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KEEPING SCOREBuilding an Internal and External Gang Strategy
School, Community & City-Wide Gang Strategies
Presenter:Sarah SunderlinSenior Research AnalystDivision of Youth ServicesU.S. Department of Labor
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First things first……..
Setting realistic expectations What are we doing now? Where are we heading? How are we going to get there? Who needs to be involved?
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Keeping Score
Assessment What strategies do we currently use?
A. Intervention B. Prevention C. Suppression D. A combination
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Keeping Score
Assessment What is the REAL problem? What’s working? What’s NOT working? How do we assess the above?
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Keeping Score
Assessment Who is tasked with answering these
questions? Do we need partners to help identify
these answers? If we can’t help, who can? What’s our
referral process?
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Keeping Score
Implementation
Assessment
Strategy
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Keeping Score
Who will be assigned to monitor the progress of reducing youth involvement with gangs?
Assign a team to help track the various strategies to ensure enough oversight.
Set realistic benchmarks
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Keeping Score – Internal vs. External
Internal School District Staff Program Staff Teachers Parents Service Providers Community
Residents Law Enforcement
External Law Enforcement Mayors Office Corrections/
Probation/Parole Local Government Social Services Faith-based Orgs. Youth Councils Community
Programs
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Keeping Score - The Score CardDeveloping an Internal Strategy by Building Sustainable Partnerships
Partners Role Shared Goal
Benchmarks Investment Commitment & Sustainability
Teachers
Case Managers
Principal
Superintendent
Parents
Community Residents
Youth Service Providers
Security
Community & Faith-based Organizations
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What Role does each partner have?
Partner Role
Teachers What role do they play in the gang reduction plan?Are they currently at the table? Are they a partner, leader, consultant, resource?
EG. A teacher is able to identify gang activity in the classroom.
Parents EG. Identify gang activity in the community. Work with Teachers in the assessment of at-risk youth
Service Providers EG. Can be resource for youth on providing activities outside of school hours.
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Working towards a Shared GOAL
Partner Shared Goal
How will each partner contribute to the Gang Reduction Plan? What is their strategy and/or contribution to your plan?
Superintendent To provide a safe school environment for all studentsTo ensure services are coordinated with Teachers
Case Managers Are all partners working towards the same shared goal?
Teachers Is the plan shared with each partner?
Parents and Community
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Measuring Success
Partner Benchmarks
School District How is success measured? What will be monitored and how?
Parents Is it realistic to eradicate gangs from the community?
Community Is meeting once a year enough time to develop a good working relationship with each partner towards building a common goal?
Service Providers
Will putting all at-risk youth in a conflict prevention class actually reduce gang violence and participation?
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Partnership Investment
Partner Investment
Teachers What interest do Teachers have in this shared plan/goal?
Parents Why should parents be involved? How will you keep them engaged in this process?Have you invited parents to see what your school/program is currently doing?
School Security Why should security get involved? What invested interest do they have towards the overall goal?
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Partnership Commitment
Partners Commitment & Sustainability
Principal What commitment will the Principal provide to sustain efforts towards the shared goal?
Community/Faith-based partners
How will a commitment be made and/or monitored? Will it be a signed or verbal commitment?
Parents How will you maintain a parents involvement? What invested interest do they have currently?
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The Score CardInternal Strategy – Building Partnerships
Partners Role Shared Goal
Benchmarks Investment Commitment & Sustainability
Teachers
Case Managers
Principal
Superintendent
Parents
Community Residents
Youth Service Providers
Security
Community & Faith-based Organizations
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Assessing the Internal Strategy
Once you have established key partners and defined each responsibility, enter this on the scorecard template.
Assess who is “not at the table” that you think would add substantial value to your strategy.
Add them to the scorecard as “potential” partners.
Set a goal and come back to measure your success, 3, 6, 9 months later.
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Monitoring Internal Activities
Listing activities that your program and partners can actively achieve within a set time period, will help measure where you are and where you would like the program to be six months from now. For example, listing certain outreach
activities can help measure who does what when, and/or what you hope to do, next month, next year.
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Keeping ScoreActivity Score Card
Activity Strategy Evidence of Success
January 2010 February 2010
Parental Involvement
To invite parents to gang prevention classes
Write here the date, activity, participants, outcomes desired and the outcomes achieved.
Community Engagement
Schedule community events
E.g.. scheduled our first community event on providing services for out-of-school youth
Staff Training Gang training Describe what you plan to do and what the outcomes are.
Mentoring Each enrolled youth will have a mentor by March 2010
Tattoo Removal
Coordinate our youth with this service
Establish link with this service provider
Research this program initiative in our area
Offer this service to youth who have left gangs
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Keeping ScoreOther Activity Ideas
Youth Council
Out-of-School Youth Outreach
Community Meetings
Peer-to-peer mediation
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Record – Monitor - Review
To keep the Score Card simple set activity monitoring to a three/four month cycle.
Record each months activities Review at the end of your target
evaluation date and refine your goals for the next three month period. Add new activities.
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Developing an External Strategy – Building Partnerships
Partners Role Shared Goal
Frequency of Meetings
Investment Commitment & Sustainability
Law Enforcement
Corrections Department
Social Services
Mayors Office
Youth Councils
Faith-based Org.
Local Government
City Council
Employment Programs
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Keeping ScoreExternal Partnership Roles
Law Enforcement Corrections Department Social Services Mayors Office Youth Councils Faith-based Org. Local Government City Council Employment Programs
Partners Role
Law Enforcement Describe the role of each partner and how they will be involved.
Mayors Office E.g.. Three staff members will contribute one hour of time to the shared project.
Employment Programs
E.g.. Marianne from the local WIB will attend all city-wide meetings.
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Keeping ScoreExternal Partnership Goals
Law Enforcement Corrections Department Social Services Mayors Office Youth Councils Faith-based Org. Local Government City Council Employment Programs
Partners Goals
Law Enforcement How will this partner contribute to the Shared Vision/Goal of your mission?
Mayors Office What is their strategy or contribution?
Employment Programs
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Keeping ScoreExternal Partnership Investment
Law Enforcement Corrections
Department Social Services Mayors Office Youth Councils Faith-based Org. Local Government City Council Employment Programs Community Based Org.
Partners Investment
Law Enforcement
How does this partner demonstrate an invested interest in the overall strategy?
Mayors Office
Employment Programs
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Keeping ScoreExternal Partnership Commitment
Law Enforcement Corrections Department Social Services Mayors Office Youth Councils Faith-based Org. Local Government City Council Employment Programs Community Based Org.
Partners Commitment & Sustainability
Law Enforcement How will this partner demonstrate their commitment to their goal?
Mayors Office How will this partner contribute towards the sustainability of the shared vision?
Employment Programs
Is this partner already involved in this vision? If so, how will this be collaborated?
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Developing an External Strategy – Building Sustainable Partnerships
Partners Role Shared Goal
Frequency of Meetings
Investment Commitment & Sustainability
Law Enforcement
Corrections Department
Social Services
Mayors Office Youth Councils
Faith-based Org.
Local Government
City Council
Employment Programs
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External Activities Score Card
Activity Strategy Evidence of Success
Gang Prevention /Intervention Efforts
January 2010
Gang Prevention/Intervention Efforts
February 2010
Steering Committee Meeting
Participants Purpose and goal
Did you add any new partners this month? How did they contribute?
Material Distribution
Gang Mapping
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Keeping Score – Activity Monitoring
Activity Steering Committee Meetings Material Distribution Gang Mapping Training Cross-agency meetings Community Awareness Newsletter Orientation Activity Organizing Events
Strategy Evaluation Date/Month
What, when, where.
Benchmarks & measurements of success
The date of activity, who participated.
Outcomes&Planned Activities
How many youth are the target of this activity?What type of youth? At-risk, ex-offenders, former gang members?
Outcomes desired, outcomes achieved.
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FINAL SCORE
Assessing the strategy after implementation Are we on target with our plan? Have we leveraged resources to assist
with our sustainability plan? Is our target population receiving the
necessary services to achieve the best possible outcomes? If so, how are we measuring this?
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For more information regarding the SCORE CARD
Contact Sarah SunderlinSenior Research Analyst