STEPPING STONES PROJECT

Stepping stones program works collaboratively with parents and caregivers to enhance their skills and competencies for responsive and joyful parenting, using a contextually and socio-culturally adaptive program. The Stepping stones program prioritizes the first 1000 days of life as they are crucial for a child's development.

The project is implemented by  School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (DMIHER) which is an esteemed educational University in Central India in collaboration with a chain of private preschools run by Meghe Group and other higher education institutes.

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Fortnightly Home Visits

The Parenting Intervention is designed to provide a variety of play and communication activities

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Caregivers Support Group Meetings

Balsakhi and outreach Staff with support from AWW jointly organizes caregivers support group meeting at respective AWC.

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Nutrition Program

The purpose is to provide nutritional supplements to pregnant and lactating mothers and children.

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Low-cost Play Material Making Workshops

The purpose of these workshops is to support and train caregivers to prepare low-cost ECD play material

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Community Engagement and Awareness

The approach of intervention is through Home Visit. Cadre of Balsakhi are trained to do home visits to the beneficiary.

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Anganwadi Center Support Program

It is one of the unique initiatives from the Stepping Stones Project for creating Early Learning opportunities.

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Success Stories

Promoting Involvement of Males in Childcare and Child Development Activities- A Stepping Stones Project Approach

For raising awareness through Positive Parenting programme of Stepping Stones Project, we have developed a set ofmodules and self-reflective assessment tools which particularly emphasize on participation of males in child care anddevelopment activities.

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Events

In Stepping Stones Project we organize number of events. Which help us to understand the what effect our project is making on ground level. Thus we all knowes events are a useful way to collect data. Data that used to make improvement.

Events we organized:- Sensitization Program, Toy Making Workshop, Photo Dialogue Session, Demonstration Centre, participated in the event titled “SPOTLIGHT ON THE MANY VOICES OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD WORKFORCE” and many more to come.

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