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Stakeholder Engagement Sessions

INTRODUCTIONS

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Purpose of the Engagement Sessions

Increase understanding of Collective Impact

Update you on what the Collective Impact for Toronto Youth Initiative (CITY) has been up to

Understand your organizational motivations, priorities, and ideas for narrowing our common agenda

Prepare your organization to participate in the Collective Impact April Event, including making informed decisions about narrowing our common agenda and approving a governance model

Gather any feedback related to planning for a successful April Event 3

Agenda (approx. 2hrs)

Introductions

Collective Impact: an overview

Collective Impact for Toronto Youth (CITY): What we’ve been up to

The Toronto Context: narrowing the common agenda

Proposed Governance Model

April Event: Making it Count!

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Activity: Participant Introductions

Please share your name and position within the organization

Choose one or two additional questions to answer as part of your introduction: How are you feeling today? What motivates you to do the work that you do? What is something that you have learned from a

young person? What do you value about working collaboratively? What is something you are hoping to get out of this

session? What is something that you are looking forward to?

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COLLECTIVE IMPACT:

AN OVERVIEW

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Activity: Reflection Take a moment to write down one or two

key benefits to Collaboration.

Share

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Video Introductions FSG Video: What is

Collective Impact FSG is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research.

CITY Video: Collective Impact for Toronto Youth

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What is Collective Impact?Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.

5 Conditions of Collective Impact Common agenda: all participants have a shared vision for change

Shared measurement systems: agreement on the ways success will be measured and reported

Mutually reinforcing activities: activities that support and are coordinated with the actions of others

Continuous communication: regular meetings and communication to develop trust, collaborative processes, and to share success

Backbone support team: separate organization(s) with paid staff time to plan, manage and support the Collective Impact initiative

9 *Adapted from: Kania, J. & Kramer, M. (2011) “Collective Impact,” Standford Social Review: Winter

What the Research Tells Us?

Large-scale social change comes from cross-sector coordination rather than isolated interventions of individual organizations

Greater progress could be made in alleviating many of our most serious and complex social problems if nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public were united by a common agenda

Funders see the potential of Collective Impact projects and are often more likely to support Collective Impact than choose to fund a single organization’s initiative

Collective Impact has demonstrated results

10* Adapted from: Kania, J. & Kramer, M. (2011) “Collective Impact,” Standford Social Review: Winter

Examples: Collective Impact in Action

StriveTogether: A collective impact project in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to improve student outcomes.

During its first five years in Greater Cincinnati, Strive noted positive improvements in 40 of the 53 educational outcomes it measured.

http://www.strivetogether.org

E3 Alliance: E3 Alliance involves and energizes diverse stakeholders to build community will, maintain and build momentum, and drive toward shared commitment for higher student outcomes and a strong economic future in Central Texas.

http://e3alliance.org

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Activity: ReflectionDoes Collective Impact differ from your

understanding of collaboration? If so how?

Take a moment to write down one or two added benefits of Collective Impact.

Share

Questions about Collective Impact?

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COLLECTIVE IMPACT for

TORONTO YOUTH (CITY)What we’ve been up to

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History June 22, 2012 - Evergreen Brickworks: Approximately 60 people gathered

to explore the concept of developing a Collective Impact initiative related to improving outcomes for youth in the city of Toronto. The Collective Impact for Toronto Youth Core Team (Core Team) was formed.

Fall – Winter 2012 - The Core Team mapped their assets and proposed collective principles and a broad common agenda

Spring – Summer 2013 - The Core Team researched mapping projects, on-line tools and complimentary initiatives

Fall – Winter 2013 - The Core Team attended collective impact training and applied new knowledge to setting a framework and work plan for next steps.

December 2013 - The Core Team circulated a Request for Proposals to hire interim back bone staff

January 2014 - The Core Team hired interim backbone staff to re-engage stakeholders and drive the process for developing a shared agenda

Winter 2014 - The Interim Backbone staff engage stakeholders to update them on progress to date and gain their input on focusing the common agenda and choosing a governance model

April 28th, 2014 - Key stakeholders are invited to attend a Shared Agenda Setting Event and vote on a governance model and processes for moving forward

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Activity: Video ReviewCITY Video:

Reflecting on Our Progress

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Broad Common Agenda: Theory of Change

Vision / Mission / Goals

Vision: All youth in Toronto experience

maximum health, and are skilled and safe so that they can be equal

participants in our city.

Mission We will accomplish this through

increased access to opportunities, improved cross- sectoral coordination

and the development of shared measurement systems.

Goals: All youth between the

ages of 13-24 the furthest away from opportunities will:

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Health

Initiative Outcomes

•Enhanced access to culturally appropriate mental health treatment•Be supported by positive adult relationship•Be more physically active•Practice healthy habits•Experience less anxiety, depression

Education/

Employment

Community Outcome

Be physically and mentally healthy and emotionally well

Community Outcome

Experience safe and caring learning environments that support social and academic /skills development

Initiative Outcomes

•Improved educational experiences that respond to youth needs•Increased high school graduation rates•More youth find meaningful employment •Access diverse training and apprenticeship opp.

Civic Engagem

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Safety

Community Outcome

Have their voice heard and positively impact their community

Initiative Outcomes

•More youth play a leadership role in informing decisions that affect them•More youth are active in addressing social issues in their communities

Community Outcome

Have safe places in the community where they are welcomed and supported

Justice System

Community Outcome

Be respected by the youth justice system

Initiative Outcomes

•Improved safe transportation options•Increased safe outdoor spaces for arts, sports and recreation•More youth feel safe in their communities

Initiative Outcomes

•Improved relationships between community and police (police accountability)•Better reintegration into community•Increased diversion•Individualized sentencing•Knowing rights•Not committing crimes•Youth have greater access to programs

The Broad Common Agenda

Criteria for Narrowing the Broad Common Agenda

Urgency: Is there compelling need for collective impact in this area?

Resources: Are there existing and potential resources dedicated to this need/area?

Momentum: Are there existing projects, initiatives, or change already happening (or planned) for this area?

Furthest Away/Marginalization: Would a collective impact project in this area benefit youth the furthest away from supports and resources?

Scalability: Would it be possible to do a large-scale / cross-sectoral project in this area?

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Where are we? The Four Key Phases of CI

Components for Success

Identify champions and form cross-

sector group

Create infrastructure (backbone and

processes)

Convene community stakeholders

Facilitate community

outreach

Engage community and build public

will

Map the landscape and use data to

make case

Create common agenda (common

goals and strategy)

Hold dialogue about issue, community

context, and available resources

Facilitate community

outreach specific to goal

Analyze baseline data to ID key

issues and gaps

Establish shared metrics (indicators, measurement, and

approach)

Facilitate and refine

Continue engagement and

conduct advocacy

Support implementation

(alignment to goal and strategies)

Collect, track, and report progress

(process to learn and improve)

Determine if there is consensus/urgency

to move forward

Phase IIIOrganize for

Impact

Phase IIInitiate Action

Phase IGenerate Ideas

and Dialogue

Governance and Infrastructure

Strategic Planning

Community Involvement

Evaluation AndImprovement

Phase IVSustain Action

and Impact

* Resource borrowed from Innoweave materials

Questions about CITY’s work to date?

Next Steps…Using the criteria to narrow the broad common agenda

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THE TORONTO CONTEXTWhat does the data tell us?

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Activity: Snapshot of Toronto Youth1: Rank each outcome area according to the

5 criteria. Use you own knowledge of each area – the Snapshot Cards are there for additional info, but we do not expect you to read them in detail. It’s OK if you don’t finish or if your answers change down the road – this activity is intended to create dialogue and a deeper understanding of these outcome areas.

2: Identify your organization’s top 2 priority areas and potential metrics you would be interested in addressing Is your decision based on any external

metrics/data that we should be aware of?

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Next Steps for Narrowing the Broad Common Agenda

At the event we will present back what we found and highlight themes and alignment so that the group may choose a focused common agenda.

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PROPOSED

GOVERNANCE MODEL

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Proposed Governance Model

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Activity: Governance Model As an organization, please take time to review

the Proposed Governance Model and accompanying handouts prior to April

We’ll be looking for input on the model in April so that we can move forward with a Collective Impact infrastructure that outlines membership, responsibilities, decision making..

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MAKING IT COUNT!COLLECTIVE IMPACT FOR TORONTO YOUTH

April 28th at The 519 Church Street Community Centre

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Making it Count Event: Purpose Review data gathered from the stakeholder

engagement sessions

Choose the priority metric or focus that the CITY Clusters will attempt to impact (narrow the "common agenda”)

Provide input on a proposed governance model for CITY moving forward (including decision-making and membership structures)

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Making it Count! Registration

The Making It Count! event will be held on April 28th at 519 Church St. It will be a full-day event.

All attendees can register online at: http://www.studentscommission.ca/city/register2014.php

We hope you will have a senior decision-maker, a frontline worker and a youth representative attend the event. All attendees must individually register.

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Making it Count! Expectations In order to be well informed for meaningful participation

and decision making, we hope that all attendees of the April 28th Making it Count! event will attend a Stakeholder Engagement Session.

Between now and the April 28th, we hope that organizations will review the information we have shared and develop an organizational position on the following topics:

What outcome area are you most interested in working on through a Collective Impact approach?

What focus/specific metric are you interested in moving the needle on? (Narrowing the broad common agenda)

Are you committed to moving forward with this initiative and the proposed governance model?

(we’re on board! / we’ve still got questions… /we can’t be involved at this time )

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Activity: Making it Count! What do you want to see?Discussion

If you attended the Collective Impact Event in 2012 at Brickworks Evergreen, what did you like/dislike?

Do you have any recommendations for the Making it Count! April Event?

What do you hope to see/experience/get out of the event?

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THANK YOU!We know your time is valuable – thanks

for spending this time with us!

Hope to see you April 28th at The 519!

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