Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners Redesign and Infrastructure Development December 20

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WisconsinEarly Childhood Collaborating Partners
Redesign and Infrastructure Development
December 2006 Web Cast

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WEB CAST SECTIONS

• Introduction
• The Partnership Overview
• State and Regional Structure
• Action Team Roles
• Action Team Membership
• State Support
• Communication and Networking
• Work Plans
• Next Steps

Reference Materials PowerPoint Slides Handout
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WEB CAST GRAPHICS
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Graphic indicates questions for regional
discussion. Note that the discussions can be
adapted for each region.
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THE PARTNERSHIP OVERVIEW
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WisconsinEarly Childhood Collaborating Partners

• Working Together
• To Transform
• Early Childhood Services

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OUR PARTNERSHIP...

• A network of state, regional, and community,
  public and private, state departments, agencies,
  associations, and individuals working together to
  positively impact the lives of young children and
  their families.

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OUR VISION...

• All children in Wisconsin will receive the
  services and family supports they need in order
  to attain their optimal developmental potential
  during the critical years from birth through age
  five.

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OUR MISSION...

• Wisconsin communities, agencies, associations,
  and state government will work together as a
  system of high quality comprehensive early
  childhood services for every child and family who
  wants to access them.

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OUR PARTNERSHIP...

• Began in 1993 with three state- wide summits
• Current redesign began in 2005 with focus to
• incorporate all component areas from ECCS grant
• Strengthen state regional structure

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COMPONENT AREAS
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OUR STRUCTURE

• State level action team, steering committee, and
  state wide network
• Regional level action teams, facilitators, and
  regional networks
• State level support mechanisms staffing
  commitments, regional mini-grants, and coaches
• Communication and networking systems meetings,
  conferences, website, and listservs
• Descriptive materials and documents
• Work plans

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STATE AND REGIONAL STRUCTURE
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STATE-WIDE LEVEL..
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SPECIFIC REGIONAL LEVEL...
Milwaukee
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ACTION TEAMS

• State Action Team specific representatives from
  targeted state departments, agencies, and
  associations
• Regional Action Team regional representatives
  from the targeted state departments, agencies,
  and associations
• May include representatives from community
  councils or others specific to a region
• (This is a redesign of the regional people that
  may have been called the Regional Liaison Team or
  Planning Team.)

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NETWORKS

• State Network anyone in the state participating
  in meetings, events, work plan tasks, and/or
  listserv (encompasses the regional network)
• Regional Network anyone in a specific region
  participating in meetings, events, and/or work
  plans

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STATE STRUCTURE
State Network State Action Team
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REGIONAL STRUCTURE
Regional Networks Regional Action Teams
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WECCP STRUCTURE
State Network State Action Team Regional
Networks Regional Action Teams
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Regional Discussion Questions

• Discuss the revised WECCP structure.
• Note how the regional action team is different
  from the regional network
• Note how the state action team supports both the
  regional action team and regional network

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ACTION TEAM ROLES
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STATE ACTION TEAM ROLES..

• Bring research, best practices, and expectations
  to participants of WECCP and representative
  agencies and association
• Synthesize information, best practices, and
  recommendations from regional teams to inform
  state priorities, policies, and practice
• Support/promote communities in development of
  collaborative service delivery
• Work in collaboration to align efforts,
  initiatives, and grant programs
• Develop and promote consistent, cross department,
  child focused and family-centered policies

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REGIONAL ACTION TEAMS ROLES

• Maintain system-wide representation, convene
  regular meetings, and work as a regional team
• Bring information and best practices to
  represented programs, stakeholders, and network
• Bring information, best practices, and
  recommendations to State Action Team
• Set goals and implement actions in conjunction
  with State Action Team
• Provide a forum for state and regional
  communication

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Regional Discussion Questions

• How does the work your Regional Team is doing
  relate to the proposed roles?
• Are there additional roles currently preformed by
  Regional Teams that need to be included?
• Do you have any other suggestions for State or
  Regional Team roles?

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ACTION TEAM MEMBERS
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STATE ACTION TEAM

• Child Health Alliance of Wisconsin
• Child Care Resource and Referral Network
• Child Care Information Center
• Childrens Service Society Childrens Trust Fund
• Children with Special Health Care Needs Regional
  Centers State Program
• Community Action Program
• DHFS B-3, Child Care Licensing, Early Childhood
  Comprehensive Systems, Maternal Child Health, and
  Public Health
• DPI Early Childhood and Special Education
• DWD Child Care Section
• Great Lakes Inter-tribal Council

• Parents Plus of Wisconsin
• Regional Team (one each)
• The Registry
• UMOS
• UW-Ex-Family Living Agents
• Waisman Center Professional Development Project
• WI Child Care Improvement Project
• WI Council on ChildrenFamilies
• WI Early Childhood Association
• WI Education Association Council
• Head Start Collaboration Office
• WI Head Start Association
• WI Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
  Initiative

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STATE ACTION TEAM

• The State Action Team will consider expansion of
  membership.
• Consideration will include
• how to keep a community focus
• representation at the state/regional level
• relationship to priorities and work plan
• partnership levels

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STATE ACTION TEAMFACILITATION

• A smaller steering committee will guide and
  support the State Action Team and WECCP work plan
  efforts

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REGIONAL ACTION TEAM

• Regional membership parallel the expanded
  membership of the State Action Team and specific
  regional agencies, associations, and/or local
  councils

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REGIONAL ACTION TEAMS

• Birth to 3 Representative
• CESA Early Childhood Coordinator/Program Support
  Teacher
• Child Care Resource and Referral Representative
• Childrens Trust Fund Family Resource Center
• Children with Special Health Care Needs Regional
  Center

• Collaboration Coaches
• DHFS Regional Day Care Licensing Staff
• DHFS Regional Public Health Director/Nurse
  Consultants
• Head Start Director
• Representatives from Local Early Childhood
  Councils

Reference Materials Regional Membership Chart 3
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REGIONAL ACTION TEAMFACILITATION

• Community Collaboration Coaches and CESA Early
  Childhood Coordinators are currently funded to
  provide facilitation
• Facilitation tasks include
• assure component areas representation
• convene meetings and develop agendas
• guide through work plans
• oversee mini-grant
• representation at State Action Team

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Regional Discussion Questions

• Review your regional action team membership and
  discuss if changes need to be made
• Discuss the team facilitation within your region.
  What is working well, what could be changed?

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STATE SUPPORT
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STATE LEVEL SUPPORT

• State agencies and associations commit state
  staff time and regional staff time
• Direct funding, resource allocation, and other
  means to support implementation of work plans
• Providing mini-grants to each region

Reference Materials Current Mini-grant
Application 4
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Regional Discussion Questions

• How has your region used the mini-grants to
  support your regional work?
• What suggestions do you have for the mini-grant
  process?

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COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING
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STATE, REGIONAL, AND NETWORK MEETINGS

• State and Regional Action Team meetings
• Quarterly meetings for State Action Team
• Regional Action Team will be represented at the
  State Action Team
• Regional Meetings TBD
• Networking conferences (video/web casts)
• 3-4 times per year
• For each consider focus and topic, e.g.. state
  team to regional team and/or state team to
  networks

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WEBSITE

• Our website to show-case our collaborative
  efforts on a state and regional basis
• www.collaboratingpartners.com

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LISTSERVS

• WECCP State listserv
• Potential for Regional listserv

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COLLABORATIVE CONFERENCES

• Certain state wide conferences will be designated
  as places to show-case and network

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Regional Discussion Questions

• What meeting structure does your Regional Action
  Team want to adopt?
• How will your Regional Action Team connect with
  your regional network use of website, listserv,
  or other means?
• What suggestions do you have for State to
  Regional communication such as video conferences
  or web casts?
• What others networking or communication
  structures may be helpful?

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WORK PLAN
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STATE WORK PLAN

• A three to four year state level work plan will
  be created aligning
• WECCP Goals, Objectives, Work Plan, and
  Childrens Agenda
• ECCS Goals and work plan
• Expanding Opportunities work plan
• WECCP Braided funding focus areas
• Regional mini-grant priority areas
• Community Collaboration Coaches purpose and
  outcomes

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PROPOSED GOALS

• 1. Wisconsin citizens understand the critical
  importance of the early years, are aware of
  programs and services and can identify the
  qualities that support healthy children and
  families

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PROPOSED GOALS

• 2. Wisconsin assures access to high quality,
  comprehensive, integrated, evidence based
  services for young children and their families in
  the component areas of access to health care/
  medical home early education/care mental
  health/ social emotional development and family
  support/parent education

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PROPOSED GOALS

• 3. Providers of early childhood comprehensive
  services are competent and apply appropriate
  principles of early learning and development,
  family support, parent education, and community
  based health and mental health services

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REGIONAL WORK PLAN

• A one to four year regional work plans will be
  created for each region utilizing existing
  regional efforts, mini-grant priorities, and
  state level work plans.

Reference Materials Current Mini-grant
Application 4
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Regional Discussion Questions

• Discuss the status of your mini-grant application
• Review/draft/consolidate your regional work plan
  to address aspects of the redesign

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NEXT STEPS
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NEXT STEPS

• December/January Regional Action Team Meetings
  (input to redesign)
• January First meeting of State Action Team
  Committees (consider expanded membership,
  steering committee, participation levels, work
  plan, regional input, PDI committee)
• February 8 State and Regional video conference
  or web cast (input on redesigned principles,
  structure, work plan goals, and targets)
• Keep on working for children and families!!!

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INFRASTRUCTUREHARD WORKCOLLABORATIONIs it
worth it?Our children will tell you YES

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
committed citizens can change the
world.Indeed Its the only thing that ever
has.Margaret Mead

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WisconsinEarly Childhood Collaborating Partners

• Working Together
• To Transform
• Early Childhood Services