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Helping Families Receive the Best Start in Life

Helping Families Receive the Best Start in Life. Overview. Check In AOK History AOK Communities Conceptual Framework Advancing Collaborative Leadership Roadmap Examples of collaborative activities. Importance of the Early Years.

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Helping Families Receive the Best Start in Life

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  1. Helping Families Receive the Best Start in Life

  2. Overview • Check In • AOK History • AOK Communities • Conceptual Framework • Advancing Collaborative Leadership • Roadmap • Examples of collaborative activities

  3. Importance of the Early Years • Neurons to Neighborhoods: Child outcomes can be improved through carefully planned prevention & intervention strategies • State and Local Connections • Creation of the All Our Kids (AOK) Early Childhood Networks

  4. Where are the AOK Networks? • St. Clair County • Stephenson County • Tazewell County • Town of Cicero • Wabash & Edwards County • Will County • Adams County • Carroll County • Kane County • McHenry County • McLean County • Rock Island County • Southeast Chicago

  5. Parents

  6. State Mission The All Our Kids Early Childhood Network is a community-based collaboration committed to enhancing a high-quality, well-coordinated, easily-accessible System of Services and Supports that promotes the positive growth and development of expecting parents and families with children birth to 5. • Big Ideas: • Focus is on strengthening the System of Services and Supports for families with young children • Collaborative effort to address system issues that are beyond the scope of individual agencies • Goal is to create greater collective impact regarding child and family outcomes by improving the system

  7. Guiding Principles • Big Ideas: • 3 sets of principles • Principles guide how we carry out our work as a Network, in service delivery, and as we enhance the System of Services and Supports • Principles help us create greater coherence in our collective work in all three areas

  8. Network Capacity • Big Ideas: • Network consists of diverse stakeholders who care about families with young children • Capacity refers to our ability to collaborate, share responsibility, and be adaptive and self-renewing regardless of changes in policy, funding, programming, etc. • Network capacity influences our ability to impact the System of Services and Supports and child and family outcomes Health MentalHealth Faith Based Parents Caregiver Early Learning Family Support Social Services

  9. System of Services and Supports • Big Ideas: • Networks strengthen the System of Services and Supports through 7 System-Building Strategies • Strategies can be addressed directly or as strategies for addressing local child and family priorities • Improving the System through these strategies results in System Impacts, which in turn lead to better outcomes for children and families System Systems Building Strategies Impacts Early Identification Access Public Information& Education Quality Information& Referral Coordination of Care Equity Service Needs& Utilization Capacity Workforce Staffing& Development Satisfaction Policy

  10. Early Identification • Identification of all expecting parents and children birth to five • Early identification of developmental delays or other issues The earlier problems are identified, the better the potential outcomes for children.

  11. Public Information and Education • Importance of the early years of development • Build awareness and deepen understanding • Community specific priority issues • Topic Specific Campaigns

  12. Information and Referral • A systematic process for making available services known to both families and providers • A process for directing families to other services • Strategies to identify, update, track, and disseminate information about available services and supports • Referral and follow-up procedures

  13. Coordination of Care • Central functions of a high quality System of Services and Supports • Avoiding duplication of services • Supporting families in coordinating their own care • Service providers (across sub-systems and agencies) establish systematic processes

  14. Service Needs and Utilization • Process of tracking the use of current services • Collaborating to assure there are adequate services to meet the need • Monitor the health status of families and their young children

  15. Workforce Staffing and Development • Process of assuring an adequate and high-quality workforce • Assurance of a high-quality workforce that is culturally-competent • Adheres to family support principles • Skillfully collaborates with other resources

  16. Policy • Awareness of current policies that influence their efforts to improve the System of Services and Supports • Identify policy issues that interfere with ability to positively impact the service delivery system • Collaborative recommendations for specific early childhood policy enhancements and or changes for use system-wide

  17. Child and Family Outcomes • Big Ideas: • Ultimately, AOK Networks seek to improve child and family outcomes • Additional services are not enough • Strengthening the System of Services and Supports together can lead to greater collective impact in these areas and more Babies are born healthy Children maintain physical and emotional health and well being Children enter school ready to learn Parents are connected to the services they need Parents are Leaders

  18. Parent

  19. Advancing Collaborative Leadership • Systems improvement at the community level is based on relationships: heart of AOK network • Conversation is the Relationship • Meaningful Conversations Lead to Wise Action

  20. The RoadmapA Development and Planning Model

  21. Strategic Process STATE AOK VISION, MISSION & OPERATING PRINCIPLES 3-5 YEAR VISION IDENTIFICATION OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES & DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION NEEDS & STRENGTHS ASSESSMENT PERIODIC REFLECTION & REPORTING ANNUAL ACTION PLANNING, BUDGET REVISION & PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

  22. For more information: http://www.aoknetworks.org/

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