the journey from families as consumers to family leadership: cultivating human capital to bring...
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The Journey from Families as Consumers to Family Leadership: Cultivating Human Capital to Bring
About Systems Change
Early Childhood 2010: Innovation for the Next Generation
August 2, 2010
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cartoon image: "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can."
About Us…
The Riley Child Development Center
•LEND program• Founded in 1970• Funded by Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)•Additional funding from grants, research and service reimbursement
The Sunny Start Initiative
•Indiana’s ECCS grant•Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) •Funded in July 2003
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Family Leadership Questions
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• How to expand the cohort of family leaders in Indiana?
• What are the priority groups?
• What competencies do family leaders need to have?– “Indianaize” Association of University Centers
on Disabilities (AUCD) Family Competencies
Overall initiative
Focus FIRST on families who have children
with disabilitiesExpand
outward to include a
broader group of families – First Steps,
Head Start, etc5
Indiana Family Leadership Initiatives
Partners
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• ARC• Parent to Parent• Governors' Council• Parent Training Initiative• Family to Family Health Information Center• United Cerebral Palsy• Down Syndrome Association• Autism Society• Alexandra Graham Bell• Hands and Voices• Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems • Local Parent to Parent organizations
FLI Process
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• Bringing partners together– Why are we committed?
• What do we each bring?
• What are the issues?
• Where do we want this to go?– outcomes
Family Leadership Initiative Outcomes
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• Families are informed and engaged in diverse roles that meet their
individual interests.
• Indiana family organizations and the systems, projects and agencies
that serve families will coordinate efforts to leverage resources and
facilitate improved family support and information.
• Indiana families will have meaningful participation and opportunities
for leadership on National, State and Local committees, boards and
projects related to the development, implementation and evaluation
of systems of care.
Indiana Family Leadership Competencies
Academic Model•Prescriptive technical language•Three tiers of leadership
– Family– Community– State/National
•Retained as working structure/background •May have utility for evaluation•CYSHC/Disability specific
Family/Public Translation•Non technical end-user focused language•Three tiers of leadership
– Family– Community– State/National Language used when accessing Initiative
•Usable by various family cohorts beyond disabilities
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Before….and After
Academic ModelDemonstrate an understanding and ability to implement principles of family-provider partnerships so as to assure the health and well being of children and their families.
Translation
Develop partnership relationships.
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Competencies and Key Skills
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• Competency 1: Family Provider Partnerships
• Develop Partnership relationships
• Use Effective Communication Strategies
• Competency 2: Cultural Proficiency
• Display cultural proficiency when building provider
relationships and working across systems
Competencies and Key Skills (continued)
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• Competency 3: Delivery and Support Systems
• Find and use needed resources
• Improve coordination and integration of service delivery
systems
• Competency 4: Advocacy
• Advocate for emerging best practices
• Influence systems to strengthen them
Resource Analysis Process
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• Step 1: Gather partner identified resources to evaluate• Step 2: Compare resources to key leadership behaviors
in competency model (satisfies knowledge and • Step 3: Rate the resource
– Fully meets the behavior (satisfies knowledge and skill building)
– Partially meets the behavior:
• Knowledge/skill building
– Minimally meets the behavior
• Step 4: Formulate findings and recommendations
Online Portal flow chart
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Next Steps
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• Facilitate a process where families can access a variety of opportunities:
– Fill gaps in trainings/learning opportunities
– Build individualized portfolios
– Identify training opportunities
– Fill gaps in learning opportunities
– Translate to additional populations of families
Next Steps –continued
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– Increase # of families involved in at all levels
– Increase # of families employed in leadership
roles
– Fund
– Market and package
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cartoon image: fairy tale I can believe
Contact Us
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Rylin RodgersRCDC Family Discipline [email protected] www.child-dev.com
Andrea L. WilkesPublic Health AdministratorMaternal and Children Health Indiana State Department of [email protected]