dep’t of human rights professional development opportunity positive youth development may 8, 2006
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Dep’t of Human Rights Professional Development
Opportunity Positive Youth Development
May 8, 2006
Objectives
• Introduce Positive Youth Development.
• Introduce ICYD.
• Learn what you can do.
Positive Youth Development
• Ongoing process in which all youth are engaged and invested, and in which young people seek ways to meet their basic physical and social needs and build competencies and connections necessary for survival and success.
Positive Youth Development
• Ongoing process in which all youth are engaged and invested, and in which young people seek ways to meet their basic physical and social needs and build competencies and connections necessary for survival and success.
Basic Assumptions
• All youth are going to develop.
• All youth are going to try to connect with others.
• All youth interact on some level with adults.
• All adults (and youth) want youth to succeed and contribute to society.
PYD Nuts and Bolts
– Frames issues differently, focusing on the positive skills and attributes we want youth to have.
– Encourages collaboration across various sectors.
– Focuses on the services, opportunities, and supports young people need to become productive adults.
What the research says….
• National Academy of Sciences: Community Programs to Promote Youth Development
“Adolescents who spend time in communities that are rich in developmental opportunities experience less risk and show evidence of higher rates of positive development. A diversity of program opportunities in each community is more likely to support broad adolescent development and attract the interest of and meet the needs of a greater number of youth.”
• Research supports positive youth development programs:– Increases positive behavior and decreases problem behaviors– Youth/Adult partnerships work– Positive environments are proven to be effective
Now what?
• ICYD began in 1999
• Works to align policies of multiple youth-serving agencies.
• Promotes youth development and collaboration through the use of the Iowa’s Promise marketing message.
• Provides T/TA.
• Encourages Youth Involvement.
State Policy Work
• Adopted a Youth Development Results Framework with results, indicators, and strategies to guide the work of engaged agencies.
• CJJP decat process • Learning Supports initiative • ICVS Iowa’s Promise initiative• Iowa Afterschool Alliance • State-local collaboration sites • IDPH ESCAPe initiative • State of Promise AmeriCorps
Grants
National Recognition• Nat’l Crime Prevention Council• Nat’l Governor’s Association• Nat’l Council of State
Legislators• Ready by 21 Initiative• America’s Promise• Harvard Family Research
Project• Mott Foundation
Iowa Youth Development Results FrameworkResult Area
Components
FamilyAll Youth have the benefit of Safe and Supportive Families, Schools and Communities
Economic security, Basic needs (housing, food, etc.), Positive relationships with family members, Safe
communities, Safe and effective schools, Quality youth programs & opportunities, Positive connections with adults,
Continuum of effective services and interventions
YouthAll Youth are Healthy and Socially Competent
Physical and mental health status, Lifestyle choices (e.g., avoidance of risky behaviors), Personal and social
development, Pro-social relations
YouthAll Youth are Successful in School School attachment and Academic achievement
Youth All Youth are Prepared for a Productive Adulthood
Vocational and career awareness, Employability skills, Self sufficiency and Life skills, Civic engagement (voting),
Community involvement, and Youth Leadership
Adopted the Five Promises
1. Ongoing relationships with caring adults
2. Safe places to learn and grow
3. A healthy start and future
4. Marketable skills through effective education
5. Opportunities to give back through community service
Training and Technical Assistance
• Provide Advancing Youth Development Training
• Monthly e-files
• Access to data (Iowa Youth Survey)
• Website (www.icyd.org)
• Bring in speakers, tools, and hold policy forums.
• Task Force meetings, ICN’s, etc.
Youth Involvement
• YES Ambassador • Work with individual communities and
organizations around strategies.• Work with State of Promise program to
train AmeriCorps members to engage youth.
• Help group start youth advisory boards; include youth voice.
• Work with SIYAC
State of Iowa Youth Action Committee
• Started in 2000
• Designed to advise policy-makers and executive administrators.
• Serves as an advisory council to ICYD.
• Twenty diverse high school youth from across the state.
• Meets monthly in Des Moines and can be accessed by contacting Amy Croll.
How does this apply to you?Policy issues• Encourage collab with
established groups.• Adopt language that allows
flexibility @ the local level.• Utilize existing groups for
funding when poss. and encourage locals to do the same.
• Focus on the outcomes we want for youth instead of what we want them to avoid.
Training and technical assistance
• Utilize services provided such as policy forums, trainings on PYD, etc.
• Get involved in shaping some of ICYD’s activities.
• Challenge us to think of populations that we typically don’t reach.
• Promote training opportunities/website to locals looking for info on youth, data, and/or ways to involve young people in programs and community.
Youth Involvement
• Utilize SIYAC as a sounding board if you don’t have another youth group to gather feedback and input from.
• Encourage local/state groups who are trying to involve youth on their boards to be trained in youth/adult partnerships.
• Before engaging youth, make sure to articulate the purpose of their engagement and have a role for youth to play.
Making the Grade in Iowa
Supports Supports for Student for Student Learning & Learning & PerformancPerformancee
For every student in every school and community in Iowa
to achieve at high levels requires that schools and
school districts, in collaboration with their
community partners, develop a comprehensive, cohesive
approach to delivery of learning supports that is an integral part of their school
improvement efforts.
The Vision
-- Judy Jeffrey, 2004
Learning SupportsActivities, programs, and services (beyond core
classroom instruction) that are intended to facilitate the learning and development to
ensure student success in school and in life.
System of Learning Supports
A set of supports, internal and external to the educational system, that operate cohesively as a comprehensive continuum to support learning for all students in a school.
Barriers to
Learning
Learning Supports
Success in School
No Barriers
Range of Learners
= Motivationally ready & able to learn what the teacher is prepared to teach
I
II =
Some students who are not very motivated/ lacking prerequisite knowledge & skills
III =
A few students with complex and intensive barriers to their learning
1. Classroom focused supplements to instruction
2. Safe, healthy, and caring learning
environments
3. Support for transitions
4. Family support and involvement
5. Child/Youth engagement
6. Community partnerships
Community Outreach
Character Education
Substance Abuse
Prevention
Violence PreventionACADEMICS
Family Life
Educa-tion
Health
Educa-
tion
Service Learning
Parent Programs
Getting from a fragmented system with multiple goals…
Family Support
and Involve-ment
Transitions
Safe, Healthy School
Environ-ment
Supplements to Instruction
Academics
School-Family-Community Partnerships
All Iowa children & youth are successful in school
…to a system of Learning Supports oriented toward student achievement
A Resource Management Team
Academic Academic Instruction Instruction
(Direct facilitation (Direct facilitation of learning)of learning)
LeadershipLeadership
(Governance and (Governance and Resource Resource
Management)Management)
Learning Learning SupportsSupports
(Addressing Barriers to (Addressing Barriers to Development & Learning)Development & Learning)
Working Together to Improve Student Outcomes
All Iowa youth are
successful in school
Agencies(Human Services, Health, etc.)
Organizations(YMCA, Scouts, 4-H, Parks & Rec.)
Families
Faith-Based Groups
Business
Youth as Partners
To fulfill our Promises to Iowa Children & Youth:
• Caring Adults
• Safe Places
• A Healthy Start
• Marketable Skills
• Opportunities to Serve
Iowa Department of Public Health
Iowa SAFE Community Network
• Program began in 1989• Substance abuse free
environment• Now SAFE – a safe
community• SAFE is a planning and
organizational framework to reduce substance abuse in Iowa communities
• Organize people – build a coalition or join forces with other community efforts
• Provide training• Assess the Community’s Needs• Create a 3 Year Plan
SAFE - Purpose
• The Mission of the Iowa SAFE Community Network is to build a safe and healthy Iowa by mobilizing local coalitions to coordinate community-wide (neighborhood, county) prevention efforts, which reduce substance abuse, violence, crime and associated problems.
How does the Work We Do Help Communities in Iowa?
• Organize efforts, avoid duplication
• Build capacity to address substance abuse issues
• Bring together sectors in the community
• Assess current strengths and needs in the community
• Create a plan of action to address issues identified in the assessment
• SAFE is not a “program” but an organizing framework
Prevention Strategies used by SAFE Coalitions
• Information and AwarenessHost a community forumDevelop a resource guideArticles for local
newspaper
• Environmental StrategiesTobacco free restaurant
ordinancesKeg Registration
Compliance checks at convenience stores
• Alternative ActivitiesHost substance free
community activities for youth and adults.
Promote or host Alcohol free after Prom and graduation parties
Who Are Our Partners?
• 23 Comprehensive Prevention Agencies
• Community Coalitions throughout the State of Iowa
• Iowa Collaboration for Youth Development
• New partnership – America’s Promise
How might SAFE and Community Partnerships
work together?• Do you know if there is a
SAFE coalition in your community?
• Attend a SAFE coalition meeting, share what your goals are or invite them to your meeting.
• If goals are similar, support shared initiatives, activities
• Involve youth in both groups, have members represented in each group
• Consider joining forces
I have a question…
• Contact:
Marilyn AlgerIowa Department of Public Health(515) 281-4816
Community Community EmpowermentEmpowerment
Achieving Results
Iowa Community Empowerment
“Empowerment was founded on the vision that communities and state government could work together to improve the well being of families with young children.”
--- Dr. Robert Koob, Iowa Empowerment Board Chairperson
December, 2000
Iowa’s Vision for Early Childhood:
Every child, beginning at birth, will be healthy and successful.
Purpose of Community Empowerment
• Build an early care, health and education system through– Partnerships;– Empower individuals and communities;– Improve the well-being of young children
and their families– Achieve results
State Structures Local Structures
State and Local PartnershipShared Responsibility
• Achieving Results
• Citizen Involvement
• Strengthen Systems Alignment
• Build Collaboration/ Partnerships
• Accountability
Community Empowerment Structure
State Advisory Councils Community
Empowerment AreasIowa
Empowerment Board
State Structures Local Structures
Office of Empowerment
Community Empowerment Area Contacts
Local Advisory Council
State Empowerment
Team
Technical Assistance Partners
(AEAs, Community Colleges, ISU
Extension, Other)
Result Areas/Indicators• Healthy Children
• Children Ready to Succeed in School
• Safe and Supportive Communities
• Secure and Nurturing Families
• Secure and Nurturing Child Care Environments
• Low Birth Weight• Immunized Children
• Pre-literacy Skills• Children in Quality Preschools
• Crime Rate• Juvenile Crime• Employment Rate
• Incidence of Child Abuse• Teen Births
• Child Abuse in a Child Care Setting
• Availability of Child Care• Quality Child Care Ratings (in
development)
*The Iowa Empowerment Board approved the revised indicators on September 9, 2005, to track statewide progress toward the results.
Iowa Empowerment Board Leadership Agenda – FY 2006
Achieving Desired Results
The Iowa Empowerment Board will empower Iowans and their communities to achieve desired results for improving the quality of life for children (0-5) and their families.
Collaboration
The Iowa Empowerment Board, public and private organizations, and communities develop collaborations to build an interdependent system that is both comprehensive and integrated, for children (0-5) and their families.
Advocacy
The Iowa Empowerment Board will lead policy development and build public engagement for support for Early Childhood and Early Learning for children (0-5) and their families.
State Empowerment Team
• Interagency Representation– Department of Economic Development– Department of Education– Department of Human Rights – Department of Human Services – Department of Management – Department of Public Health
• Staff time in kind contribution from departments
• Team provides technical assistance to communities
State Empowerment Team
• Technical Assistance– Provide assistance to community empowerment
areas – Disseminate information statewide – Promote community capacity and leadership– Provide guidance on system building– Provide connections or linkages to additional
assistance• i.e. co-sponsoring training with PCA-Iowa and CPPC
www.empowerment.state.ia.us• Newsletter• Empowerment Legislation• Meeting Agendas/Minutes• CEA Local Information - map• Result/Data Information & Links• Tool Kit• Advocacy Toolkit
Community Empowerment
Areas
• 58 areas representing all 99 counties
• Areas are geographically self-defined
• Areas implement community plans
Geographic Areas
Empowerment Areas
LYONOSCEOLA DICKINSON
EMMET
KOSSUTHSIOUX O’BRIEN CLAY PALO ALTO HANCOCK
WINNEBAGO
CLINTON
WORTH MITCHELL HOWARD
FLOYDCHICKASAW
WINNESHIEK
FAYETTE
ALLAMAKEE
CLAYTON
PLYMOUTH CHEROKEE BUENA VISTA HUMBOLDTWRIGHT FRANKLIN
BUTLER
WOODBURYIDA SAC
CALHOUN WEBSTER HAMILTON HARDIN
MONONA CRAWFORDCARROLL
GREENEBOONE STORY
MARSHALL
BREMER
BLACK HAWKBUCHANAN
DELAWARE DUBUQUE
GRUNDY
TAMA
JACKSON
BENTONJONES
LINN
CEDAR
POWESHIEKJOHNSON
JASPER
KEOKUK
IOWA
WASHINGTONMAHASKA
MUSCATINE
SCOTT
MARION
LOUISA
POLK
MILLS
HARRISON
POTTAWATTAMIE
SHELBY
CASS
GUTHRIE
MADISON
DALLAS
ADAIR WARREN
AUDUBON
FREMONT
MONTGOMERY
PAGE
ADAMS
TAYLOR RINGGOLD
UNION CLARKE
DECATUR
LUCAS
WAYNE
MONROE
APPANOOSE
WAPELLO
DAVIS
JEFFERSON
VAN BUREN
LEE
HENRYDES MOINES
POCAHONTAS
CERRO GORDO
Community Empowerment Boards
Composition:• Majority Citizen/Elected Official• Representation Includes:
• Business • Consumer • Faith • Education • Health• Human Services
Community Empowerment Boards
• Overview/Role:– Promote and demonstrate community collaboration
– Community assessment
– Coordinate Planning
– Establish priorities
– Develop a system for comprehensive services to support families and communities
– Coordinate program/funding to meet needs and priorities
Road to ResultsAchieving Results
•Healthy Children•Children Ready to Succeed in School•Safe and Supportive Communities•Secure and Nurturing Families•Secure and Nurturing Child Care Environments
Ongoing Assessments
Redesignation Process•Occurs every three years•Confirms communication action, process and effort•Continuous improvement•Time for reflection
Grant and Budgeting Process•Conducted annually•Submit changes, new items to State Empowerment Office
Celebrating SuccessesTraining
Sessions
Annual Report•Compiled annually•Includes the two-page showcase report Community Plan
•Building the foundation•Living and breathing, ever-changing document•Sets priorities•Guides decision-making
Achieving Results
• Healthy Children
• Children Ready to Succeed in School
• Safe and Supportive Communities
• Secure and Nurturing Families
• Secure and Nurturing Child Care Environments
Community Plan
• Building the foundation
• Living and breathing, ever-changing document
• Sets priorities
• Guides decision-making
School Ready
• Support comprehensive services for children ages zero through five, including: – Preschool and child care– Home visitation & Parent support – Prenatal services– Professional development– Up to 3% for administrative funds
Source: State funds
Early Childhood
• Enhance quality child care capacity in support of parent capability to obtain or retain employment, including:– regular child care, including recruitment of
providers– child care for mildly ill children– second or third shift child care– infant child care– training to increase quality for center-based and
home-based child care providers
Source: Federal Funds
Redesignation Process
• Occurs every three years
• Confirms communication action, process and effort
• Continuous improvement
• Time for reflection
Office of EmpowermentShanell Wagler, Facilitator
Iowa Department of Management
Capitol Building, Room 12
Des Moines, IA 50319-0001
515/281-4321
www.empowerment.state.ia.us
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