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Up Your Game: Tools to Improve Services and Program Performance

Up Your Game: Tools to Improve Services and Program Performance.

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Up Your Game: Tools to Improve Services and Program Performance

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  1. Up Your Game: Tools to Improve Services and Program Performance

  2. “Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses and individuals in the private sector.” - President Barack Obama, Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, January, 2009

  3. Purpose • Introduce cciToolsforFeds.org • Provide context, background • Give you an overview of the tool • Answer and ask questions

  4. cciToolsforFeds.orgWhat is it? • Library of online resources for feds who fund and support CCIs • CCIs = systems change centered initiative • How to plan, manage, sustain CCI

  5. cciToolsforFeds.orgWho should use it? • Designedprimarily for fed policy, program staff to improve practice • Also of use to: • TA providers • Site staff • Evaluators • Private funders • Community groups

  6. The Impetus for the Toolkit

  7. cciToolsforFeds.orgHow was it developed? • Team identified criteria, selected CCIs • 40+ interviews of associated people • Drafted guidelines, convened forum • Created web site, recruited beta testers • Revamped in accord with feedback cciTools = Work in Progress

  8. cciToolsforFeds.orgWhen should it be used? • When you need or want to: • Write a solicitation, plan a budget, select and orient new sites • Construct cross-agency funding and other partnerships • Develop TA systems to support CCIs • Create appropriate evaluations for CCIs • Adapt tools others have used

  9. cciToolsforFeds.orgHow can I learn more? • Explore CCIToolsforFeds.org  • Tour the web site by clicking on guided introduction (webi nar done 10/22) • Request a briefing/training  • Contact us

  10. cciToolsforFeds.orgWhat do we want? • Explore CCIToolsforFeds.org  • Use the materials in your work • Send us comments & esp. tools and resources • Request a briefing • Incorporate into staff training & procedures • Share info with anyone who can benefit from site

  11. cciToolsforFeds.orgWho do I contact? Contact the CFE Resource Center:Robin Delany-Shabazz, robin.delany-shabazz@usdoj.gov, 202/307-9963Francesca Stern, francesca.stern@usdoj.gov, 202/616-3551 CCI Toolkit Interagency Work Group: Sarah Potter, HHS/ASPE Suzanne LeMenestrel, USDA Winnie Reed, DOJ/NIJ Trina Anglin, HHS/HRSA Curtis Porter, HHS/ACF LeBretia White, HHS/ACF Maria Queen, HUD Richard Morris, DOL/ETA Sharon Burton, ED Lois Nembhard, CNS Robin Delany-Shabazz, DOJ/OJJDP

  12. Interagency Working Group on Youth ProgramsandFindYouthInfo.gov

  13. Overview • Overview of the Working Group • Working Group activities Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  14. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs:Membership • Corporation for National and Community Service • Office of National Drug Control Policy • U.S. Department of Agriculture • U.S. Department of Commerce • U.S. Department of Defense • U.S. Department of Education • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Chair) • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development* • U.S. Department of Justice (Vice-Chair) • U.S. Department of Labor • U.S. Department of the Interior • U.S. Department of Transportation Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  15. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs:Activities • Create and support a Federal Interagency Website on Youth • Identify and disseminate effective strategies and practices that support youth • Promote enhanced collaboration at the Federal, State, and local level • Develop an overarching strategic plan for federal youth policy ** From Executive Order 13459, “Improving the Coordination and Effectiveness of Youth Programs,” and FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  16. Federal Interagency Website on Youth: FindYouthInfo.gov • Maps • Find federal youth-focused resources • Evidence based program directory • Find evidence-based programs to address risk and protective factors • Other features • Strategic Plan for Youth – Input Opportunity • Collaboration Center, Funding Information Center, and Data • Youth Topics • Spotlight Articles and Announcements Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  17. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  18. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs This feature – Map My Community – enables you to enter your zip code and find federally funded programs in your area – so you can identify resources and gaps.

  19. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs You can search by zip code or address. This search yields federal programs in New York City.

  20. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs You can also filter the data so that you are just searching by topic (housing, community development) or by funding agency. Find out more by clicking on the blue pins above and you’ll see a call out box with more information about each award.

  21. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs You can zoom in on the map to see programs, or retrieve a text only version. You can view this online or save to Excel for future use.

  22. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs The Evidence-Based Program Directory helps you find programs that address risk and protective factors in young people. You can search directly from the home page.

  23. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs You can search by risk factor, or protective factor, or browse all evidence-based programs in the directory. Here, we are searching by the risk factor, “Economic deprivation, poverty, residence in a disadvantaged neighborhood” to find programs that address this issue.

  24. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs The result? Thirty one programs have been evaluated on this risk factor.

  25. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs If you click on a program, like the Parent Child Development Center, you will learn about the intervention and the evaluation conducted. You will also see the name of a person you can contact to learn more about bringing this program to your community.

  26. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs The Working Group is assembling input to prepare a Strategic Plan for Youth.

  27. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs You can enter your ideas here. We are seeking input from a variety of federal and nonfederal resources, including youth.

  28. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs • From the home page, you also see: • the Collaboration Center, which provides real-world technical assistance to help partnerships; • the Funding Information Center, with links to Grants.gov and guidance for using Grants.gov; and • Federal youth data

  29. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs The Youth Topics section discusses what we know about youth topics of interest across federal agencies You can map just PYD programs here from the PYD topic page.

  30. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs The latest federal news on youth is shared through our Announcements section. And Spotlights (above) go more in depth into what federal programs are doing to support youth.

  31. Other Activities:Promote Enhanced Collaboration • The Working Group also works to • identify and engage organizations that can play a role in improving the coordination and effectiveness of programs serving youth • identify and promote initiatives and activities that merit strong interagency collaboration Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  32. Other Activities:Promote Enhanced Collaboration • Working Group is intentional about involving representatives of interagency collaborations that focus on youth issues (youth employment, violence and delinquency, mentoring, others) • Working Group encourages information-sharing about interagency collaborations through presentations and publications • Working Group promotes interagency collaborations through FindYouthInfo.gov Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  33. Other Activities:Strategic Plan on Federal Youth Policy • Required by FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act • Solicit input on youth programs and policies from young people, State Children’s Cabinet directors, non-profit organizations • Develop an overarching strategic plan for Federal youth policy • Prepare recommendations to improve coordination, effectiveness, and efficiency of programs affecting youth Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

  34. Thank you! For more information: • Martha Moorehouse • Martha.moorehouse@hhs.gov • Sarah Potter • Sarah.Potter@hhs.gov • Sarah Oberlander • Sarah.Oberlander@hhs.gov Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs

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