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Engage and Excel! Strengthening Your FRYSC Advisory Council to Enhance Center Success

Engage and Excel! Strengthening Your FRYSC Advisory Council to Enhance Center Success. The FRYSC program is built upon the foundation of collaboration. The Advisory Council is the catalyst for bringing all stakeholders to the table. Importance of Councils and Impact on the Centers.

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Engage and Excel! Strengthening Your FRYSC Advisory Council to Enhance Center Success

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  1. Engage and Excel!Strengthening Your FRYSC Advisory Council to Enhance Center Success

  2. The FRYSC program is built upon the foundation of collaboration. Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  3. The Advisory Council is the catalyst for bringing all stakeholders to the table. Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  4. Importance of Councils and Impact on the Centers

  5. Brainstorming What attributes make an ideal Advisory Council? Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  6. An Effective Council • Engaged council • Diverse council • Council chair IS the chair • Understanding of roles/authority • Well-trained council • Advocacy • Creative Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  7. Role of Advisory Council • To provide a broad-based support for the center. • Assist the coordinator in developing programs and activities based on needs assessment. • Assist the coordinator in evaluating programs • Serve as a catalyst to link home, school, and community • Assist with the development of Advisory Council by-laws Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  8. Supporting the FRYSC • Hands-on involvement in center activities • Promote center public relations • Advocate for center in school and community • Assist with center fundraising • Assist in recruitment for center volunteers Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  9. Providing the Leadership:Envision a More Effective Council

  10. It’s up to you… The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. --Theodore M. Hesburgh Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  11. Set the Tone for Effectiveness Changes in attitude, changes in latitude… Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  12. From the beginning… Talk the talk! • What do potential members hear when you talk to them about joining the Council? • About the importance of the Council • About their value as a team member • About their role as a “partner” Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  13. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  14. Walk the walk! • Look for diversity …. In thinking! • Build a council of “Partners” • Use your advisory council • Build ownership The advisory council keeps the Center “community-centered” instead of “coordinator-centered” or “school-centered”. Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  15. Building Ownership Orient • Provide comprehensive training to new members Communicate • Keep council informed of center activities • Keep administrators and community informed of council activities Empower • Turn over some control • Give opportunities for council to express ideas Delegate • Chairperson – Is KEY *Confident? *Informed? *Empowered? • Other officers; other roles; assigned tasks Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  16. What’s in it for ME? The Downside… With an empowered, engaged advisory council: • It takes a little more effort • It’s hard to give up some of that control  • They may discover the limits to their authority Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  17. What’s in it for ME? Cont’ The Upside… An empowered, engaged, and energized advisory council: • Attends and participates in council meetings • Lightens your load • Supports the center Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  18. Recruitment, Training and Orientation of Members

  19. Recruitment Have a diverse council. Consider the school population • Socio-economic (people who use your services) • Gender • Cultural • Ethnicity Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  20. Recruitment Finding your members • Parents • Community • School Staff • Students Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  21. Training YEARLY (First meeting after new contract year starts) • Overview of council’s role • PowerPoint • Notebook • Officers’ roles • By-laws ONGOING • Formal or informal • New members Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  22. Maintaining an Effective Council

  23. Maintaining an Effective Council • Introductions • Agendas/Minutes • Name tags • Providing food • Making members feel welcome and needed • Networking time (meet and greet) • Ask opinions • Value all opinions Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  24. Maintaining an Effective Council cont’ • Make sure pencils and paper are available • Notebooks or folders for each member • Council input on meeting dates/times • Publicize meeting dates several months in advance • End of year celebration • Certificates Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  25. Use member strengths and give them a role: • Recruitment • Organization • Solicitation • Creativity • Fundraising • Public Relations Cabinet for Health and Family Services

  26. Advisory Councils are truly... Partners in Progress

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