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Focus on Sustainability: Creating a Resource and Referral Center

Focus on Sustainability: Creating a Resource and Referral Center. Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education Program Development Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Hot Springs, Arkansas Terry Lawler, Project Director. Element 5: Early Childhood.

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Focus on Sustainability: Creating a Resource and Referral Center

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  1. Focus on Sustainability:Creating a Resource and Referral Center Division of Child Care and Early Childhood EducationProgram DevelopmentSafe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Hot Springs, Arkansas Terry Lawler, Project Director

  2. Element 5: Early Childhood Goal 5: Provide early childhood social and emotional development programs toward school readiness

  3. Early Childhood Resources Lacking in Hot Springs 2008 Early Childhood Resource and Referral Centers • Jonesboro, Fayetteville, and Little Rock X

  4. Step 1: Identify Potential Partners • OVER 100 Childcare Providers in Hot Springs • Early Head Start Center • Head Start Center • 1 Local EC Trainer Affiliated with U of A Fayetteville • 1 Local EC Trainer Affiliated with ASU-Jonesboro • Training program for childcare workers at local two-year college (NPCC) • Hot Springs Early Childhood Association • UAMS Professor in Department of Child Psychiatry • State Director of Division of Childcare and Early Childhood Education

  5. Step 2: Develop a Pre-School Coalition • Members from local, regional and state EC Partners • Develop Foundations of Learning Protocol based on logic model and coalition work • Publish and share results widely • Allow practice to inform protocol revisions

  6. Focus Group Informs Activities

  7. Step 3: Provide Awareness Sessions and Professional Development Opportunities to Your Community • HighReach Curriculum • Al’s Pals • Training in Parenting Skills including Love and Logic and Parenting the Strong Willed Child and TIPS • Strengthening Families • Tantrums vs Meltdowns • Arkansas “Better Beginnings” curriculum

  8. Solid Game Plan for Professional Development Key to Success Communication Specialist Worksheet 11-5-2009

  9. Convening Early Childhood Directors • First Early Childhood Directors’ Meeting February 17, 2010 • Teach children in your child care center to understand how to respect themselves and get along with others • Share a resource that offers your preschool teachers insight into working with diverse children • Be able to respond with reliable information to families concerns about parenting

  10. Al’s Pals in Head Start • (Video of Al’s Pals at Head Start)

  11. Step 4: Network at Early Childhood Meetings and Conferences • Hot Springs Early Childhood Association • Local Family Play Days • State DHS Early Childhood Division • Visits to Early Childhood Centers- local, regional, state • UAMS Lectures and Committee Meetings • Head Start Meetings and Trainings • State Early Childhood Association

  12. Step 5: Communicate Program Services and Successes Published In Local Newspaper For Community Event Newsletter Distributed To Community

  13. Step 6: Add The Magic Ingredient, Support • Mental Health Professional to Head Start • Coaches for Al’s Pals, TIPS, ASQSE and other PD • Follow-up with EC Center Directors’ • Individual • Group

  14. Early Childhood Resource Guide Example Of Added Support

  15. Step 7: Get Expert Advice FOR… • Logic Model • Focus Team Members • Staff Development • Sustainability Plan • Everything FROM… • DHS- Early Childhood Division • HIPPY and/or PAT Coordinators • Early Childhood Advocates • TAS, FPO, Communication Specialist

  16. Step 8: Research Sustainability Plan • What needs to be sustained • Connection of partners • Trainings for Parents and Providers • Development and Communication of Resources • Best way to sustain • Regional Resource and Referral Center • Who is the best to sustain • Local two-year college

  17. Step 9: Take Your Sustainability Plan to the Next Level • Indoctrinate “Sustainability” partner • Share the vision • Sell the benefits • Find the resources for sustainability • Connect “Sustainability” partner to resources • Dovetail work so there is a seamless transition

  18. $225,000 A Year For 7 Years Submitted: October 31, 2011 West Central Arkansas Childcare Resource and Referral Center (WCACRRC)

  19. NPPC President’s Comments about Early Childhood Resource and Referral Grant • (Video of President of NPCC)

  20. Step 10: Know When to Let Go WORK IN PROGRESS… Projected Completion Date July 1, 2012

  21. Launch Kids Count Resource and Referral Centers in Hot Springs • July 1, 2012: The Official Beginning of Kid’s Count Resource and Referral Center in Hot Springs, Arkansas

  22. Hard Work Yields Success SUSTAINED

  23. Questions????? Contact Information: Terry Lawler Project Director Safe Schools-Healthy Students Grant Initiative Hot Springs School District 400 Linwood Avenue Hot Springs, Arkansas 71913 501-624-3372 Office 501-620-6051 Cell 501-620-7829 Fax

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