The Route to Success System Change Model

1. The Route to Success System Change Model Using it with Grantees, Council members and Council staff Graham Mulholland, PA DD Council Lee Vorderer, Human Services Research Institute

2. Our plans for this session: • Review quickly the Route to Success model • Discuss how a DD Council might use it within the Council • In general and how the PA Council is beginning • Discuss how a DD Council might use it with Council staff • In general and how the PA Council is beginning • Discuss how a DD Council might use it with grantees • In general and how the PA Council is beginning

3. Our plans continued… • Discuss how a DD Council might use for planning • In general and how the PA Council is beginning • Discuss how a DD Council might use it for proposal selection • In general and how the PA Council is beginning • Discuss how a DD Council might use it in grants management • In general and how the PA Council is beginning

4. What is system change and who makes it happen? It… • Involves “making changes in the way major parts of community service systems…are linked together and how they function.”* • Focuses on goals or outcomes • Is usually a result of small steps over time • Typically has a dedicated group of advocates or an individual champion • Sees individual advocacy as essential * Center for Civic Partnerships, 2001.

5. The Route to Success Model • Is built on system change work in other fields • Accounts for the mission of the Council • Describes activities that support system change • Allows grantees and others to label by type their work • Helps reveal the bigger picture

7. Potential Uses of the Model • Promote the use of a variety of strategies by individual projects to achieve success • Facilitate the development of project goals, logic models, and evaluation plans • Enable project participants to keep system change as a focus of their work • Evaluate past or current strategies used by the Council as a whole – are there any gaps? • Assist Council staff in connecting their various system change activities

8. Working with grantees • Field test findings • Evaluation • Creating a context for the work • Connecting to other projects • Robin’s story • Looking outside the box • Jennifer’s story • Building on what we did before • Moving on and moving up

9. Grantee opportunities • The RFP • Describe system change over all and in context of specific projects • The Pre-Proposal Conference • Training – the Road Show • The System Change objective • Start up with new grantees • Quarterly and annual reports • Extension Funding Requests

10. What the PA Council is doing • Uses with Grantees/Project Management • Transportation to Work • Transition to Adult Life • School Inclusion • Community of Choice • Bus Driver Training

11. Council planning opportunities • Completing a retrospective examination of effort • Taking a macroscopic look at progress • Preparing for five year planning • Council project scan – what hasn’t been done yet? • Selecting priority areas • Building on what’s going before • Identifying specific project areas • Maybe selecting a new activity type • Setting evaluation requirements • Requiring system change as a report category

12. How the PA Council is using the model for its planning • Preparing for the Five Year Plan • Round Tables/Colloquia • Spectrum of Efforts • Evaluation of Past Efforts • Future Progress • Transition • Cross-Disability • Mission Areas • Identifying missed opportunities • Stigma • Cross Disability

13. PA Planning Continued… • Prioritizing Areas of Emphasis • Revising RFP Process • Identifying Opportunities; Avoiding Perseveration and Redundancy

14. Grants/activities management • Help grantees think in new ways about their work • Connect grantees with other related projects and with each other • Plug in holes

15. What the Pa Council is Doing in Grants/Activities Management • Proposal Requirements • Quarterly Reporting • Ongoing Evaluation/Monitoring • Identifying Connections • Continued Funding Decisions

16. Other Council work • Staff • Maintaining a system change focus • Coordination with other efforts • Connecting grantees with one another • Connecting grantees with other related projects • Statewide listening sessions – data collection, environmental scans • Web site • Highlight the focus on system change • Publications • Brochures • Council conference presentations

17. What the PA Council is doing • Staff Supervision/Planning • Individual staff members • Overall staff work • Grantee Connections • With one another • With other related projects • Analysis of Public Input • Use of the matrix to analyze input • Information from other state activities

18. Ways that other Councils might want to begin to use the model • Grantee objectives • Council training/new member training • In RFP content • In round table discussions with current grantees and with Council members • In web site content

19. Final thoughts from PA… • Analyzing missing approaches in the matrix • Analyzing redundancies in the matrix • Strategizing intended new approaches/goals • Changing the culture

20. Questions from the audience

21. Contact information for us • Graham Mulholland Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council - Harrisburg OfficeRoom 561 Forum Building605 South DriveHarrisburg, PA 17120Voice: 717-787-6057TTY: 717-705-0819 Toll Free: 1-877-685-4452 gmulhollan@state.pa.us • Lee Vorderer Human Services Research Institute 2336 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140 Voice: 617-876-0426 x 2324 lvorderer@hsri.org