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Helping Families Receive the Best Start in Life
Check In AOK History AOK Communities Conceptual Framework Advancing Collaborative Leadership Roadmap Examples of collaborative activities
Overview
Neurons to Neighborhoods: Child outcomes can be improved through carefully planned prevention & intervention strategies
State and Local Connections
Creation of the All Our Kids (AOK) Early Childhood Networks
Importance of the Early Years
Adams County Carroll County Kane County McHenry County McLean County Rock Island County Southeast Chicago
St. Clair County Stephenson County Tazewell County Town of Cicero Wabash & Edwards
County Will County
Where are the AOK Networks?
Parents
The All Our Kids Early Childhood Network is a community-based
collaboration committed to enhancing a high-quality, well-coordinated, easily-accessible
System of Services and Supports that promotes the positive growth and development of expecting parents and
families with children birth to 5.
State Mission
Big Ideas:
• Focus is on strengthening the System of Services and Supports for families with young children
• Collaborative effort to address system issues that are beyond the scope of individual agencies
• Goal is to create greater collective impact regarding child and family outcomes by improving the system
Community Engagement
• Network Collaboration and Capacity
Family Support• Service Delivery
System Building • System of Services & Support
Guiding Principles
Big Ideas:
• 3 sets of principles
• Principles guide how we carry out our work as a Network, in service delivery, and as we enhance the System of Services and Supports
• Principles help us create greater coherence in our collective work in all three areas
Network Capacity
Health
MentalHealth
Early Learnin
gSocial Service
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Family Support
Faith Based
Big Ideas:
• Network consists of diverse stakeholders who care about families with young children
• Capacity refers to our ability to collaborate, share responsibility, and be adaptive and self-renewing regardless of changes in policy, funding, programming, etc.
• Network capacity influences our ability to impact the System of Services and Supports and child and family outcomes
Parents Caregive
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System of Services and Supports
Early Identification
Public Information& Education
Information& Referral
Coordination of Care
Service Needs& Utilization
Workforce Staffing& Development
Policy
Access
Quality
Equity
Capacity
Satisfaction
SystemImpact
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Systems Building
Strategies
Big Ideas:
• Networks strengthen the System of Services and Supports through 7 System-Building Strategies
• Strategies can be addressed directly or as strategies for addressing local child and family priorities
• Improving the System through these strategies results in System Impacts, which in turn lead to better outcomes for children and families
Identification of all expecting parents and children birth to five
Early identification of developmental delays or other issues
The earlier problems are identified, the better the potential outcomes for children.
Early Identification
Importance of the early years of development
Build awareness and deepen understanding
Community specific priority issues
Topic Specific Campaigns
Public Information and Education
A systematic process for making available services known to both families and providers
A process for directing families to other services
Strategies to identify, update, track, and disseminate information about available services and supports
Referral and follow-up procedures
Information and Referral
Central functions of a high quality System of Services and Supports
Avoiding duplication of services
Supporting families in coordinating their own care
Service providers (across sub-systems and agencies) establish systematic processes
Coordination of Care
Process of tracking the use of current services
Collaborating to assure there are adequate services to meet the need
Monitor the health status of families and their young children
Service Needs and Utilization
Process of assuring an adequate and high-quality workforce
Assurance of a high-quality workforce that is culturally-competent
Adheres to family support principles
Skillfully collaborates with other resources
Workforce Staffing and Development
Awareness of current policies that influence their efforts to improve the System of Services and Supports
Identify policy issues that interfere with ability to positively impact the service delivery system
Collaborative recommendations for specific early childhood policy enhancements and or changes for use system-wide
Policy
Child and Family Outcomes
Babies are born healthy
Children maintain physical and emotional health and well being
Children enter school ready to learn
Parents are connected to the services they
need
Parents are Leaders
Big Ideas:
• Ultimately, AOK Networks seek to improve child and family outcomes
• Additional services are not enough
• Strengthening the System of Services and Supports together can lead to greater collective impact in these areas and more
Parent
Systems improvement at the community level is based on relationships: heart of AOK network
Conversation is the Relationship
Meaningful Conversations Lead to Wise Action
Advancing Collaborative Leadership
Phase OneMobilize & Build
Network Capacity
Phase TwoAssess the Community &
Develop the Strategic Plan
Phase ThreeImplement Plan & Measure Progress
Develop relationships through community conversations
Convene the networkFacilitate a shared understanding of vision and goalsCreate an environment that fosters collaboration and learning using AOH approachesDevelop collaborative leadership within the Network MembershipFoster community capacity for systems alignment and integration.
Identify / define target populationAnnually examine the health status and development of all 0-5 children
Identify available servicesAnalyze & synthesize the information gatheredShare assessment findings with the community and stateIdentify community strengths and challengesDevelop a strategic plan that describes how local priority/issues will be addressed and progress measured
Utilize community commitment to enhance the local early childhood service systemAddress community priorities through service system building initiativesTrack progress using quarterly reporting mechanisms
Document & celebrate accomplishmentsShare progress & accomplishments with community & state to sustain efforts
The Roadmap A Development and Planning Model
Strategic Process
STATE AOK VISION, MISSION & OPERATING PRINCIPLES
3-5 YEAR VISION
NEEDS & STRENGTHS
ASSESSMENT
IDENTIFICATION OF STRATEGIC
INITIATIVES& DEVELOPMENT
OF STRATEGIC PLAN
IMPLEMENTATION
PERIODIC REFLECTION &
REPORTING
ANNUAL ACTION PLANNING, BUDGET REVISION & PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
