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Comprehensive Community Initiatives Improving the Lives of Youth and Families through Systems Change A TOOLKIT FOR FEDERAL MANAGERS. The Impetus for the Project. Recent emphasis on federal support of CCIs Need for federal agencies to better structure CCI supports
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Comprehensive Community Initiatives Improving the Lives of Youth and Families through Systems Change A TOOLKIT FOR FEDERAL MANAGERS
The Impetus for the Project Recent emphasis on federal support of CCIs Need for federal agencies to better structure CCI supports Expectation that grantees develop partnerships and collaborations Need to strengthen and increase fed agency partnering re: CCIs Interest in professionalizing the work around systems change Our focus: Technical assistance, funding, evaluation, and federal partnerships The result: A web-based toolkit for federal managers
Federal Partnerships Project Work Team Trina Anglin*, HHS Ron Ashford*, HUD Catherine Davis, ED Reynaldo Decerega, DOL Robin Delany-Shabazz*, DOJ John Foster-Bey, fmr. CNS Sonia Klukas, fmr. DOJ Suzanne LeMenestrel*, USDA Martha Moorehouse, HHS Richard Morris*, DOL Curtis Porter*, HHS Sarah Potter*, HHS Maria Queen*, HUD Gary Quinn, HHS Winnie Reed*, DOJ Pamela Rodriguez, Practitioner Lisa Trivits, HHS Ramona Williams, HHS Paul Kesner*, ED *Denotes Current Work Team
The Toolkit Development Team Meg Holmberg Zachary Miller Margaret Smariga Francesca Stern Susan Yeres
The Toolkit Background
What is the Toolkit based on? • An inventory of CCIs • An exploration of the literature about CCIs • Individual discussions with 40 people from five CCIs — funders, site managers, TA providers, and evaluators • A forum gathering of professionals involved with CCIs to review drafts and generate ideas
Getting it into use • How do we get the Toolkit into the hands of people who can benefit from it? • How can we get new and current grant managers and COTRs to access the Toolkit and then apply it to their work? • How do we get agencies to encourage and support the use of the guidelines and tools?
Getting it into use • How should we introduce the Toolkit to new leadership? • What can you commit to do to encourage your agency to incorporate this resource and the practices it describes into your agency’s program development guidance, procedures, training? • How else might the Coordinating Council support your efforts?
Keeping it Current • How can we make this a living document that continually incorporates our best knowledge? • Getting input: • Feedback mechanisms on the website • In your agencies • In your workgroups
Let’s make this Toolkit the GO-TO SOURCE for best knowledge when developing, managing and sustaining a CCI !