Whole Family Approach Building Blocks

August Webinar Wednesday

August 22, 2018 – 2 pm ET/ 1 pm CT/ 12 pm MT/ 11 am PT

THE PROMISE OF COMMUNITY ACTION

Community Action changes people’s lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities, and

makes America a better place to live.

We care about the entire community and we are dedicated to helping people

help themselves and each other.

Purpose: The purpose of the LCRC is to analyze Community Action outcomes and identify effective,

promising, and innovative practice models that alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty.

BUILD CAA CAPACITY TO FIGHT POVERTY!

Open LCGs

• Health Intersections

• Decreasing Family Homelessness

• Results at the Community Level

• Cultivating Data Centered Organizations1

Intensive LCGs

• Integrated Services to Improve Impact

• Financial Empowerment for Families

• Whole Family Approaches for Economic Mobility from Poverty LCG

Community of Practice

• Whole Family Approaches for Economic Mobility from Poverty COP

THE LEARNING COMMUNITY

THE LEARNING COMMUNITY

RURAL

URBAN

CULTURALLY DIVERSE

FIELD LEADERS

407 Counties

Total individuals served: 1,640,775

LCRC TEAM

Charity Frankowski, VISTA Lead, Rural IMPACT

Tiffney MarleyProject Director, LCRC

Jeannie ChaffinConsultant

Whole Family Approach Building Blocks

A Whole Family ApproachMeets the Needs of Children and

Parents Together.

Source: Ascend at the Aspen Institute, Two-Generation Playbook

WHOLE FAMILY APPROACH FRAMEWORKS

ASCEND TWO-GEN THEORY OF CHANGE

FROM MAKING TOMORROW BETTTER TOGETHER

Whole Family Approach Building Blocks

Securing Funding and

Other Resources

Building and Using

LeadershipAttending to

Organizational Culture and

Systems

Engaging Family Voices

Aligning High Quality,

Intentional, Intensive

Services to Parents & Children Parent and

Child Service Integration

Understanding System, and

Policy Change That Supports Parents and

Children Designing and Implementing

with an Equity Lens

Building Block 1:Engaging Family

Voices

Engaging Family VoicesInside the CAA

• Seek and Listen to Customer Voices

• Engagement of Customers in Program Design

Engaging Family VoicesBeyond the CAA

• Connecting with Families New to CAA

• Including Families in Coalitions/Collaborations with Partners

Resources Engaging Families

• Engaging Parents and Developing Leaders, A Self-Assessment and Planning Tool for Nonprofits and Schools, Annie E. Casey

• Creating Solutions Together, Design Thinking , The Office of Family Assistance and 3 Grantees, Office of Family Assistance, Administration for Children and Families

Building Block 2:Aligning High

Quality, Intentional, Intensive Services to

Parents and Children

Quality, Intentional, Intensive Services Inside the CAA

• Early Childhood Education

• Postsecondary & Employment Pathways

• Health & Well-Being

• Economic Supports

• Social Capital

• Executive Functioning

• Parenting

Quality, Intentional, Intensive ServicesBeyond the CAA

• Engagement of Partners to Provide Full Range of Aligned Services for Parents and Children

Resources on Aligned Services• Two-Generation Playbook, Aspen Ascend• Exploration of Integrated Approaches to Support Child Development and

Improved Family Economic Security. OPRE Report, ACF, HHS• Serving Immigrant Families Through Two Generation Programs, Migration

Policy Institute• Investing in Innovation, Reflections on the Families Economic Success-

Early Childhood Pilots, Annie E. Casey Foundation• Breakthrough Ideas That Move Children and Their Parents Toward

Economic Success and Economic Security, Community Action Partnership Webinar Series

• Social Capital Building Toolkit, Saguaro Seminar, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• Advancing Two Generation Approaches: Developing an Infrastructure To Address Parent and Child Needs Together, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Building Block 3:Parent and Child

Service Integration

Parent & Child Service Integration Inside the CAA

• Family Centered Coaching

• Coordinated Family and Staff Meetings

• Integrated Program Engagements (e.g.—shared child and parent graduation events)

• Coordinated Scheduling

• Co-location

• No Wrong Door

Parent & Child Service IntegrationBeyond the CAA

• Integration Includes Partners and Systems Beyond the CAA

Resources on Parent & Child Service Integration

• Laying the Groundwork for Service Integration and a Whole Family Approach, Community Action Partnership Webinar

• Anti-Poverty Practice Series, Bundling Services to Improve Outcomes Case Study, Community Action Partnership

• Family Centered Coaching Toolkit, Prosperity Agenda• Cross-Systems Innovations: The Line of Sight or getting

from where you are to where you want to be.• Human Services System Integration: A Conceptual

Framework, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Building Block 4:Understanding

Systems and Policy Change That

Supports Parents and Children

Systems & Policy Change Inside the CAA

• Changes to CAA Systems

• Changes to CAA Policies

Systems & Policy ChangeBeyond the CAA

• Changes to Systems Outside the CAA

• Changes to Policies Outside the CAA

Resources on Systems and Policy Change

• Making Tomorrow Better Together: A Guide to Outcomes for 2Gen Policy Makers, Aspen Ascend

Building Block 5:Designing and Implementing with an Equity

Lens

Designing and Implementing with an Equity Lens Inside the CAA

• Recognize Institutional, Systemic and Structural Barriers that Perpetuate Inequity

• Co-Creation and Co-Ownership of Solutions• Exploration of Environmental Changes that

Promote Family Success• Staff Reflect the Diversity of the Communities

Being Served• Seek to Design and Deliver Strategies that Bridge

and Build Knowing, Relationships, and Mitigate Structural Bias Problems

Designing and Implementing with an Equity Lens Beyond the CAA

• Recognize Conscious and Unconscious Othering in Communities

• Changes to Policies/Process that Serve as Barriers to Families Due to Their Difference

• Seek to Deliver Strategies that Bridge and Build Knowing, Relationships, and Mitigate Structural Bias Problems with Partners and Communities

Equity Resources

• We the People: Practicing Belonging In A Period of Deep Anxiety, Haas Institute For a Fair and Inclusive Society

• Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation: Narrative Change,Community Action Partnership

• The Science of Equality, Volume 1: Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, And Stereotype Threat In Education and Health Care, Haas Institute For a Fair and Inclusive Society, and Center For Policing Equity

• Poverty And Race Through A Belongingness Lens, Northwest Area Foundation.

• National Equity Atlas• Advancing Racial Equity in Nonprofits, Georgetown

University

Building Block 6:Building & Using

Leadership

Building & Using Leadership Inside the CAA

• Connecting Whole Family Approach to Agency’s Mission

• Establishing a Shared Vision

• Articulating a Clear Purpose-Whole Family Mind Set

• Completing Strategic Plan and Program Planning/Design

• Creating Capacity for Agency Change and Learning

Building & Using Leadership Beyond the CAA

• Shared Vision Across Partners

• CAA Serves as Catalyst in the Community to Align Services That Support Parents and Children

• CAA Provides Supports and Resources to Create Community Change Effort That Focuses on Improving Conditions for Parents and Children

Resources on Building and Using Leadership

• Leading Change, Why Transformations Fail by John P. Kotter

• Eight Steps to Accelerate Change, John P. Kotter

• Introduction to Collective Impact, Community Action Partnership and Collective Impact Forum, FSG

• Collective Impact Roles and Developing Your Common Agenda, Community Action Partnership and Collective Impact Forum, FSG

• When Collective Impact Has Impact, ORS Impact and Spark Policy Institute

Building Block 7:Attending to

Organizational Culture and

Systems

Attending to Organizational Culture and SystemsInside the CAA

• Culture of Shared Purpose Exists Rather than a Grants Management Business Culture

• Staff Buy-In Across and Up and Down the Agency• Regular Communication Internally on Shared Purpose,

Plans, and Progress.• Strategic Communication with Customers and Stakeholders.• Organization Structure and Staffing Supports Intensive

Service Provision to Parents and Children• Organization Provides Cultural Competency Training and

Support• Staff Training and Development Investments

Attending to Organizational Culture and SystemsInside the CAA

• Supervision is Structured to Support Intensive Service Provision to Parents and Children

• Low Staff Turnover Maintains Continuity and Relationships with Families

• Culture of Learning and Continuous Improvement Exists Across the CAA

• Capacity to Attend to Data Collection, Analysis, Security and Confidentiality

• Strategies to Manage Data on Parents and Children Together

• Considerations for Future Evaluation

Attending to Organizational Culture and SystemsBeyond the CAA

• Partners Have a Shared Purpose with Goals and Measurements Articulated.

• Partners Have a Communication Structure In Place

• Support for Maintaining the Partnership Present

Resources on Organizational Culture and Systems

• Advancing Two Generation Approaches, Integrating Data To Support Families, Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Strengthening the Foundation, Strategic Evidence Building for Two Generation Approaches, Annie E. Casey

• Uplifting the Family: A Two Generation Approach, Community Action Partnership

• Family Centered Coaching Toolkit, Prosperity Agenda• Anti-Poverty Practice Series: Trauma Informed Care

Case Study, Community Action Partnership• Setting the Stage for a Data Centric Organization,

Community Action Partnership

Resources on Organizational Culture and Systems

• Becoming Data Centric, Using a Whole Agency Data Approach, Community Action Partnership

• Anti-Poverty Series, Trauma Informed Approaches- Three Cases,Community Action Partnership

• Building Intergenerational Success, Measuring Whole Family Outcomes, Community Action Partnership with Equal Measure

• Taking Data Out of Silos, Community Action Partnership• Program Level Data Collection, Community Action Partnership and Garrett

County Community Action Committee• Data Use for Continuous Quality Improvement: What the Head Start Field

Can Learn from Other Disciplines, A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework, OPRE, Administration for Children and Families,

• Culture of Continuous Learning Project: A Literature Review of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative, OPRE, Administration for Children and Families

Building Block 8:Securing Funding

and Other Resources

Securing Funding and Other Resources Inside the CAA

• Capacity and Plan to Blend and Braid Existing and New Funding

• Realignment and Linking of Services and Systems

• Plans to Take Pilots to Scale

Securing Funding and Other Resources Beyond the CAA

• Resources (Time and or Money) Have been Secured or Realigned to Support Mutually Reinforcing Activities

• Clear Plans and Memos of Understanding In Place

Resources on Securing Funding and Other Resources

• Advancing Two-Generation, Funding To Help Families Succeed, Annie E. Casey Foundation

Whole Family Approach Building Blocks

Securing Funding and

Other Resources

Building and Using

LeadershipAttending to

Organizational Culture and

Systems

Engaging Family Voices

Aligning High Quality,

Intentional, Intensive

Services to Parents & Children Parent and

Child Service Integration

Understanding System, and

Policy Change That Supports Parents and

Children Designing and Implementing

with an Equity Lens

QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

Sept 12: Opportunity Youth in 2Gen Practice

Sept 19: Building Wealth Across Generations

Sept 26: Community Engagement and Equity for Collective Impact

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September

2018 Annual ConventionLCRC Session Offerings

Whole Family Approach

Whole Family Approach:

Sustaining Two-Generation Programs

Understanding the Building

Blocks: A Whole Family

Approach

A Whole Family Approach: MultilevelStrategies

Mini-General

Racial Equity

Advancing Racial Equity-

Practical Steps for

CAAs

Facing Race: Designing

Programs to Bridge the

Racial Wealth Gap

Dr. Manuel Pastor

Keynote Speaker

Decreasing Homelessness

Housing Rural America: Place-Based Strategies to Address the

Changing Landscape of Homelessness

Results at the Community Level

Looking at Results from the Community Level: A Local

Agency Perspective

Cultivating Data-Centered

Organizations

Becoming a Data-Centered Organization

Health Intersections

CAA- Federally Qualified Health

CenterRoundtable

Our Lost Cousins –

Partnering with Federally

Qualified Health Centers to

Address Client Health Needs

Addressing the Social

Determinants of Health

Integrated Services

Integral Models of Care

LCRC Staff Contact Info:Tiffney Marley, Project Director, LCRC

tmarley@communityactionpartnership.com

Jarle Crocker, Director of Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA)jcrocker@communityactionpartnership.com

Courtney Kohler, Senior Associate, T/TAckohler@communityactionpartnership.com

Hyacinth (Xandy) McKinley, Program Associate, LCRChmckinley@communityactionpartnership.com

Liza Poris, Program Associate, T/TAlporis@communityactionpartnership.com

Charity Frankowski, VISTA Leadercfrankowski@communityactionpartnership.com

Jeannie Chaffin, Consultant for CA Economic Mobility Initiativechaffin.jeannie@gmail.com

This presentation was created by the National Association of Community Action Agencies – Community Action Partnership, in the performance of the U.S. Department

of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services Grant Number, 90ET0466. Any opinion, findings, and

conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.