CHILDREN’S CABINET NETWORK Virtual Roundtable December 14, 2009 Moderator: Elizabeth Gaines,...

CHILDREN’S CABINET NETWORK

Virtual RoundtableDecember 14, 2009

Moderator: Elizabeth Gaines, Policy Director

Hosted by The Forum for Youth Investment

About the Children’s Cabinet Network

• The Children’s Cabinet Network is made up of over 18 states who have executive level coordinating bodies for children and youth.

• Through regular conference calls and in-person convenings, this group shares best practices and experiences to strengthen their work to improve child and youth outcomes in their state and to build support for their work at the federal level.

2© 2008 The Forum for Youth Investment. Ready by 21 and the Ready by 21 Logo are registered trademarks of the Forum for Youth Investment.

Special Guests

• Elizabeth Laird, Program Manager, Data Quality Campaign• Shawn Stelow Griffin, Senior Program Associate, The Finance

Project• Bob Bowen, Consultant, The Forum for Youth Investment• Scott Hughes, New Mexico, Office of Education Accountability• Sue Gendron, Maine Commissioner of Education• And the many Children’s Cabinet Directors with exciting updates

to share


Agenda For Today’s Roundtable

• Welcome and Introductions

• Adding It Up: Mapping Public Resources for Children, Youth and Families - New tool added to the

Forum's suite of tools to help states map their resources; guest: Bob Bowen, consultant.

• Update From Ready by 21 Credentialed by 26 Meeting - Overview of upcoming opportunity with

the American Graduation Initiative.

• Update from the Disconnected Data = Disconnected Youth Meeting - Opportunities to expand the

dialogue on data sharing horizontally and vertically; Elizabeth Laird, The Data Quality Campaign.

• Funding the Continuum Of Child and Youth Issues In Tough Times - Other hot issues: Promise

Neighborhoods, Social Innovation Fund, AmeriCorps VISTA; creative financing options; Shawn

Stelow Griffin, The Finance Project.

• What Happens After the ARRA Funds Dry Up?


ADDING IT UP: MAPPING PUBLIC RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH AND

FAMILIES

New tool added to the Forum's suite of

tools to help states map their resources;

guest: Bob Bowen, Consultant, The

Forum for Youth Investment / President,

R. Bowen International.

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CYF Resource Mapping

• Why do it? Balance a portfolio of investments Coordinate agencies supports and services Maximize funding opportunities Make the case for additional investments

• Adding It Up – Brochure, Rationale and Guide to Mapping Public Resources for Children, Youth and Families http://forumfyi.org/content/adding-it-brochure-rationale-and-guide-mapping-public-resources-children-youth-families developed by the Forum for Youth Investment and The Finance Project

• Good state examples: New Mexico Children's Budget and Tennessee Resource Mapping


UPDATE FROM READY BY 21 CREDENTIALED BY 26 MEETING

Overview of upcoming opportunity with the American Graduation Initiative.


Insulating the Pipeline Systems Changes should focus on:

• Applying a youth centered approach• Becoming user friendly and easy to navigate• Involving partnerships with multiple

government sectors and community based organizations

• Ensuring a structure is in place to allow champions for young people in the broader PSE system

HR 3221 (American Graduation Initiative)

• President announced AGI in September• House passed HR 3221 (Student Aid and Fiscal

Responsibility Act) • Senate working up their version should expect to

see it from the Senate HELP committee by beginning of 2010


UPDATE FROM THE DISCONNECTED DATA = DISCONNECTED YOUTH

MEETING

Opportunities to expand the dialogue on data sharing horizontally and vertically; Elizabeth Laird, The Data Quality Campaign.


Interviews conducted with:


Current Recommendations

• Forging an interdepartmental approach• Promoting a comprehensive child and youth data

system or set of connected systems• Broadening allowable uses of Recovery Act

Funds• Engaging a broader set of partners• Engaging state and local officials expertise


Opportunity to Leverage Federal Funding

Source: Leveraging Federal Funding: A Roadmap for States

Linking Data Across Agencies

Source: Linking Data Across Agencies: States That Are Making It Work

State of the Nation

2005 2009

Source: 2009 Annual Progress Report on State Data Systems

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Contact the DQC:

Elizabeth LairdData Quality Campaign

[email protected]

www.DataQualityCampaign.org

FUNDING THE CONTINUUM OF CHILD AND YOUTH ISSUES IN TOUGH TIMES

& other hot issues: Promise Neighborhoods, Social Innovation Fund, AmeriCorps VISTA; creative financing options; Shawn Stelow Griffin, The Finance Project.


Child care After-school Civic/Social/Work Social & Strategic Placement Providers Programs Opportunities Supports & Coaching

LEARNING & ENGAGEMENT SUPPORTS

Insulating the Education Pipeline

BASIC SERVICES transportation, health, mental health, housing, financial

K – 12 SystemEarly Childhood

Post Secondary

Work & Career

P-20 EDUCATION PIPELINE

After-school - Civic Opportunities - Social Supports - Placement & Coaching

Examples of Federal Opportunities In the P-20 Education Pipeline

McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, SCHIP

K – 12 SystemEarly Childhood

Post Secondary

Work & Career

•American Graduation Initiative •Higher Education Opportunity Act

•Job Corps•AmeriCorps•Green Jobs

•Investing in Innovation Fund•High School Graduation Initiative (OVAE)•Fund for the Improvement of Education

•includes Data Quality•Diploma Plus (CYDE/ Funded by Gates)•Pathways to College Act•Enhancing Education Through Technology•School Improvement Grants•Teacher Incentive Fund

•Early Learning Challenge Grants•Head Start•IDEA Part C

•Serve America Act

•Child Care and Development Block Grant •Title 1 •IDEA Part B

--------------------- Race to the Top, State Longitudinal Data Systems ---------------------

•Summer Youth Employment Program•Workforce Investment Act

Comprehensive efforts to support the entire pipe: Full-Service Community Schools, Promise Neighborhoods, Social Innovation Fund

•21st Century Learning Centers

LEARNING & ENGAGEMENT SUPPORTS:

BASIC SERVICES:

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Increasing Flexibility in Funding Streams

• Differences in funding streams create strong disincentives/barriers to coordinate or combine resources:– Philosophical and cultural differences– Eligibility requirements– Program regulations– Funding flow and administration


Three General Approaches

• Coordination– Program or intermediary, or community

level strategy; least complex• Pooling

– State or county level strategy; more complex

• Decategorization– State or county level strategy; most

complex


Strategy 1: Coordination

• Requires significant organization and record keeping (e.g. planning, MIS, cost-accounting for tracking expenditures by funding source)

• Federal, state, and community leaders can support efforts through coordinating structures and functions, as well as technical assistance and training


Strategy 2: Pooling

• Combining monies from several agencies or programs into a single unified funding stream– Pooling state general funds and federal block

grants, and handing them down to counties and communities as local “block grants”

– Replacing a number of separate contracts from state or county agencies with one “master contract”

• Opportunities for greater local decision making and use of funds according to local needs and priorities

• Typically requires state agency approval and cooperations


Strategy 3: Decategorization

• Removing, reducing, or aligning requirements and regulations for relevant state and federal funding streams

• Typically requires either state legislative or state agency approval


Questions to Consider

• Are there opportunities to use resources already in the system better by coordinating, pooling, or decategorizing funds?

• Who are the relevant decision-makers, and how can you engage them?


Lessons Learned

• Financing strategies are a means of achieving desired ends

• Most effective when developed within the context of a larger planning process– Develop a clear vision and results orientation– Establish collaborative planning processes

and structures– Understand resource options and allocate

funds strategically– Develop needed infrastructure


Contacting Us

Shawn Stelow Griffin202-587-1003

[email protected]

The Finance Project1401 New York Ave, NW

Suite 800Washington, DC 20005www.financeproject.org

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE ARRA FUNDS DRY UP?

Group discussion.


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