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Evidence2Success Presentation for the Providence School Board

Evidence2Success Presentation for the Providence School Board. Providence, Rhode Island February 27, 2012. Agenda. Explain how Evidence2Success benefits children’s education and development

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Evidence2Success Presentation for the Providence School Board

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  1. Evidence2SuccessPresentation for the Providence School Board Providence, Rhode Island February 27, 2012

  2. Agenda • Explain how Evidence2Success benefits children’s education and development • Identify ways Evidence2Success can support the Providence School Board’s vision for student success • Address School Board members’ questions and thoughts about Evidence2Success

  3. Evidence2Success Goals and Strategies

  4. A Vision for Evidence2Success • Improve outcomes for all children by decreasing risk and improving protection at the community level • Change relationships among public systems, schools, communities, and families by creating effective partnerships • Use the best available dataon children’s strengths and needs to choose proven programsthat have been shown to produce better child well-being outcomes • Invest in a portfolio of proven programs that reaches every eligible child • Redirect a percentage spending from costly treatment to prevention and early interventionover time • Build capacity to change policy and practiceand to implement proven programs according to guidelines

  5. What do Providence’s children need to succeed?

  6. The Evidence2Success approach Child/Family Schools Community Public Agencies

  7. Resources and Tools to Support Evidence2Success

  8. The citywide partnership will select two communities to take part in Evidence2Success • Community-Systems Partnership • Business Leaders • Civic Leaders • Faith Leaders • Resident Leaders • Service Leaders (includes schools and systems) Citywide Partnership Elected officials School superintendent Public systems leaders Representatives of Community-Systems partnership

  9. Role of Children and Youth Cabinet as leaders of Evidence2Success? • Develop a shared vision in collaboration with the community-systems partnerships • Identify citywide funding and program priorities • Prioritize root causes that affect children’s health and development based on survey data • Identify proven programs • Develop action plans to implement proven programs • Develop monitoring process to ensure programs are implemented correctly • Track progress in achieving outcomes

  10. How the survey works • Comprised of standardized measures that are valid, reliable, and predictive of developmental outcomes • Self-reporting tools for children (10-18 years) and parental-reporting tools for children ages 8 and younger • Designed for use across schools and multiple agencies and in the community to enable comparisons • 50 minutes to complete • Available in paper format or online

  11. Surveys identify the influences that put your children at risk Sample Risk Factor Profile

  12. …and the positive influences that protect your children Sample Protective Factor Profile Overall Peer-Individual Community Family School

  13. Survey results link children’s strengths and needs to specific proven programs Elevated Risk Factors Favorable Attitudes Towards Antisocial Behavior Low Commitment to School Antisocial Peers Academic Failure Universal Prevention Low Perceived Risk of Drug Use Targeted Treatment * Random assignment evaluation or multiple comparison group evaluations

  14. A finance toolkit will help you map current spending on families… • Atlanta Neighborhood Planning Unit V (NPU-V): • Annie E. Casey Foundation Civic Site • Total population: 15,500 Child population 4,100 • 35% of households have at least one child • 59% of children are in poverty • Diversity: • 92% African American • 2% Hispanic Latino • 3% Caucasian

  15. NPU-V Services: Total expenditures on children, young people and families with children (excluding juvenile justice) Child protective services ($3,680,000) Food stamps ($3,730,000) Child care ($870,000) Public health($270,000) Other programs ($1,340,000)* Foster care ($350,000) Mental health programs ($460,000) Medicaid & Peachcare ($5,720,000) Title 1($1,200,000) Atlanta public high schools ($9,050,000) Pre-K & Head-start ($2,570,000) Work assistance ($1,740,000) After school programs ($570,000) Atlanta public elementary & middle schools ($23,340,000)

  16. …and deploy resources to achieve greater returns for children, systems, and schools

  17. How do you invest smarter for greater returns? $54, 890,000 in annual spending 1 percent

  18. Summary of Evidence2Success Resources for Providence • Capacity building resources including coaching and technical assistance • Surveys and assessments to identify local strengths, needs, and resources and to track progress • A database of proven programs that improve children’s health and development • Financing plans that draw on a range of strategies and ways of structuring program investments • Start-up funding to support the transition to using and sustaining proven programs.

  19. How Providence’s Priorities Align with Evidence2Success

  20. What makes Evidence2Success a good fit for Providence? • A strong commitment to children’s health and development • A focus on educational achievement for all students • A public systems infrastructure aligned to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of programs and services • Communities actively engaged in children’s initiatives • An emphasis on using data to make decisions

  21. What benefits does Evidence2Success offer Providence schools? • Create a big picture view of child well-being in Providence • Link data on child outcomes and root causes to proven programs • Have a forum for working with public systems to address non-school influences • Effectively use resources and show the impact of your spending at a child and community level

  22. What progress has been made in bringing Evidence2Success to Providence? • Established 45-day initial engagement process with Mayor Taveras, starting February 1 • Discussed with Superintendent Lusi how Evidence2Success can help to advance district priorities • Identifying Children and Youth Cabinet role in Evidence2Success governance structure • Secured survey approval by PPSD for administration in April • Meeting with key stakeholders (e.g., city council, General Assembly members, mayor, governor’s staff, DCYF director) to discuss their roles in Evidence2Success

  23. Question and Answer

  24. Discussion Questions • What are your questions about how Evidence2Success can support the school board’s vision? • Which goals and challenges can Evidence2Success help you address?

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