Choosing Headline Indicators

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The State of Florida's Child

• Choosing Headline Indicators
• Florida Children and Youth Cabinet
• July 30, 2009

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Topics today
Topics today

• Where we are with results accountability
• Discussion and selection of priority indicators
• Discussion, timeline and tasks/responsibilities
  moving forward

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Progress to date
We are here sort of!
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Choosing headline indicators
Choosing headline indicators

• Which indicator is most important to change?
• If you had to explain the indicator to your
  neighbors and colleagues, is it compelling and
  does it make common sense?
• Does the indicator measure something that has a
  major impact on the result we want?

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The most important indicators

• Measure the outcomes of a population as a means
  of tracking progress toward desired results
• Include positive outcomes
• Are predictive of current well-being
• Are predictive of subsequent well-being

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Guiding concepts for this meeting

• Indicators should tell the extent to which
  children have made progress
• No more than 3 to 5 headline indicators in each
  goal area
• Each goal area as important as the other
• Cabinet preference for upstream vs.
  downstream indicators
• State of the art elusive in ready to learn and
  succeed goal area
• Hesitancy on indicators from survey data

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Key premises for this meeting

• Healthy child development
• Prevention-based, family-focused health care
• Young children are affected by parents and
  environment
• Quality early learning settings
• Stable, nurturing families lead to strong
  communities and states
• Improved communities lead to improved
  developmental outcomes for children

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Common concepts

• Primary prevention
• Earliest intervention
• Family-centric
• Adult-child relationships
• Environments in which the child lives and learns
• Developmental capacity (capability to perform or
  produce) of the child

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Discussion and adoption
Discussion and adoption

• 2 to 3 headline indicators for each goal area

If better is possible, then good isnt
enough. - Emily, who has spina bifida
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Every Florida child is healthy

• Mothers beginning prenatal care in the first
  trimester
• Children without health insurance
• Children with a medical home or primary health
  care provider (a primary care practice that
  provides them with accessible, continuous and
  coordinated care)
• Children receiving annual preventive dental and
  health services

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Every Florida child deserves a stable and
nurturing family
Stable and nurturing families

• Children living in families with income below the
  poverty threshold
• Child abuse and neglect
• Teen births

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Safe and supportive communities

• Domestic violence
• Condition of housing
• Homeless children
• Children participating in quality after-school
  programs

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Ready to learn and succeed

• Children at or within 9 of their developmental
  capacity
• Children read to by their parents and relative
  caregivers
• Mothers education level
• Births to mothers with less than 12 years of
  education
• Children in households where the household head
  is a high school dropout
• Quality early learning settings
• Programs with NAEYC accreditation or that meet
  Head Start performance standards
• Family child care homes accredited by the
  National Association for Family Child Care
  (NAFCC)

• Early care-giver training/education
• Early childhood staff with CDA or equivalent
• Early childhood staff with an associates degree
• Early childhood staff with bachelors degree
• Early childhood staff with masters degrees
• Quality VPK
• benchmarks met on NIEER quality standards
  checklist (currently 4/10)

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Floridas report card
Ready to be written!
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The task of the leader is to get people from
where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
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Future steps

• September Cabinet meeting
• 2 to 3 years beyond

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History of the indicators
History of the indicators

• What are past trends for priority indicators?
• Why have the trends gone the way they have?
• What is the forecast for priority indicators?
• Do we need more information?

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Where do we want to be?
Where do we want to be?

• What target levels would the state like to see,
  and by when?

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What works?
What works

• The State of Floridas Child Report provides
  effective, research-based strategies
• Which of these would work for us?

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Who are our partners?
Who are our partners?

• What are their roles? How do we engage them and
  coordinate progress?
• What is each state agency doing to support
  improving the outcomes?
• What are others doing to support improving the
  outcomes?
• What is missing?

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Action plans
Action plans

• What we propose to do multi-year
• Community system of services and supports
• Performance measures
• How well programs, services, supports, agencies
  and all those included in the action plan are
  working

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How do we track progress?
How do we track progress?
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Budget
Budget

• Design analysis
• Scope
• Whats in? Whats out?
• Data assembly and creation of spending database
• Factual reference or policy recommendations?
• Circulate for review, revise, publish and
  distribute
• Use in executive and legislative branch decision
  making processes

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Sample childrensbudget
Desired outcome
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Wand who?hen
When and who?

• SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP
• History of the indicators trends over past
  several years
• Where do we want to be? - target
• What works to turn the curve in our state? do
  we need more information/research?
• Who are our partners? What are their roles? How
  do we engage them and coordinate progress?
• What is each state agency doing to support
  improving the outcomes?
• What are others doing to support improving the
  outcomes?
• What is missing?
• Multi-year action plans
• How do we track progress?
• Budget Gay Lancasters committee at work