Working Differently:Solutions Create Strength

Strengthening Volunteerism in Ontario

June 8, 2007

Achieving Community Solutions

What makes the difference between a good movie and a bad movie?

“Getting everyone involved to make the same movie!”

- Francis Ford Coppola

Silo Services

AgencyA

ProgramB

Community

RegionC

ServiceD

DepartmentE

Community-Based Funding

Federal / ProvincialFunding

Municipal:Regional / Local

Funding

The Problem With Silos

Fragmented…

(dissipate leverage / ownership)

Prevent Clarity on the Outcome…

(not “making the same movie”)

Deceptive …

(“good people doing good things”)

C2R2 Head Start

School Readiness

Hand in HandPAIIR

Check In

Wait List

Wait List

Home Visits

Home Visits

Re-screen

Pass

Special Ed Referral

Re

ferr

al

*

*

Home Visits

Parent Education Classes (ECFE)

Preschool/Daycare Referrals

*

Major System Entry Point

RAF Supported

Olmsted County Birthing Center (OMC and Mayo)

Legal System Referrals

Does not Qualify or Qualifies but does not choose Programs

Screened prenatal or at hospital by doctors/staff

C2R2

Crisis Nursery

Baby Steps

Community Referrals to Child & Family Services

Red Team (Child Welfare Response Team)

Traditional Child Protective Services

Alternative Responses

Domestic Violence

Family Partners

Community Services / Targeted Early Intervention

Adolescent Services

Family Collaborative

Child Mental Health

Bright Futures

Steps to Success

Follow Along Home Visits

Children with Special Health Needs

Well Baby / Immunizations/WIC

Public Library

Special Educational Services

C2R2

PAIIR

Non-At Risk Programs

*

**

*

*

Public Heath Programs

Child & Family Services Programs

System Entry Point

*

Parenting Brief Intervention

Children that move into Olmsted County can be at a disadvantage because they don’t receive the initial information related to early childhood programs.

Other Community Resources

30

85

75

1400/Year or 7000 Birth to Five

80

1350

216

Arc Family Liaison

92

50

First Child At-Risk 400

350

Parenting Plus28

254

166

6000

200

≈1495

2005 Total 629

161 Referred

PHN Phone Consultation

107

ECSE

19referred

13

7

≈79

31 referrals

182

Home Visits

C2R2

Paiir/Schools

Public Health

County Social Service

Hard Referral (At Risk)

Hard Referral (Not At Risk)

Soft Referral

Migrant Head Start

*

Home Visits

Parenting Matters

Child Care System

*

Migrant Health

“Solutions Are Everything!”

Solutions frame and define the system Solutions attract and sustain community

engagement and enthusiasm. Solutions create enriched community

value in the nonprofit/voluntary sector. Solutions align action.

Working Differently:The How

Working Differently

In order to break from the SILOS, we need to be very intentional about our collaborations.

The Nonprofit / Voluntary Sector has to engage the community about its solutions beyond its activities/programs.

Working Differently

Collaboration should be to create connections which give us the breadth to aspire to solutions!

Collaboration should be to achieve those solutions for our communities!

Collaboration should be designed from the perspective of the outcome, not the silos!

Complex Systems:

Systems Embedded Within Systems

Classroom

District

Community

Children and

families

Working Differently: A Model

Markers of School Excellence•Teachers’ Education

•Teachers’ Experience

Effective Classroom Practices•Time on Academics

•Teacher-Child interactions

Children’s Literacy

Achievement

Parents and Home

Community Markers

Parent Education

Family and Community Resources

Children’s literacy at

school entry

.50 .50

.45.07

.08.04

.53

.17.44.08

The Solution is the Enterprise

Intentional Collaboration

Who throughout the community needs to be involved to get to the solution?

V.

The silo / usual suspects / coalition partners

Challenge: Work Differently

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

-- Albert Einstein

Change Model:Working Differently

Desired State

StructuresProcessesIndicators

Present State

Four Key Considerations for Achieving Community Solutions

How will the community provide…

1) Resources2) Decision – Making3) Accountability / Data4) Community Engagement

…for the solution?

Strengthening Volunteerism over Time

Process

Indicators

Structures

Rallying Resources

DecisionMaking

AccountabilityCommunity Engagement

Community Outcome

Aspiration

Thank You

Jay Connor

734-623-4952

jcrubicon @ aol.com

www.thecollaboratory.us