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Promise and Opportunity for Our Children and Youth

Presentation to the California Child Care Coordinators Association on October 14, 2015, discussing the Santa Clara County Children's Agenda and strategies for creating a safe, healthy, and successful environment for every child. Emphasizes the importance of a shared vision, collaborative efforts, continual improvement, data-driven decision making, and addressing the opportunity gap. Encourages individuals to take action and hold elected officials accountable for policies that impact children and youth.

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Promise and Opportunity for Our Children and Youth

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  1. Promise and Opportunity for Our Children and Youth Presentation to the California Child Care Coordinators Association October 14, 2015

  2. How are the children?

  3. The Santa Clara County Children’s Agenda Building a community where every child is safe, healthy, successful in learning, successful in life.

  4. How We Get There:- Share a common vision for our children and youth.- Engage in mutually reinforcing activities – We make progress together and recognize the contribution each of us make.- Commit to continual improvement of programs, systems & policies.-Truly “co-labor” and hold ourselves accountable for improvement in our programs and at a community level..

  5. How We Get There:-Utilize data and research to inform decision-making, guide program improvement and drive results.-Track and Monitor our Progress on 13 data indicators of child well-being.- Understand that the positive inputs in a child’s life is additive – graduation from high school ready for college helps a young person be successful in life and is easier to achieve if a child is ready for school and has extended learning opportunities. - Recognize that there is an “opportunity gap” that gets in the way of achievement and success for our low-income children and children of color. We must address this if we are going to be successful.

  6. Let’s Talk About Data

  7. Source (Data and graphic): Santa Clara County Office of Education, Strong Start Initiative.

  8. What Can We Do to Address this Disparity of Opportunity?

  9. A Lot!

  10. Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For indeed, that’s all who ever have. - Margaret Mead

  11. What you can do when you go home: • Find out what the data says about your county: • www.kidsdata.org • www.childrennow.org • www.cfpa.net • Ask your LPC to adopt a Bill of Rights for Children & Youth. • Talk with like-minded people about what you want for the children in your community. Ask them to join you in improving results for your children. • Hold your elected officials accountable for votes and policies that impact children and youth. Hold legislative forums, create a voter’s guide on children’s issues.

  12. Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.-Sitting Bull

  13. Questions? Dana Bunnett dbunnett@kidsincommon.org www.kidsincommon.org

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