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1.updates from national team

2.updates from you• Idaho webinar

3.early childhood – child welfare linkages

4.data tracking• what’s going on in

kansas

Agenda

Updates from the National Team

Welcome Maine!

Strengthening FamiliesLeadership Summit

October 28-29, 2009

Atlanta, GeorgiaA “Parent Summit” will take place on

Tuesday, October 27th, between NBCDI’s conference and the Strengthening

Families Leadership Summit.

Strengthening Families

Train-the-Trainer

Join us for an informative webinar

September 24, 20083 PM EST/1 PM MST

I’ve been in child care for many years and they’re going to tell me I have the power to prevent the children that I love and care for from being abused? But How? I was doubtful it would even work, but always willing to try

something new, I gave it a shot. Before the series was even completed, we had started implementing it into our center. I was pleasantly surprised to see huge and immediate changes in many of our families. For one instance, we had a mom with several challenges in life. From the class, I noticed the signs, applied what I had learned, put it into action and a week

later the mom told me that because of the large amount of stress in her life, she had come very close to hitting her children out of anger, but after our help, she was able to

remove herself from the path she was headed down. I couldn’t believe how small actions we took forever changed an entire family’s life. It is so amazing to see the difference several months later not only in this family but three others.

Strengthening FamiliesTrain the Trainer Informational Webinar

We will cover:

•How these trainings came about•Training Content and Design•How we are using the training •Testimonials from participants, parents, and trainers

•Contact information

Other Updates from

States?new developments, opportunities, events,

challenges, etc.?

Early Childhood – Child Welfare Linkages

• Update on the ECE-CW (Mailman) work•Support local collaboration between early care and education and child welfare on the ground

•Educate and build the capacity of child welfare workers on the ground

•Integrate the Protective Factors into case practice tools

•Integrate Strengthening Families and the Protective Factors into systems change work

• Upcoming topical call/webinar to orient SFNN members more thoroughly to the work that has been done, discuss new opportunities, etc.

SFNN Data TrackingWhat is the plan for tracking state initiatives?

• SFNN Partners will be experimenting with data collection, using certain agreed-upon data elements, over the next 6 months

• Tracking tools (online survey) will be made available to ALL SFNN members, and Affiliates are encouraged to begin collecting these data as well

What are the data tracking elements?

• There is one category for data collection that deals with Strengthening Families implementation in early care and education programs

• 5 other categories align to the Levers for Change

Strengthening Families Implementation in ECE

• Total number of licensed center-based early childhood programs in the state (CCR&Rs)

• Total number of state funded pre-K slots

• Number slots within those early childhood centers (CCR&Rs)

• Number of registered and or licensed Family Child Care homes in the state (CCR&Rs)

• Number of slots within registered and/or licensed family child care homes in the state (CCR&RS)

• Number of centers completing the Strengthening Families Self Assessment™ and developing action plans (a 10% increase each year) (On-line self-assessment)

• Number of family child care homes completing the self-assessment and developing actions

•Enrollment at these Centers (On-line self-assessment)

• Number of families attending these Centers (On-line self-assessment)

• Total number of individuals receiving information or education on Strengthening Families through outreach efforts.

Parent Partnerships

•Family representatives attending state leadership team meetings (number and percentage for each meeting)

•Hours of leadership training and support offered to parent leaders

•# of active parent orgs engaged in SF efforts

•Resources dedicated to parent engagement (add sub items with definition so we have consistent info)

Training for parents

Stipends

Resources to support engagement (travel, child care, etc)

Parent Partnerships

• Number of workers receiving training in the Strengthening Families™ approach—including protective factors and program strategies

• Early Childhood (Registry or CCR&R professional development tracking system)

Home visitors/family support

Child welfare

Other

• Suggested to design a very simple on=line survey w/about five questions to capture information on trainings delivered outside of the ECE sector. (This will apply to the next item as well)

• Number of person hours of professional development activities in SF including:

trainings

conference presentations,

peer education opportunities

on-line learning and distance learning opportunities

• Number of ECE programs with one or more staff members trained in SF

• Number of college and Universities integrating SF protective factors into their ECE, social work, and psychology courses

• Data from staff tool (tracks changes in staff attitude, skills and behaviors for staff in programs that are using the on-line self-assessment and completing action plans) on-line staff tool

Early Childhood – Child Welfare Linkages

•Number of children 0 to 5 in foster care in ECE setting

•# of children 0-5 in foster care

•Number of case workers receiving Strengthening Families training

•Number of foster parents receiving Strengthening Families training

•Some measure of continuity in Early Childhood settings for children in foster care

Systems Integration

•Number and name of organizations/initiatives represented on the leadership team

•Number and names of organizations that are working to explicitly integrate protective factors into their work?

•Resources directed to implementing Strengthening Families™ (public and private, plus in kind and staff time) for the prior fiscal year. (If a state has not completed a whole year of SFI, please give a total of resources directed to date and implementation period.)

•Names of individuals managing the indicators/data within the state

Infrastructure Changes

No quantitative elements for infrastructure changes at this time.

Kansas