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Income Design Team

Team Purpose:To provide short term support in the development of community level strategies for anindentified community outcome and target population. The team will be accountable fordelivering upon the following:

Elevate a community level strategy or strategies of promise that can supportachievement of the desired community outcomes.

Design of a pilot program (this would roll into the product development process).

Recommendation for measuring community change.The aforementioned deliverables may formulate a whitepaper, pilot proposal or RFP.

Team Members:Carla Andorf IWD- Skills to Employment/ GAP Tuition AssistanceEd Barrett Strengthening Families Impact TeamLinda Bigley Strengthening Families Impact TeamBrenda Dodge IWD- Iowa City Manager

Trish Downing IWD- Regional SupervisorKathy Harmon Catholic CharitiesKim Johnson Kirkwood Community CollegeTiffany Myers IWD-Promise Jobs ConsultantEden OConnor Disability NavigatorCarlos Vega IWDBrian Whitehead Kaplan UniversityLeslie Wright United Way of East Central IowaJudy Stoffel United Way of East Central Iowa

Duration:

6 months: November 2009 through April 2010.

Reports to:Strengthening Families Impact team and staff

Projected Timeline of Activities:

November:

Engage design team in the objectives of the group and lead into summary ofresearch to date highlighting community outcome, target population, criticalobstacles, underlying issues, and magnifying factors.

Review promising practices elevated by the team to address the underlyingissues; test for local relevance.

December:

Research, if needed, other promising practices to deal with underlying issues.

January:

Elevate a community level strategy or strategies of promise that can supportachievement of the desired community outcomes.

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Review map of resources in our community and discuss gaps.

February:

Identify what replication looks like locally, including receptacles to reach targetpopulation.

Determine what action can be done absent of money as well as define how much

it would cost to implement a full scale pilot.

March:

Form a measurement plan

April:

Review recommendations and deliverables from team work.

Present recommendation to Strengthening Families Impact team.Recommendation may include:

o Strategies for enhanced collaboration between agencies to achieve thedesired outcome, including but not limited to: improved referral systems,

outreach to the population, and collaboration of resources.o Policy recommendations