primary Caregivers’s knowledge and behavioral changes to responsive care and early learning in Kenya and Zambia.
African Population and Health Resource Center: Endline Summary Report, August 2021
Wednesday, Jul 06, 2022This 2019 endline evaluation summary report highlights findings of the impact, process and cost-effectiveness of the community-based parenting empowerment programs in Kenya and Zambia. The evaluation assessed if the program increased Primary Caregivers’s adoption of high-impact behaviors to improve interactions with children, responsive care, early learning and safety and security.
How To: Host a Respite Space for Young Families | Waltham, MA
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018When a record snowstorm shut down everything, including schools, in a Massachusetts community for almost two weeks, the rector of a local parish opened her church to provide a space for children and their parents to gather for a much-needed break from their enforced isolation and to re-connect.
Ministering to Children After a Disaster (Grades K-5)
Monday, Jan 13, 2014Young children (pre-K through 5th grade) can be particularly traumatized by the effects of a disaster. We can help them express and affirm their feelings of confusion, sadness, and anger while also reminding them how much they and all they love are still cared for by Jesus the Good Shepherd.