Strengthening Rural Families

An Action-Learning Institute for Washington Horizons

CommunitiesNovember 1-4, 2009SeaTac, Washington

Welcome!

Rural Working Family Reality Check

Living with a Hole in Your Pockethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IBYBKv5b-U

Avoiding the Money Trap

Nickel and Dimed

Strengthening Rural Families

An Action-Learning Institute for Washington Horizons

CommunitiesNovember 1-4, 2009SeaTac, Washington

Welcome!

Again our Definition:

RuFESRuralFamilyEconomic Success

How did we get to Today?

Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) has been working on the ground and with partners to develop Family Economic Success approach to improving prospects and outcomes for families and their children.

AECF and the Northwest Area Foundation (NWAF) and Washington State University Extension agreed to partner on a RuFES Institute focused on Washington Horizons communities.

WSU Extension/Horizons extended the offer to Horizons II communities to form action teams to participate in this Institute.

You answered the call! In large and small ways, you are already focused on some RuFES outcomes in your work.

How did we get to Today?

AECF working partner - Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group – collaborated with NWAF, WSU Extension and your teams to tailor this Institute to your RuFES priorities and starting points. Team Formation Interviews Agenda Design and Emphasis Selection and Preparation of Resource

Team, Stories and Materials

Why are we here? Objectives-1 Learn about the RuFES Earn It, Keep

It, Grow It Framework and how it can be applied within our Horizons effort -- focusing on the particular circumstances facing rural families in our communities and Washington.

Identify proven RuFES ideas, strategies, practices and policies to adopt or adapt that have good potential for success right here at home.

Why are we here? Objectives-2

Build and strengthen peer connections within teams and across the state that will help Washington move more rural families ahead..

Devise – working in community teams – a set of short-term RuFES Action Plans to take the next set of steps in advancing specific RuFES goals.

Build RuFES networks!

Have some F-U-N in the process!

How will we do this?

You bring to the table your Horizons experience, your RuFES Target Families and keep them in mind.

We hear about and explore a range of specific stories and strategies in sessions devoted to Earn It, Keep It and/or Grow It.

We stop for team reflection – Noodlin’ Time – a few times along the way to glean what applies to us.

You develop an Action Plan at the end!

Then…You go home and act!

Agenda Segments – Sunday PM

Rural Working Family Reality Check Living With a Hole in Your Pocket Avoiding the Money Trap

Agenda Overview You are here now!

Community Team Introductions Your Assignment #2

Agenda Segments – Monday AM

Rural Family Economic Success Overview

RuFES and Community Economic Success Earn It / Keep It Session

Getting the Rural-Most from Earned Income Tax Credit

Overview: What Is It? EITC for Rural Places Rural EITC Works Here: Washington Can Do It! Help on Hand in Washington for EITC: State, IRS,

Internet! The Washington Policy Front

Lunch!

Noodlin’ Time Tax Credit Action Ideas

Agenda Segments – Monday PM

Keep It SessionKnow All the Money Traps: The “Nasty Nine” Family Financial Predators

Keep It SessionThe Better Bunch: Financial Products and Policy that Help Families

Innovations in Action Video Bank On Cowlitz County Financial Products Innovations and Trends The Washington Policy Front

Keep It SessionFinancial Education – The Key to Keeping it

Financial Education Overview Goldendale Story: A PUD Deposit Carrot Makes

MoneySmart Stick!

Noodlin’ Time Financial Education & Product Ideas

RuFES Reception – in the Reflections Gallery

Dinner… in the Stuffed Mushroom

Mix it up! No more than one (two max) person

from each team at every dining table please!

Agenda Segments – Monday PM

Earn It / Keep It Session Getting Rural Families to Work – and Life!

Affordable Auto Purchase: JumpStart – Peter KildeWith a Community Jitney to Boot!

Affordable Car Repair: Wheels to Work – Don WakeOh – and a Transportation Collaborative Along for the Ride!

Tri-County Transportation Story – Kelly Scalf/Colville WashDot on the Spot – Tom Hanson

Earn It / Keep It / Grow It Session

Getting Rural Families to Broadband – and Broadband to Rural Families!

Noodlin’ Time Transit (Actual & Virtual) Action Ideas

Agenda Segments – Tuesday AM

Earn It / Grow It Session

Growing Rural Family & Community Livelihood through Entrepreneurship – Part I Energizing Rural Entrepreneurs: Roadmap, Directions

and Tales – Chuck Palmer Get on the Colville “E Train” – Colville Team Latino Rural Microenterprise Pilot: Grant County

Team

Help on Hand for Growing Entrepreneurship State Government Here to Help – George Sharp Statewide Microenterprise Organization Here – Teresa

Lemmons Oregon’s Mercy Corps Here to Help: Anthony Gromko

Noodlin’ Time Rural Entrepreneurship Action Ideas

Agenda Segments – Tuesday PM

Salty’s at Redondo Beach Car Pool there – just a few miles away

Local Business Award Winning Lots to Exchange!

Agenda Segments – Tuesday PM

Earn It / Keep It / Grow It Session

Washington Asset Building and Policy Action Resources - Paul Knox

Deepen It Session

RuFES Action Topic Advice Breakouts Transportation Entrepreneurship Broadband EITC and Financial Education Keeping your RuFES and Horizons Effort Going

and Rolling Other… YOU CHOOSE!

Agenda Segments – Wednesday AM

Ultra Noodlin’ Time

Craft Your RuFES Back-Home Action Plan

Over Lunch: On Your RuFES Horizons: Report Your Action Plans!

Next Steps / Wrap Up / Adjourn!

Agenda Segments – Wednesday PM

The Earn It, Keep It, Grow It Goals

The Resource Team: One (or more) for Each Community Team

Reflection toward Action:

Your Target Families and RuFES Goals – Keep in Focus

Noodlin’ Reflection Time: What specific action ideas are in this for our team and our Target Families?

Team Action Plans and Reports

Agenda Tools and Threads

Structured Assignments

Oodles of Materials – Your Packets!

A process to capture any new referrals that come up onsite

You All Come Here with Horizons Experience and Expertise and Success – We are just building on it!

Agenda Tools and Threads

Always more to do than we can fit!

It will come thick and fast! Ideas AND paper

Approach: Exposing you to a lot of good practice in a short time – leaving you the work (and joy!) of making local sense of it all

Timing is everything – or at least IMPORTANT!

Be Understanding and Friendly!

Agenda Challenges

Rules of Engagement Honesty

Safety

Risk

Respect

Listen

Care and Share

Timeliness

Fun & Comfort

Who is with us? Seven Great Community Teams

We’ll get to you in a few minutes

Guest Resource Team ( throughout -- see bios) Monica Babine Brian Cahill Danielle Friedman Marcel Goulet Anthony Gromko Tom Hanson Peter Kilde* Paul Knox Teresa Lemmons Liz Myntti Chuck Palmer* George Sharp Leland Smith Don Wake* And SOME OF YOU!

Who is with us?Northwest Area Foundation Jerry Uribe

Annie E. Casey Foundation Miriam Shark

Washington State University Extension/Horizons Robert McDaniel Doreen Hauser-

Lindstrom Dr. Linda Fox Patrick Malone Louise Parker

Iowa State University Extension/Horizons Ruth Freeman

Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group René Bryce-Laporte Kelly Malone John Molinaro Janet Topolsky

Speaking of …Logistics

Location of our stuff: The Cedars: We meet here! The Stuffed Mushroom: Breakfast, Lunch

& Dinner (except Tuesday dinner and Wednesday lunch)

Breakouts: To be assigned Wednesday

Copies and powerpoints- Give Kelly your Handouts!- Give John any Powerpoints!

Logistics Questions: KELLY!

Questions?

Then on to… Community Team

Introductions

Who’s Here – with What to Start?

Your Homework Was… Who are your RuFES Target Families?

What is the set or subset of low-income rural families that you most want to help with your RuFES Action Plan?

Top three-five important facts or details about those families situations or challenges.

What are your top two Horizons accomplishments or assets that will form a good base for your RuFES action?

What are your two Target Family Reality Check-ins?

What is an effective practice you used to consult with families in determining or designing a service or program?

What is a change in the design or delivery of a service, activity or project that you made because of advice from your target families – change that helped your effort be more successful or work better?

Chewelah Community Team

Ralph Walter – Co-Team Leader

Rose Walter – Co-Team Leader

Tracy Ferrell

Karrel Miller

Aubrey Reeves

Tracey Rice

Terri Washburn

Krisan LeHew – Team Coach

Colville Community TeamTerri Elders – Team Leader

Heidi Braun

Scott Douglas

Eric Ohrtman

Sue Poe

Kelly Scalf

Mary Wagner

Krisan LeHew – Team Coach

Goldendale Community Team

Mindy Blomquist -Team Leader

Mike Cannon

Lorraine Fritsch

Susan Kerr

Sylvia McFarland

Brian Wanless

Linda Williams– Team Coach

Grant County Community Team

Candi Allison – Team Leader

Sharon Chesterman

Jasmyne DeBeaumont

Shelly Lewis

Janelle Ottmar

David Plate

Tony Garcia – Co-Team Coach

Christine Price – Co-Team Coach

Kettle Falls Community TeamSteve Gray – Co-Team Leader

Robyn Westergard – Co-Team Leader

Pat Elliott

Debra Kollock

Cheryl Largent

Leanne Pomrankey

Sue Richardson

Krisan LeHew – Team Coach

Mossyrock Community Team

Wilma Sofranko - Team Leader

Glenn Aldrich

Dick Larman

Tammy Mocan

Rebecca Sutherland

Donna Wilson

Joe Baisch – Co-Team Coach

Joy Baisch – Co-Team Coach

Skamania / West KlickitatTeamSarah Hackney - Team Leader

Bruce Bolme

Ubaldo Hernandez

Sally Mansur

Lynea Moat

Vicki Pfeiffer

Johanna Roe

Linda Williams – Team Coach

Dinner Now!The Stuffed Mushroom

Downstairs

No more than one person per team at each table – TWO max

BE BACK to start at the stroke of 8:15 tomorrow

morning