eccs and strengthening families collaboration kansas
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Implementing Strengthening Families:Kansas’ Experience
University of Kansas Institute for Educational Research & Public Service
Jackie Counts, MSW
Rebecca Gillam, LMSW
How we are connecting the efforts
Connecting to Other Initiatives
• Kansas Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (KECCS) Plan
• Kansas Strengthening Families Plan (KSFP)
• CBCAP (Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention) Programs
• Protective Factors Survey
• Early Childhood Initiative
What’s Worked
• Getting started
• “Strengthening Families” reaches a broad audience
• Visual roadmap
• Organize around content
• Neutral convener
Contributions to ECCS
• Cross-pollination with EC and SF• SF has a wider audience• SF has resonated in an unexpected way with
legislators• Has strengthened Goal 5 of the plan—Family
Supports• Has strengthened collaboration on the state
and community level• Integrates goals in both plans
Contributions to SF
• Cross-pollination with EC and SF
• Opened the door for new partnerships
• Gave prevention a place at the table
• Opportunities for funding
• Coordinated prevention efforts both within field and across fields
• Integrates goals in both plans
Financing
• CBCAP Funding• Early Childhood Block Grant
– $11.1 million (FY08-FY09)– Administered by the Children’s Cabinet– Driven by accountability-measures and research-
based programming, as well as a focus on at-risk children and underserved areas
• Early Childhood Initiative, National Alliance of Children’s Trust Funds
Next Steps
• ECCS and SF Parent Involvement Research Initiative
• Results-based Accountability
• Model Community Collaborations aligned with ECCS and SF
www.ksfplan.org
KECCS WEBSITEwww.keccs.org
Contact Information
• Kansas Strengthening Families Plan– www.ksfplan.org– Kansas KECCS Plan www.keccs.org
• James Redmon, Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund– [email protected]
• Jackie Counts, University of Kansas– [email protected]
• Rebecca Gillam, University of Kansas– [email protected]