Community Strategic Plan

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Community Strategic Plan

• Collaboration Council for Children, Youth and
  Families
• Board of Directors Meeting
• January 4, 2006

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Todays Meeting

• Review the purpose of Community Strategic Plan
• Review the four phases for plan development
• Take action on the CWBCs recommendations for
  priority needsCompletion of Phase I

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Purpose of the Plan

• Align the communitys work in achieving The
  Childrens Agenda
• Integrate and inform regarding current public
  partner plans and goals
• Serve as a reference document for public and
  private agencies and community members who want
  to become involved and/or are seeking resources
• Prepare for upcoming opportunities
• Enable successful Community Partnership Agreement
  negotiations
• Establish the Collaboration Council's work

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Which Do We Want?

• Strategic Plan
• A disciplined package of approaches which, taken
  together, has a reasonable chance of turning the
  curve and represents and efficient and defensible
  use of resources.

• The Alternative
• A continuation of throwing money at the
  problems, or funding programs on the basis of
  speculation, popularity or political clout.

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Process for Plan Development
1) Community Environment-- Needs Assessment
2) PRIORITY NEEDS
StakeholdersPlans Proposals for funding
StakeholdersPlans Proposals for funding
3) Community Strategic Plan Outcomes, Indicators,
Strategies, Action Steps, Evaluation Adjustment
4) Collaboration Council Work Plan
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Tasks and Time Line
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Phase I Identification of Priority Needs

• Definition of Need
• The gap between the current reality or situation
  and our goals for children, youth and families as
  found in The Childrens Agenda
• Needs Assessment What Do We Know?
• Community Strategic Plan Needs Assessment
  Workbook--summary of 38 identified needs in
  community by three focus areas, using a variety
  of information sources

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Phase I Identification of Priority Needs

• Narrowing the Focus
• Broadest From all of the possible needs for
  child well-being in the County, the 38 needs that
  are commonly identified as concerns
• More Narrow Of all the possible needs, the
  needs that must be addressed now to make the most
  effective impact on the well-being of children
• Most Narrow The needs that the Collaboration
  Council has a proactive (leadership, resources)
  role in addressing based on its mission and
  values.

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CWBC Process

• Identified criteria for more objective
  decision-making process
• Used criteria to rank the identified needs
• Considered the Collaboration Councils potential
  roles with each need
• Considered interrelationships between needs

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1. Identified Criteria

• Criteria required to determine priority
  needs--Priority-setting is coherent,
  well-thought-out and defensible.
• CWBC Identified Two Types of Criteria for
  Determining Priority Needs
• Importance
• Feasibility

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Importance Criterion

• Immediacy of attention required
• Magnitude of gap discrepancy between the needs
  and our goals or vision
• Beneficial impact on resolving other needs
• Numbers of youth/families directly affected by
  need
• Community stakeholder perception of importance
• December 23, 2005 Memo to Board, page 5

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Feasibility Criterion

• Community commitment and will to resolve need
• Extent to which resources are or will become
  available
• Community stakeholder perception of the extent of
  current attention and resources.
• December 23, 2005 Memo to Board, page 6

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2. Ranked the Needs

• Within each focus area
• Early Childhood
• Youth Development
• Children with Intensive Needs
• Statistical analysis?Numeric score
• More consideration for proactive attention given
  by CWBC to needs scoring at or above the mean
• December 23, 2005 Memo to Board, pages 7-9

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3. Considered Collaboration Council Roles

• Potential roles for each need
• Leadership in planning and/or system-building
• Resource enhancement or reallocation
• Direct services funding
• Research and/or monitor data
• Advocacy and public awareness
• More than one role for each need
• Screener was the potential proactive roles
  (leadership and resources) of Collaboration
  Council
• All 38 identified needs indicator data tracked
  advocacy
• December 23, 2005 Memo to Board, pages 10-16

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4. Found Interrelationships Between Some Needs

• One of needs formed overarching statement with
  other needs within it
• Some needs clustered or bundled together in
  anticipation of common strategies
• Also considered the interagency, collaborative
  mission and values of the Collaboration Council

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Priority NeedsEarly Childhood

• SCHOOL READINESS
• Some young children are not ready for school
• Reliance on parent fees jeopardizes child care
  availability
• Poor emotional health jeopardizes school
  readiness
• Few early care and education programs are
  accredited

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Priority NeedsEarly Childhood

• DEVELOPMENTAL CONCERNS
• Childrens developmental concerns must be
  addressed early
• PARENTAL SUPPORT
• Support not fully available for parents as their
  children's first teachers
• Investigations for child abuse neglect are
  increasing

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Priority NeedsYouth Development

• SCHOOL-RELATED
• Gaps in academic success for certain groups
• Youth attachment to school varies with
  race/ethnicity.
• EMOTIONAL HEALTH
• Insufficient services to promote childrens
  mental health and intervene early
• Immigrant youth have special stresses from family
  separation and reunification

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Priority NeedsYouth Development

• SAFETY
• Many youth feel unsafe in home, school and
  communities
• Juvenile offenses and gang presence growing
  threats
• RISKY BEHAVIORS
• Substance abuse threatens to increase as funding
  declines
• Early and risky sexual activity shown in STDs and
  adolescent pregnancy
• Childhood obesity on the rise

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Priority NeedsChildren with Intensive Needs

• SYSTEMS-BUILDING
• Parents face multiple uncoordinated access points
• Resources are directed at the most restricted
  levels of care
• Family and agency resources are not coordinated.

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Priority NeedsChildren with Intensive Needs

• DIRECT SERVICES CAPACITY-BUILDING
• Mental health treatment for youth
• Respite carecrisis and planned
• Adolescent substance abuse treatment

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Overriding Priority

• CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
• Early Childhood
• Poor emotional health jeopardizes school
  readiness
• Youth Development
• Insufficient services to promote childrens
  mental health and intervene early
• Immigrant youth have special stresses from family
  separation and reunification
• Children with Intensive Needs
• Mental health treatment for youth

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BOARD DECISION-MAKING

• Are these recommended priority needs the
  appropriate, pro-active focus of attention for
  the Collaboration Council over the next three
  years?
• Can we make significant progress in these need
  areas in improving the well-being of children,
  youth and families?
• Consequences of the Boards decision
• Collaborative commitment of public agencies
• Focus for content of the final Community
  Strategic Plan document
• Child Well-Being and Workgroups responsible for
  implementation
• Organizational resources
• Accountability