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Rural Community College Initiative 2006

Rural Community College Initiative 2006. Fort Worth, Texas April 6, 2006. Collaborations to Enhance Community and Population Well-Being * Keith Mueller, Tim Size, Joe Gallegos, Len Kaye, Larry Otis.

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Rural Community College Initiative 2006

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  1. Rural Community College Initiative 2006 Fort Worth, Texas April 6, 2006

  2. Collaborations to Enhance Community and Population Well-Being*Keith Mueller, Tim Size, Joe Gallegos, Len Kaye, Larry Otis Purpose of Chapter: to suggest a policy and program agenda for HHS that would foster collaboration among community organizations and local rural leaders to improve the well-being of the community and its residents NAC believes sustaining rural communities requires effective local collaborations that involve federally funded programs and payment systems

  3. Collaboration:Why the Committee Chose this Topic • More than 225 HHS programs available to rural communities • Coordination is especially important in rural communities where resources, services, and providers are often limited • IOM’s Six Aims to Community Collaboration • Safe, effective, patient and community centered, timely, efficient, equitable

  4. Collaborations that Work:Examples • CREATE in Tupelo, MS • Blue Valley Community Action Partnership – community-based, non-profit serving 15 counties in rural NE And KS; offers more than 30 programs in health services, child development, emergency services, etc.

  5. Collaborations that Work:Barriers • Lack of investment by involved parties • Lack of resources • Long distance travel • Community resistance • Lack of established lines of communication • Collaborations do not occur overnight

  6. Collaborations that Work:Incentives • BETTER SERVE THE CLIENT • Efficient use of resources • Creating a link between collaboration and broad goals of the community • Encourage and facilitate efforts of strong local leaders *Strong leadership is precondition for successful collaborations. Communities should strive to always support local leaders, capture wealth transfer, energize entrepreneurship, and attract young people

  7. Collaboration:The Role of Health and Human Services in Integrating Programs Across Sectors • Health sector is critical in achieving new directions in rural policy • Importance of thinking of health and human service programs and policies as integral to overall community development and rural economies

  8. Actions and Specific Recommendations to Facilitate Collaborations HHS can help establish a policy environment in which collaboration flourish ACTIONS: • Create common reporting requirements for programs that are linked at the local level • Encourage programs in other Federal agencies to participate in multi-sector collaborations • Facilitate interagency cooperation that allows for single lines of accountability for funds

  9. RECOMMENDATIONS • The Secretary should support the creation of a Web resource for “models that work,” showing successful collaborations in rural areas (build this into www.raconline.org) • The Secretary should support research that will further specify opportunities and barriers

  10. RECOMMENDATIONS (cont.) • The Secretary should support leadership development for rural community organizations and residents • The Secretary should require grant recipients engaged in direct delivery of services to demonstrate an effect on community development

  11. Involving Community Leaders in Community Development “No Santa Claus in Washington, County seat, or state capital.” George McLean

  12. Tupelo, Lee County, Mississippi 1940 • Poorest town • Poorest county • Poorest state • Poorest in America

  13. Tupelo 2005 • 34,000 population-59,000 jobs • Largest non-metro hospital in America • Created 1,000 jobs per yr. for 17 years • 3 times All America City • One of Top School Systems in America • Symphony orchestra, Ballet company • Family income near national medium • Upholstery furniture mfg center of America • Regional Shopping Center 12 million shoppers/year

  14. What was the change agent? • George McLean-champion of community, the Editor of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal • Change in approach to development that resulted in progress and improvements in quality of life • Concept that all parties agreed: Community Development precedes Economic Development

  15. Guiding principles-Total Community Development. • Local people must address local problems. • Each person should be treated as a resource. • The goal of Community development is to help people help themselves. • Meet the needs by starting with the poorest. • Community development must help create jobs. • Expenditures for community development are an investment-not a subsidy. • Community development must be done both locally and regionally.

  16. Guiding principles-Total community development • Start with tangible goals and measure you progress. • Build teams and use team approach. • Leadership is a prime ingredient, but requires organizations. • Never turn the community development to any agency that does not include people of the community. • Persistence is essential and must be updated. • Accountability for performance and finance.

  17. Community Development precedes economic development • Funding follows careful development of concepts and people involvement. • Assessment of constraints. • Collaboration in rural areas where resources, services & providers are limited. • HHS has more than 225 programs for rural communities. • Go to raconline.org for funding ideas HHS

  18. Collaborations that work: • Barriers • Lack of investment by parties • Lack of resources • Long distance travel • Lack of established lines of communications. • Community resistance • Desire for credit/turf concerns

  19. Collaborations that work • Incentives: • Better serve the client • Efficient use of resources • Creating a link between collaboration and broad goals of the community. • Encourage and facilitate efforts of strong local leaders. • Importance of thinking of health and human service programs and policies as integral to overall community development and rural economies.

  20. Commission Purpose: • Assess conditions in Northeast Mississippi • Determine the key issues facing the region • Recommend regional strategies to address these issues

  21. CREATE • Commission on the Future of North Mississippi • Identify constraints to growth and prosperity. • Teen pregnancy • Workforce development • Racial reconciliation • Regionalism/unity • Inclusive process for each of the 16 counties to identify county socioeconomic trends and public opinion that affect the region.

  22. CREATE • High impact opportunities • State of the Region Report Meeting • Common Grounds Project • Local economic developers meetings • Workforce Development –Market Street Services-Atlanta • $100,000.00 Grant to each of 16 Counties match with $200,000.00 from local County. • Free Clinic-medical services for working poor • Reading aide for elementary Lee County Schools($150,000.00/year for 10 years). Now state wide by State of Mississippi • Advanced Education Center $12 million, used jointly by Ole Miss, MUW, Itawamba CC.

  23. Community Development precedes economic development

  24. Peter Wolf, Doug Henton, Robert Puttnam, Vaughn Grisham point to the Tupelo Model

  25. Guiding principles-Total Community Development. • Local people must address local problems. • Each person should be treated as a resource. • The goal of Community development is to help people help themselves. • Meet the needs by starting with the poorest. • Community development must help create jobs. • Expenditures for community development are an investment-not a subsidy. • Community development must be done both locally and regionally.

  26. Guiding principles-Total community development • Start with tangible goals and measure you progress. • Build teams and use team approach. • Leadership is a prime ingredient, but requires organizations. • Never turn the community development to any agency that does not include people of the community. • Persistence is essential and must be updated.

  27. CREATE • Initiatives • Inspiring Mississippi Women to reach full potential • Mission Mississippi (Racial reconciliation) • Northeast Mississippi Youth Foundation • MegaPop-Broadband to North Mississippi • Community Leadership Institute • PUL Alliance 1700 acre Mega Site

  28. It is the responsibility of the people of Mississippi to try to raise the level - economically, educationally,spiritually and otherwise - of all the people of Mississippi. There’s nobody else who’s going to come in here and do it for us. George McLeanCREATE Founder1904 - 1983 www.createfoundation.com

  29. Quality of Life • Health care • Quality education opportunities • Social involvement • Jobs • Retail • Growth of people

  30. What faces us in the Future? • “The New Texas Challenge” Changing Demographics • Research of real issues not just perceptions. • Outside help-Consultants

  31. Leadership Development • Grow your own leaders • Focus their skills on strengthening community • Ask them to commit 1 or 2 years to their dream. • Reach back and educate new leaders in community.

  32. Collaboration • Federal • Foundation • Regional issues • Local issues • Funding

  33. Application of Technology • On line education • “World is Flat” (why we got left out) • National Community Development Network

  34. Accountability of Actions • Funding sources will demand results or no more funding. • Not our money • Funding limitations of tax sources • Increasing competition for funds • It’s just the right thing to do!

  35. Contact:Larry Otis • RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT • 645 West Jefferson Street • Tupelo, MS 38804 • Email-larryotis@bellsouth.net • Phone 662-842-7657

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