Up Your Game: Tools to Improve Services and Program Performance
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Up Your Game: Tools to Improve Services and Program Performance
“Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses and individuals in the private sector.”
- President Barack Obama, Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, January, 2009
Purpose
• Introduce cciToolsforFeds.org
• Provide context, background
• Give you an overview of the tool
• Answer and ask questions
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What is it?
• Library of online resources for feds who fund and support CCIs
• CCIs = systems change centered initiative
• How to plan, manage, sustain CCI
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Who should use it?• Designed primarily for fed policy, program
staff to improve practice• Also of use to:
– TA providers– Site staff– Evaluators– Private funders– Community groups
The Impetus for the ToolkitThe Impetus for the Toolkit
cciToolsforFeds.org How was it developed?
• Team identified criteria, selected CCIs • 40+ interviews of associated people• Drafted guidelines, convened forum• Created web site, recruited beta testers• Revamped in accord with feedback
cciTools = Work in Progress
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When should it be used?
• When you need or want to: – Write a solicitation, plan a budget, select and
orient new sites – Construct cross-agency funding and other
partnerships – Develop TA systems to support CCIs– Create appropriate evaluations for CCIs– Adapt tools others have used
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How can I learn more?
• Explore CCIToolsforFeds.org • Tour the web site by clicking on guided
introduction (webi nar done 10/22)• Request a briefing/training • Contact us
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What do we want?
• Explore CCIToolsforFeds.org • Use the materials in your work• Send us comments & esp. tools and resources • Request a briefing• Incorporate into staff training & procedures• Share info with anyone who can benefit from site
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Who do I contact?Contact the CFE Resource Center:
Robin Delany-Shabazz, [email protected], 202/307-9963Francesca Stern, [email protected], 202/616-3551
CCI Toolkit Interagency Work Group:Sarah Potter, HHS/ASPE Suzanne LeMenestrel, USDA
Winnie Reed, DOJ/NIJ Trina Anglin, HHS/HRSA
Curtis Porter, HHS/ACF LeBretia White, HHS/ACF
Maria Queen, HUD Richard Morris, DOL/ETA
Sharon Burton, ED Lois Nembhard, CNS
Robin Delany-Shabazz, DOJ/OJJDP
Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
andFindYouthInfo.gov
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Overview
Overview of the Working Group Working Group activities
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Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs: Membership
Corporation for National and Community Service Office of National Drug Control Policy U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Education U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Chair) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development* U.S. Department of Justice (Vice-Chair) U.S. Department of Labor U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Department of Transportation
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Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs: Activities
Create and support a Federal Interagency Website on Youth
Identify and disseminate effective strategies and practices that support youth
Promote enhanced collaboration at the Federal, State, and local level
Develop an overarching strategic plan for federal youth policy
** From Executive Order 13459, “Improving the Coordination and Effectiveness of Youth Programs,” and FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act
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Federal Interagency Website on Youth: FindYouthInfo.gov
Maps– Find federal youth-focused resources
Evidence based program directory– Find evidence-based programs to address risk and
protective factors
Other features– Strategic Plan for Youth – Input Opportunity– Collaboration Center, Funding Information Center, and Data– Youth Topics– Spotlight Articles and Announcements
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This feature – Map My Community – enables you to enter your zip code and find federally funded programs in
your area – so you can identify resources and gaps.
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You can search by zip code or address. This search yields federal programs in New York City.
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You can also filter the data so that you are just searching by topic (housing, community development) or by funding agency.
Find out more by clicking on the blue pins above and you’ll see a call out box with more information about each award.
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You can zoom in on the map to see programs, or retrieve a text only version. You can view this online or
save to Excel for future use.
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The Evidence-Based Program Directory helps you find
programs that address risk and protective factors in young
people. You can search directly from the home page.
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You can search by risk factor, or protective factor, or browse all evidence-based programs in the directory. Here, we are searching by the
risk factor, “Economic deprivation, poverty, residence in a disadvantaged neighborhood” to
find programs that address this issue.
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The result? Thirty one programs have been evaluated on this risk
factor.
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If you click on a program, like the Parent Child Development Center, you will learn about the intervention and the evaluation conducted. You will also see the name of a person you
can contact to learn more about bringing this program to your community.
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The Working Group is assembling input to prepare a Strategic
Plan for Youth.
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You can enter your ideas here. We are seeking input from a variety of federal and nonfederal resources,
including youth.
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From the home page, you also see:
• the Collaboration Center, which provides real-world technical assistance to help partnerships;
• the Funding Information Center, with links to Grants.gov and guidance for using Grants.gov; and
• Federal youth data
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The Youth Topics section discusses what we know about youth topics of interest across federal agencies
You can map just PYD programs here from the
PYD topic page.
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The latest federal news on youth is shared through our Announcements section. And Spotlights (above) go
more in depth into what federal programs are doing
to support youth.
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Other Activities:Promote Enhanced Collaboration
The Working Group also works to – identify and engage organizations that can
play a role in improving the coordination and effectiveness of programs serving youth
– identify and promote initiatives and activities that merit strong interagency collaboration
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Other Activities:Promote Enhanced Collaboration
Working Group is intentional about involving representatives of interagency collaborations that focus on youth issues (youth employment, violence and delinquency, mentoring, others)
Working Group encourages information-sharing about interagency collaborations through presentations and publications
Working Group promotes interagency collaborations through FindYouthInfo.gov
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Other Activities:
Strategic Plan on Federal Youth Policy
Required by FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act Solicit input on youth programs and policies from
young people, State Children’s Cabinet directors, non-profit organizations
Develop an overarching strategic plan for Federal youth policy
Prepare recommendations to improve coordination, effectiveness, and efficiency of programs affecting youth
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Thank you!
For more information: Martha Moorehouse
Sarah Potter– [email protected]
Sarah Oberlander– [email protected]