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New ECI Report Summarizes
First Six Months of Katrina Recovery
 MAY 12, 2006 | A new report
from the Mississippi State University
Early Childhood
Institute summarizes the first six months of rebuilding
child care services in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area of
Mississippi.
Read the report, “After Katrina: Rebuilding Mississippi’s Early
Childhood Infrastructure; The First Six Months,”
here or download
the print edition.
The report briefly describes three phases of the rebuilding
effort -- damage assessments, recovery, and sustainability –
that have followed the Aug. 29 hurricane. It emphasizes the
collaboration by MSU, corporations, foundations, nongovernmental
organizations, and a grassroots coalition of Mississippians who
rapidly raised and contributed more than $5 million for the
initiative.
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One feature of the report is a
map that pinpoints
locations of licensed child care centers in the southern
counties by the types of assistance they have received.
The major donors to the initiative have been the
W. K.
Kellogg Foundation,
Save the Children,
Chevron, the contributors to the coalition
Embrace
Mississippi’s Children, the We Will Rebuild ’92
initiative in Florida, the
Children’s Defense
Fund, the Community
Foundation of Northwest Mississippi, and the
Community Foundation
of Greater Jackson, as well as three anonymous donors
who contributed $500,000 each.
Cathy Grace, Ed.D., director of ECI and a professor at
Mississippi State University, has spearheaded the recovery
initiative. Connie Clay, M.S., directs the Rebuilding After
Katrina Project; Lynn Darling, Ph.D., coordinates the Embrace
Mississippi’s Children coalition. Elizabeth F. Shores, M.A.P.H.,
edited the report, while Lynn Bell designed and produced the web
and print editions. Geographer Erin Wilson, of the Community
Information Resources Center (CIRC) of the Rural Policy Research
Institute at the University of Missouri, produced the maps for
the Early Childhood Atlas,
a joint project of CIRC and ECI.
46 Blackjack Rd. / P.O. Box 6013
/ Mississippi State, MS / 39762 / tel. 662-325-4836 / fax 662-325-5436
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Updated
11/22/2006
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