Dep’t of Human Rights Professional Development Opportunity

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.

More informationwww.icyd.org

Amy CrollAmy.croll@iowa.gov281-5999

Steve Michael281-6509Steve.Michael@iowa.gov

Carla BennettCarla.bennett@iowa.gov242-5836

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

Deb.Samson@iowa.govPEC Coordinator

515-242-5295

Jane.Todey@iowa.govLearning Supports Consultant

515-281-8514

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

malger@idph.state.ia.us

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

shanell.wagler@iowa.gov

www.empowerment.state.ia.us

How can we build win-win collaborations to

better serve children, families and our organizations?