NBCDI Website

After exploring some of the other links not explored, I found that the website offers tips on various ways the organization contributes to early childhood through policy, health, family engagement, literacy, and child welfare.  The policy section describes how the organization only supports policies that are good for Black children and families, supports them, and how they can make life better for said families.
The organization focuses on making sure that black children are reading proficiently by the end of the third day.  They have an initiative going on that ensures reading proficiency for children under the age of 8.  The organization believes that because reading proficiency by the end of third grade is a good predictor of educational success, they provide resources to support reading proficiency for African American children under the age of 8.
The National Black Child Development Institute:
1. Ensure that African American culture is recognized, respected and reflected in child welfare practices, by integrating appropriate cultural competence teaching into social work training and prevention practices, and by engaging in community support practices that encourage family-to-family mentoring and kinship care support.
2. Implement targeted efforts to actively recruit foster and adoptive families that reflect the culture and ethnicity of children in out-of-home placement, given the dearth of licensed African American foster families and adoptive parents.
3. Focus attention on the issues of racial disproportionality and service disparities in child welfare systems with the goal of reducing and ultimately eliminating those disparities.
4. Engage in effective prevention efforts, including parenting and family support practices, to keep Black children safely in their homes and reduce the number of Black children removed from their homes.
The website recognizes the disparities for African American children and works to supplement the educational experience for them.