Regional Planning Community Capacity Building

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Regional Planning Community Capacity Building

• Overview

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What is Building Community Capacity?

• Capacity buildingdescribes activity to enhance
  leadership skills, group problem solving,
  collaborative methods, and substantive
  understanding of community assets, problems and
  opportunities among organized, participating
  community residents.
• (McNeely, 1996, p.87 in Mattessich and Roy,
  1997, p.62)

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What is Building Community Capacity?

• Community organizing is a long-term,
  relationship-building and capacity-building
  process that attempts to identify, include, and
  build upon a range of key resources, both
  internal and external to the communityThe
  process includes the identification of key local
  resources, the gathering of information about the
  community context, the development and training
  of local leaders to prepare them to serve
  effectively as representatives of the community
  and as full partners in an initiative, and the
  strengthening of the network of the various
  interests both internal and external to a
  community.
• (Joseph and Ogletree, 1996 in
  Mattessich and Roy, 1997, p.60)

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Regional Planning Approach for all Childrens
Services

• The South East Region proposing that funding
  allocated to community capacity building for each
  initiative (Child Welfare, Best Start) be pooled
  to develop a regional approach that would include
  all children and youth services.
• This would allow for the development of a region
  wide community capacity building table that would
  eventually evolve into a community planning table
  for children and youth services.

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Regional Planning Approach for all Childrens
Services

• The table will give advice and make
  recommendations to the community and the Regional
  Office.
• The specific role of the Regional Planning Table
  will be developed in an evolutionary/community
  development fashion.

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Vision

• The goal is to create a rational, sustainable
  approach to planning and capacity building for
  children aged 0 to 18 years encompassing child
  welfare, childrens mental health, developmental
  services and the Best Start initiative.
• The intended outcome is that services for
  children and youth across the region are provided
  in an equitable, timely and appropriate manner to
  meet needs.

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Current Context

• Community capacity building initiatives are
  underway for the Best Start and Child Welfare
  Transformation initiatives. Additional
  requirements for capacity building are
  anticipated in childrens mental health and
  developmental services.
• Community planning committees exist in various
  stages of development in 4 established planning
  zones for child welfare, mental health and
  developmental services.
• There is also work in progress for Best Start in
  5 planning zones based on the Consolidated
  Municipal Service Manager divisions.

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The Plan

• The Regional Planning Coordinator will facilitate
  the establishment of 4 zone planning tables and a
  regional planning table for all children and
  youth services.
• The regional structure will evolve through a
  community development process from its initial
  focus on capacity building into a planning body
  that provides advice to the community and the
  Regional Office.

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Zone Planning Tables

• Planning and capacity building will be grounded
  by the 4 multi-service zone tables in
• Hastings and Prince Edward
• Frontenac Lennox and Addington
• Lanark
• Leeds Grenville
• Accommodations will be required to integrate the
  five planning zones for Best Start.

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Zone Planning Tables and Regional Planning Table
for Childrens Services
PSL / IH
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Key

• CMH Childrens Mental Health
• DS Developmental Services
• CW Child Welfare
• HU Health Units
• Best Start Best Start
• SB School Boards
• CMSM Consolidated Municipal Service Managers
• VAW Violence Against Women
• CC Child Care
• OEYC Ontario Early Years Centres
• CDC Child Development Centres
• PSL/ IH Pre-school Speech and Language/Infant
  Hearing
• 5th Zone Prince Edward and Lennox and Addington
  counties (CMSM)

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Role of Planning Tables

• The zone planning tables will identify areas of
  strength and areas where improvement is required
  involving representatives from the following
  sectors childrens mental health, developmental
  services, child welfare, Best Start, Health
  Units, school boards, Consolidated Municipal
  Service Managers, domestic violence, child care,
  early years centers, and child development
  centres.
• They will implement the requirements for capacity
  building and planning for Child Welfare
  Transformation and Best Start.

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Coordinated Staff Training Opportunities
Shared Learning Web-Site
Local Zone Planning Tables Local Agencies
Community Capacity Building may Include
Interdisciplinary Teams
Coordinated Software
Increased Case Conferencing
Municipal Councils
Community Information/ Education Sessions
Community Profiles Report Cards
Community Partners/ Public /Groups
Communications Strategy
Regional Planning Table
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Purpose of Community Profiles

• Specific information that will provide service
  providers, parents, professionals, and
  organizations to identify areas of strength and
  vulnerability in the population of young
  children.
• Reveal gaps and indicate the changes needed
• Paint a clearer picture of the neighbourhood
  environments in which our children are growing.
• Serve as a planning tool for service providers to
  facilitate opportunities to respond to identified
  needs and gaps.

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Purpose of Community Profiles

• Become a measuring tool to track improvements in
  the situation of children over time and help
  prompt and guide further research in this area.
• Initiate ongoing collaborative efforts between
  community members, groups, and organizations
  involved in child development
• Serve as a the catalyst in building awareness of
  the needs of children in our community.
• Stimulate community action to help children get
  the best possible start in life. We can all be a
  part of the solution.
• A Vision for Children in Halton
  Report Card

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Community Profiles Possible Indicators

• Education
• Early Development Instrument
• Highest level of schooling
• Educational Quality and Accountability Office
• Grade 3 scores
• Grade 6 scores
• Grade 10 scores (OSSLT)
• School drop out rate
• Special Needs Children

• Family
• Age of Mother
• Lone Parent Families
• -Mother
• -Father
• Number of families with Children 0-19
• Average Family Size
• Home owners

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Community Profiles Possible Indicators

• Income
• Youth employment
• Poverty rate
• Income Dependent on Govt
• Social Housing
• Unemployment Rate
• Median income

• Population
• Population of children
• 0-4
• 5-14
• 15-19
• Language
• Aboriginal
• Francophone
• Growth Rate
• Projected population

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Community Profiles Possible Indicators

• Health
• We are currently working with Public Health to
  identify Health Indicators that can be used in
  the report.
• Health indicators will be selected by Public
  Health based on the data we are able to collect.

• Examples may include
• Low birth weight babies
• Premature births
• Age of mother at birth
• Child Safety injuries for children
• Food Securtiy
• Teen Pregnancy
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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Community Profiles Possible Indicators
Appendix to ReportMCYS-MCSS Funded Agencies Data
Elements

• Data elements can be pulled from all MCYS/ MCSS
  funded agencies service agreements to include in
  the report as an appendix.
• Items such as Number of children in care,
  caseload statistics, child care subsidy etc.

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Regional Planning Role

• The regional planning table will be led by the
  Regional Planning Coordinator and will have
  representation from each of the zone planning
  tables.
• It will function as an advisory body to the
  Regional Office. Ultimately, the regional
  planning table must

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Regional Planning Role

• Provide a regional approach to meeting the needs
  of children across zones, across program streams
  and across sectors (social services, health,
  education) while reflecting the uniqueness of the
  individual zones
• Be comprehensive in priority setting and planning
  for the spectrum of services (prevention,
  intervention, treatment) and programs for
  children and families
• Develop a capacity to collate and analyze data
  from various sources

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Regional Planning Role

• Set priorities for services and activities based
  on available data and information about effective
  practices
• Provide advice to the Ministry on matters
  including allocation of resources based on needs
  of children rather than program boundaries
• Assist the Ministry and the four planning zones
  in managing cross-sector service delivery
  functions notably case resolution mechanisms and
  the allocation of resources for children with
  complex special needs.

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Contact Information

• David Remington
• Regional Co-ordinator
• Community Capacity Building
• remingtond_at_seregion.ca
• [phone]