4Results Together COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN

1. 4Results TogetherCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN ENSURING PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED: The Staying Factor

2. 4Results Together PASSION POWER PERSISTENCE PERFORMANCE

3. LAYING THE GROUNDWORK

4. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN Community Partnerships for Protecting Children recognizes that keeping children safe is everybody’s business

5. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN Core Principles: • Child protection service agencies, working alone, cannot keep children safe from abuse and neglect • Citizens and community members should be directly involved in providing support to families in need and in shaping the types of service and support that are made available to families • Supports and services must be based in the communities in which families live Local communities have to shape their own strategies and develop a range of services based on their own resources, needs, and cultures.

6. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN Brings together: • Parents • Youth • Social Service professionals • Faith ministries • Local businesses • Schools • Caring neighbors To help design, govern and participate in programs that seek to create a continuum of care and support for children, youth and parents in their neighborhoods.

7. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN But what can happen? • Lack of common language and framework • Different amounts and kinds of participation • Expectations based on the past history of “the way” to do it • Sense of inequality based on job, position, title, education or lack thereof Which can lead to: • Distrust • Lack of buy-in and investment • Lack of continued participation

8. PARTNERSHIP LEADERSHIP REQUIRES: • Assessing the environment for partnership readiness • Sharing power and influence • Creating clarity: Establishing outcomes and mobilizing people • Developing people at each step • Building trust and managing conflict • Self-reflecting by the leadership

9. “ Courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because if you haven’t courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others. Maya Angelou ”

10. LEADERSHIP LESSON You’ve gotta have skin in the game… There must be a willingness to invest resources — both human and financial — to make it happen. Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

11. Social Economic Political Environmental Technological Cultural SURROUNDING FORCES

12. “ The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser, American poet ”

13. ACCEPTANCE To move people where you want them to be, you must first accept them where they are.

14. LEADERSHIP LESSON The Hitchhiker’s Guide… Inevitably, you will encounter setbacks and barriers to success…DON’T PANIC! Find a way to manage the barrier and keep going. Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

15. RATE OF CHANGE • The lily’s double everyday. • The pool will be full in 30 days. • On what day will the pool be half full?

16. RATE OF CHANGE 29th Day 1/2 % day

17. LEADERSHIP LESSON The tipping point… Progress can seem to creep along at a snail’s pace, then suddenly flies at lightning speed… be ready to run with it. Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

18. RESOURCES From REVENUE To RISK MANAGEMENT

19. MANAGING RISK/FEAR OF FAILURE • Appreciate all contributions, however small • Recognize that the partnership is a business relationship and each wants a return on investment • Focus on the outcomes that are to be achieved for the family

20. “ Fair is another four letter word that starts with “F” and can’t be used in polite public. Unknown ”

21. LEADERSHIP LESSON Seizing Opportunities… You must have an openness to doing community and family support work when you both create the opportunity and the opportunity presents itself. Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

22. SIX STRATEGIES

23. Tap Personal Assets Involve All People Map Results Strategies Incorporate Self-Interests Implement Strategic Actions Align Individual Responsibilities SIX STRATEGIES

24. SIX STRATEGIES One:TAP PERSONAL ASSETS

25. PASSION SOURCES • CUSTOMS • LANGUAGES • WORLD VIEW Problems vs. Opportunities • PREFERENCES Begetting, Becoming, Being, Bequeathing • ASSETS

26. “ Equality is what doesn’t exist between equals. e.e cummings ”

27. Authority Connections Expertise Facilitation Personality Reputation Resources Rewards ASSETS • Confrontation

28. 55% Sender 38% LOST IN TRANSLATION FACIAL EXPRESSION & BODY LANGUAGE 7% WORDS Albert Mehrabian,UCLA psychology professor I hope you understand what I’m dealing with. Receiver VOICE INFLECTION

29. CELEBRATE Each person! All steps! Every success! All the time!!

30. LEADERSHIP LESSON Shared passion… Agency staffs, volunteers and the entire community have to see, hear, feel and believe you care about a family… you’ve got to “Walk the Talk!” Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

31. SIX STRATEGIES Two:INVOLVE ALL PEOPLE

32. “ Leadership springs up at the intersection of personal passions and public problems. Barbara Crosby ”

33. “ Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Making a difference is a matter of choice. Patricia Russell-McCloud ”

34. INTENSITY OF RELATIONSHIPS Intensity Cooperation Coordination Collaboration

35. Core Initiation Collaboration Coordination Cooperation SELECTED INVOLVEMENT RIGHT LEVEL, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME, RIGHT WORK =PARTNERSHIP

36. LEADERSHIP LESSON Embrace the magic… Family outcomes may not ultimately end up as you originally envisioned, but there is magic in the “relationship mileage” that occurs in the process! Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

37. SIX STRATEGIES Three:MAP RESULTS STRATEGIES

38. EVALUATION E = In VALUE = Valor/Strength EVALUATION Finding strength in what we do

39. INDIVIDUALIZED COURSE OF ACTION RESULTS ARE CENTRAL • Level 1: Institute strength-based engagement/assessment skills and the FTM process • Level 2: Ensure trained FTM facilitators and access to FTMs are available for families • Level 3: Develop a plan for Quality Assurance Sustainability • Level 4: Implement Quality Assurance Plans whose outcomes reflect family respect, engagement, and empowerment

40. STRATEGIC MAP Individualized Course of Action for the Family

41. LEADERSHIP LESSON Giving up control… Stay focused on key outcomes and results while giving up some control of what gets done and how it gets done. Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

42. SIX STRATEGIES Four:INCORPORATE SELF-INTERESTS

43. Self-Interests Self-Interests INCORPORATING SELF-INTERESTS RESULTS

44. “ God protect me fromself-interest masquerading as moral principle. Mark Twain ”

45. “ Self-interest is the prime mover of people. Saul Alinsky ”

46. SELF-INTEREST Self-interest is not good or bad. It has to be acknowledged, not denied.

47. INCLUDING DIFFICULT PEOPLE • Wish they were gone • Blame them for what’s wrong • Focus attention on what they’re doing or not doing • Learn their self-interests • Accommodate their needs at the appropriate level

48. Self- Interests Planning Alignment Strategic Priorities Resources INCORPORATION

49. LEADERSHIP LESSON Avoid “cookie cutters”… The outcome and course of action can and often do vary by each family and everyone’s self-interests; they can’t be mass-produced. Be flexible! Adapted from the United Way of the Southern Tier, New York

50. SIX STRATEGIES Five: IMPLEMENT STRATEGIC ACTIONS