Audiovisual Sponsor
The Power of Partnerships: Pennsylvania's Journey from Shared Vision to Positive
Wellness Outcomes for Children and Families
Rose Gioia Fine, Manager for Consultation and Professional DevelopmentDyan Schauer, Manager for Special Projects
Project Funding
This presentation was supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health through the State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health and the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.
Warm Up Question
According to the Centers for Disease Control, what percentage of children between 2 and 19 years of age is considered obese?
a. 7.5%b. 17%c. 25.7%d. 42%
Collaboration Continuum
IntegrateCollaborateCoordinateCooperateCommunicateCo-existCompete
Keystone Kids Go! Partners• Head Start State Collaboration Office• Early Childhood Education Linkage System • Office of Child Development and Early Learning • Penn State Better Kid Care• Penn State Cooperative Extension• Pennsylvania Department of Education• Pennsylvania Department of Health• Pennsylvania Family Literacy• Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network• Philadelphia Department of Public Health• Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
National Partners
• I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IMIL)• University of North Carolina• Go NAP SACC• US Department of Agriculture• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HistoryPartners - 2003• PA Department of Health• PA Department of Education• Head Start State Collaboration Project• Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11• American Cancer Society• Nutrition Education Network • Penn State Cooperative Extension
Projects
History
2005• PA Department of Human Services• Funding through the Heinz Foundation• Renamed KEYSTONE Color Me Healthy
KEYSTONE Color Me Healthy
Keystone Kids Go! Catalog
History
2008 – Social Marketing Recommendations • (Phase 1): Conduct a formative assessment of the needs and values of early
childhood practitioners.• (Phase 2): Develop messages and strategies to engage early childhood
practitioners in improving nutrition and physical activity policies, practices, and environments within early childhood facilities.
• (Phase 3): Develop educational materials and a plan to communicate these messages and strategies to early childhood practitioners, parents, and children.
History
2009 – 2011• Pilot in 2010• Paper-based• Mini-grants• Letter of recognition• Early Childhood Education Linkage System
Self Assessment
Action Planning
Implementation
Reflection
History
2012 – CACFP Project • 200 early childhood education sites• Electronic – web-based• Mini-grants (for all participants)• Incentive mini-grants (for meeting nutrition benchmarks)• PA NAP SACC
Current Project
• CDC 1305 Grant• Pennsylvania Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for
Child Care• Implementation Partners o Penn State Better Kid Careo Early Childhood Education Linkage System
PA NAP SACC• Supports 100 licensed child care, Head
Start, early childhood education, and family child care homes
• Continuous Quality Improvement process – self-assessment, program improvement plan, professional development, and re-assessment
• Focus on policy – technical assistance from ECELS’ Childcare Health Consultants
Outcomes
Outcomes
Looking Ahead
• CoIIN Grantee – Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network• Integrating Health Standards in Early Childhood Education• Pilot the PA NAP SACC in Head Start classrooms
Building Partnerships
Collaborating agencies make a formal, sustained commitment to accomplishing a shared, clearly defined mission. Collaborative efforts can overcome such problems as fragmentation of client needs into distinct categories that ignore interrelated causes and solutions. They can make more services available or improve their accessibility and acceptability to clients”
Melaville and Blank 1993
What Makes Collaboration Work?
• Environment• Membership• Process/Structure• Communication• Vision• Resources
Mattessich and Monsey 1992
Envisioning Results
• Bring people together – get to know each other• Enhance trust• Develop a mission statement• Specify desired results
Kadel 1991; Melaville and Blank 1993; Winer and Ray 1994
Empower the Effort
• Authority, roles, commitment• Resolve conflict – have a process in place• Organize the effort – brand, structure, resources• Establish decision-making process and communication plan
Kadel 1991; National Assembly 1991; Winer and Ray 1994
Ensure Success
• Develop goals and an action plan• Change… evolve!• Assess progress• Continuously renew the effort
Melaville and Blank 1993; Winer and Ray 1994; Wynn, Merry, and Berg 1995
Endow Community
• Make the collaboration visible• Involve the community• Sustain the effort – revisit mission and goals
Kadel 1991; Winer and Ray 1994
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