Transcript What Should a Comprehensive Early Childhood System Deliver?
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How Do We Get There From Here? The Role of the Early Childhood Advisory Council in System Building Helene Stebbins NH Early Childhood Advisory Council Inaugural Meeting September 28, 2011
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Goals
What is a system?
What is the role of the Council in system building?
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What is a System?
A group of related parts that form a complex whole A way of proceeding A set of principles 3
Parts Process Principles
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Parts
Direct Services: Programs/services that directly touch children and families Child care Head Start Medical home/health care Early Intervention Home visiting services Child welfare 4
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Process
Infrastructure:
Efforts that enhance quality and improve access to direct services: Improvement strategies/QRIS PD/support for practitioners Standards Financing Leadership/Governance Stakeholder engagement/public will/communication Accountability/monitoring/data systems 5
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Principles
Values that guide your work.
Serve all children and their families Comprehensive (health, ECE, family supports) Collaborative Racial Equity Cultural Competence Respectful of the role of parents 6
What Results Should a Comprehensive Early Childhood System Deliver?
Comprehensive services that promote children
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s physical, developmental, and mental health Early Learning and Development Nurturing relationships, safe environments, and enriching experiences that foster learning and development Health
Thriving Children and Families
Family Leadership and Support Resources, experiences, and relationships that strengthen families, engage them as leaders, and enhance their capacity to support children
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Values and Principles
Optimally, a comprehensive early childhood system will: Reach all children and families, and as early as possible, with needed services and supports Genuinely include and effectively accommodate children with special needs Reflect and respect the strengths, needs, values, languages, cultures and communities of children and families Ensure stability and continuity of services along a continuum from prenatal into school entry and beyond Ease access for families and transitions for children Value parents as decision makers and leaders Catalyze and maximize investment and foster innovation 7
What Are the Functions of a Comprehensive Early Childhood System ?
Define and Coordinate Leadership Recruit and Engage Stakeholders Ensure Accountability Health Early Learning and Development
Outcome: Thriving Children and Families
Family Leadership and Support Finance Strategically Enhance and Align Standards Create and Support Improvement Strategies
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Kansas ECCS Model 10
Minnesota EC System Functions wilderresearch.org
Michigan ’s Great Start Initiative 12
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What is a System?
A group of related parts that form a complex whole A way of proceeding A set of principles
Parts Process Principles
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System Building
The
act of transforming
a disparate array of programs and infrastructure supports into a coherent system of service delivery that meets the comprehensive needs of young children. 14
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System Building
How do we get there from here?
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What Makes A Successful Council?
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Focus on Outcomes
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Data
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Leadership
Early Childhood Systems Working Group 18
Early Childhood Colorado Framework 19
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Data, Data, Data
Data is the foundation of system building High-quality, coordinated, timely data is very difficult to get.
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Every State Collects ECE Data
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States Collect Child-, Program Site-, and ECE Workforce-Level Data by ECE Program
46 43 42 39 47 40 39 47 43 36 37 40 36 Child Level Data 27 N/A 12 16 12 Program Site-Level Data ECE Workforc e-Level Data Source: Early Childhood Data Collaborative 2010 State Analysis, www.ecedata.org
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Leadership
Articulate the outcomes that will drive the development and use of coordinated state EC data systems.
Evaluate current and future data collection and linkage needs based on the state’s critical policy questions.
Strategically govern data collection and use, including ensuring the privacy, security and confidentiality of EC data.
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Leadership
"[Y]ou want open airing of views and opinions and suggestions upward, but once the policy's decided you want rigorous, disciplined implementation of it. And very often in the government the exact opposite happens. People sit in a room, they don't air their real differences, a false and sloppy consensus papers over those underlying differences, and they go back to their offices and continue to work at cross ‐ purposes, even actively undermining each other.
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