Overview Strategic Plan 20062007

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OverviewStrategic Plan2006-2007
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Strategic Planning Process Spring Fall 2006

• Primary Goals (1) to update 2005 plan given
  program re-organization, (2) develop strategies
  to diversify funding-base
  
• Looked at internal and external issues
• Revised mission, vision, values
• Revised program descriptions, strategies, and
  outcomes
  
• Identified strategies to expand and diversify
  funding base

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Members of Committee, Meeting Schedule

• Committee Chaired by Rick Jaramillo, Bank of
  America, CC Board Member
  
• Other active participants included seven other
  Board Members, five Partners Council members, two
  other community members and Senior Staff
  
• Committee met eight times from April to November
  2006
  
• Process was facilitated by Joe Synan, Leadingwell
  Associates
  

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Providing Context

• How many young children in region?
• Criteria for child well-being (poverty, education
  of parents, access to early education)
  
• Rationale for investing in very young children

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Number of Young Children in Gulf Coast
Region

• 2,069,657 children, 0 5 years, live in Texas
• 493,740 children 0 5 years, (almost 25 of
  Texas total), live in Gulf Coast region
  
• 95 (468,303) of young children in Gulf Coast
  region live in five counties (Harris, Ft. Bend,
  Montgomery, Brazoria, Galveston)

Source Texas Kids Count, U.S. Census Data, 2003
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Population of Young Children in
Five Largest Counties
Of five most populous counties in Gulf Coast
Region, Harris County is by far the largest,
making up over three quarters of the young
children, birth through age five, in these
counties.
Source Texas Kids Count, U.S. Census Data, 2003
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Demographics of Young Children in Texas Gulf Coast
There is significant diversity among the 493,737
children 0 5, who live in the Gulf Coast
Region.

Source Texas Kids Count, U.S. Census Data, 2003
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Factors that Impact Child Outcomes
Family Income and Education

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Indicators Correlated to Child Outcomes Income,
Education of Parents

• Children showed more cognitive, language and
  social competence when parents were more
  educated, had higher incomes and provided home
  environments that were emotionally supportive and
  cognitively enriched.

Income
Source National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, The NICHD Study of Early
Child Care and Youth Development Findings for
Children up to Age 4 ½ Years, August 2006
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Correlation of Income and Education to
Vocabulary Development
Source Hart Risley, Meaningful Differences in
the Everyday Experience of Young American
Children, 1995
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Annual Household Income for Harris, Fort
Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria and Galveston Counties
Source American Community Survey, 2003
U.S. Census Bureau
for Houston
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Poverty Level falls far below what is necessary
to meet basic needs

• The federal poverty level for a family of three
  is 16,600/yr., 20,000/yr. for a family of four
  
• To meet basic needs in Harris County area, family
  of three needs 39,994 a year
  
• Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF,
  replaced welfare) is 193/month(2,316/year)
  for a family of three
  

Sources U.S. Health and Human Services, Federal
Poverty Guidelines, 2006 Center for Public
Policy Priorities, Family Security Index
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Child Poverty in Gulf
Coast Region
Nearly 70,000 young children, 0 5 years, live
in poverty in regions five largest counties
Source American Community Survey, 2003, U.S.
Census Bureau
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Educational Attainment of Adults Five Largest
Counties in Region
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Education Impacts Income!
Source U. S. Census Bureau, 2002
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Children in Child Care Number of Children in Car
e, Quality of Care

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Families with All Parents in the Workplace,
Children Under 6

• 55 of young children in 4 largest counties
  (242,573 families) have all parents working
  
• Working parents choose between relative care,
  residential care by non-family adult,
  center-based care

Source American Community Survey, U.S. Census
Bureau, 2004
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Types and Numbers of Licensed Child Care Centers
and Registered Homes

• 2,058 licensed child care centers in Gulf Coast
  Region
  
• 2,464 registered family homes in region
• Unknown number of children in informal care by
  relative, neighbor, friend, nanny.

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Licensing Standards -- Lead Teacher
Education
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Licensing Standards -- Teacher to Child
Ratios
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Child Care Centers Meeting Minimum Licensing
Standards
Monitoring Plans of Licensed Child Care
Monitoring Plans Defined 1 Requires frequent m
onitoring (3-5 months), problems with meeting
standards 2 More frequent monitoring (6-9 months
) due to past problems 3 Typically meets minimum
standards (visits 10-12 months)
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Number of Accredited Child Care Centers in Region

• 6 of the 2,058 licensed child care centers in 13
  county Region are accredited by the National
  Association for the Education of Young Children
  (NAEYC)

Source NAEYC Website
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Case for Investing in Young Children Components
of Collaborative for Children Strategic Plan

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Why is it important to invest in Young Children?
Three Main Reasons
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Why is it important to invest in Young Children?

• Scientific Evidence

Source Neurons to Neighborhoods, The Science of
Early Childhood, National Academy Press, 2001
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Why is it important to invest in Young Children?
Economic Evidence
High quality early education is the most highly
leveraged education investment a community can
make with significant returns on investment.
Three longitudinal studies have demonstrated that
quality early education contributes to

• Reduced special education costs, lower grade
  repetition, higher high school graduation and
  college participation rates.

Source Perry Preschool Project, Abecederian
Project, Chicago Parent Child Study, Texas AM
Bush School of Government and Public Service
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Why is it important to invest in Young Children?
Community Benefit
80 of new jobs in our economy require an
education beyond high school.

• Children who reach kindergarten school ready
  are more likely to master reading and math and be
  able to succeed in higher level courses using
  thinking skills required by the jobs of the
  21st Century economy.

• Children who complete high school and go on to
  college will generate higher incomes, have lower
  involvement in the criminal justice system and
  reduced dependence on social services.

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Mission Revised
New Mission Building a strong educational found
ation for young children to succeed in school and
life.
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Vision Revised
New Vision
for the Texas Gulf Coast Region
Quality early education and care for all
children, beginning at birth.
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Values Revised

• Excellence
• Knowledge
• Professionalism
• Collaboration
• Diversity
• Accountability

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Collaborative for Children Investing to Achieve
our Vision
V I S I O N
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Family Engagement

• Highlights of Plan Key Strategies
• Expanding investment in parent education
• Staff trained on Positive Behavior Support
  Curriculum
  
• Staff trained on Practical Parenting Curriculum
• Launching Quality Indicator System to provide
  parents with additional information on quality of
  early education programs

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Family Engagement

• Highlights of Plan
• Key Strategies (continued)
• Promoting Single Point of Entry
• for parents trying to determine
• eligibility for early education
• programs
• Maintain national accreditation
• of Child Care Resource and Referral System
• Expand parent volunteer training in schools to
  provide part-time assistant to teachers in PreK
  and K classrooms

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Family Engagement

• Measuring Impact
• 2006 Goal of serving 18,000 families, with
  60,840 children
  
• 2007 Goal of serving19,800 families, with
  66,920 children

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Example of Metric in Family Engagement
Calls to Resource and Referral Center
Total Clients Served Q 1-3 2005 13,029
Total Clients Served Q 1-3 2006 14,817 ( 13.7)

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Provider Engagement

• Highlights of Plan Key
  Strategies
  
• Expand visibility at professional development
  conferences with information tables,
  presentations
  
• Make better utilization of
• website to promote services,
• training opportunities
• Introduce fees for service training program

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Provider Engagement

• Highlights of Plan Key Strategies
• Continue to impact quality of early
• education programs through
• Program Assessment and Quality
• Improvement Plan development
• Mentoring Directors and Teachers
• Modeling appropriate practices in classrooms
• Offering Professional Development through
  training/coaching
  
• Providing financial resources and incentives
  (scholarships, bonuses for course completion)
  
• Coaching centers on achieving national
  accreditation

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Provider Engagement

• Measuring Impact
• 2006 Goal of partnering with approximately 200
  early
  
• education programs and
• 2,500 directors and teachers
• serving 37,500 children
• 2007 Goal of partnering with 250 early
  education programs and 3,000 directors and
  teachers serving 45,000 children

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Example of Assessment Results of Bright Beginn
ings Quality Improvement Initiative
Source Bright Beginnings Evaluation, University
of Houston School of Education Frank Porter
Graham Child Development Center, Environmental
Rating Scales, national tool used to assess early
education programs
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Community Engagement

• Highlights of Plan Key Strategies
• Speakers Bureau
• Speaker toolkit to include video making
• case for investing in early education,
• presentations tailored to different
• audiences
• Plan lecture series inviting nationally known
  experts in field to share latest scientific and
  economic research related to early childhood
  
• Partner with medical community to improve early
  literacy and healthy development of children

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Community Engagement

• Highlights of Plan Key Strategies (continued)
• Plan and begin to pilot major early childhood
  initiative, with goal to increase school
  readiness, third grade reading levels, and high
  school completion
• City of Houston
• HISD, other school districts
• Texas Childrens Hospital
• Others

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Community Engagement Legislative Agenda 2007

• State Legislative Agenda for 2007
• Increase professional development resources for
  infant/toddler classrooms
  
• Improve quality and expand access to
  Prekindergarten
  
• Increase training for child care directors and
  teachers, with special focus on teachers of
  infants and toddlers
  
• Increase reimbursement rates for
• child care programs participating in
  subsidized child care

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Community Engagement

• Measuring Impact
• 2006 Prepare tools for Speakers Bureau, develop
  legislative agenda
  
• 2007 Speakers Bureau volunteers recruited and
  trained, Speakers Bureau promoted to business,
  medical, faith-based and parent groups Progress
  made on at least two of four items in legislative
  agenda pilot launched for major early education
  initiative

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Partner with Us to Achieve our Vision for the
children in the Gulf Coast Region!

• Dr. Kevin Krull, Texas Childrens Hospital
  Brain development in preschool children is a
  rapid dynamic process. Early intervention and
  prevention are essential!
• The WorkSource Our region needs to improve the
  quality of early childhood education and provide
  access to PreK programs for more children.
  
• HISD College graduation starts in
  prekindergarten!
  
• We have a bold vision for our region and need
  your help to achieve it!