Early Childhood Development
AKRO collaborates with the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York, Overlap Associates, the Maxwell X Lab, and experts in trauma-informed care to expand the use of human-centered design to support early childhood development. By meeting parents, families, and communities where they are it becomes easier to co-design improvements in partnership with the people experiencing the problem (whatever it might be).
We provide a variety of services including ecosystem mapping, stakeholder analysis, open data analytics, interactive dashboard development, and the use of human-centered design for outreach and engagement.
Are you working to improve early childhood development in your community?
Decentralized Learning and Capacity-Building
Co-Creating Well-Being is working across 16 counties and has already reached more than 150 organizations. We use a collaborative approach to designing capacity-building materials. Self-Study materials are supported by online webinars, remote coaching, and in-person facilitation. Click here to learn more about Co-Creating Well-Being
Listening to Clients With Light-Touch Tools
Here are some examples of postcardfs collected for insights analysis. Visit www.cocreatingwellbeing.com for more information on this new initiative from the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York.
Human-Centered Design Training
Co-Creating Well-Being kicked off in Fall 2018 with training in human-centered design and trauma-informed care for WNY and CNY providers of early childhood programs and services.
Over 100 agencies and 300 individuals participated in Design Days. Our HCD work is structured by the Design Thinking Process, as described and facilitated by Overlap Associates.
