INTRODUCING THE SYSTEMS PLANNING COLLECTIVE Alina Turner Principal, Turner Strategies || Co-founder & CEO HelpSeeker
2 HOW DOES THE SYSTEMS PLANNING COLLECTIVE WORK? The Collective is committed to leveraging partner strengths to support common objectives To enable communities to have access to highly qualified Systems Associates will be trained, Planners, the Collective will be supported, and expected to recruiting among Canada’s top meet Collective standards of individuals to participate as practice Associates
3 WHY IS THERE A NEED?
4 BUILDING SYSTEMS PLANNING CAPACITY Enhancing understanding, Supporting LEAD systems knowledge and ownership of planning individuals and systems planning within organizations with training communities working to and tools specific to their prevent and end homelessness unique roles Raising the planning IQ of Convening a Community any individual or of Practice to support organization with a stake in shared learning systems planning
5 REACHING HOME & SPC: BUILDING SYSTEMS PLANNING CAPACITY Federal investment to advance evidence-based solutions to homelessness using a systems planning approach by: Systems Mapping support & Training and resources to Systems Planning National technical assistance to support enhance the capacity of Experts Network to enhance communities & organizations using individuals engaged in systems community of practice and HelpSeeker.org platform. planning activities. review approaches and tools.
6 SYSTEMS PLANNING OVERVIEW • Shifting from a program-by-program to a systems approach to ending homelessness • Restructuring our approach to homelessness following the Housing First philosophy
7 COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEGUN SYSTEMS MAPPING! 1. Vancouver 2. Abbotsford 3. Edmonton 4. Calgary 5. Rural Alberta 6. Lethbridge 7. Medicine Hat 8. Red Deer 9. Prince Albert 10. Winnipeg 11. Hamilton 12. Whitehorse 13. Newfoundland
THE HOMELESSNESS PARTNERING STRATEGY AND SPC Janet Gwilliam Engagement and Partnerships Unit, Homelessness Partnering Strategy
COMMUNITY PROGRESS & PRIORITIES ACROSS CANADA Anika Mifsud Post Doctoral Fellow, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
10 PURPOSE OF COMMUNITY SYSTEMS PLANNING NEEDS ASSESSMENT • Conducted needs assessment of CAB/CEs & Housing and Social Service Stakeholders • Increasing need to engage systems and sectors beyond typical stakeholders • Other public systems have role to play! • Reaching Home recognizes need to engage public systems, private sector, and other players that can help prevent homelessness and sustained exits
11 PURPOSE OF COMMUNITY SYSTEMS PLANNING NEEDS ASSESSMENT Why CAB/CEs? • Gain perspective on local systems planning as the groups that determine local homelessness priorities and administer federal funding accordingly Why Housing and Social Service Stakeholders? • Capturing wider range of individuals not represented otherwise • Help identify perspectives on local efforts outside of CEs/CABs • Identify local strengths and gaps in efforts to address homelessness
12 WHO PARTICIPATED? • 103 surveys across Canada! • 12 intended to apply for Designation under Reaching Home • Range of expertise: advocates, housing workers, housing/social service managers, executive directors, CAB chairs, board members etc.
WHAT DOES THE DATA SAY?
14 THEME 1: VARIANCE IN STAGE/DEPTH OF PLANNING EFFORTS • While some communities are further along in coordinating efforts and systems planning • Others are just beginning to scale their homelessness system coordination or do not have a dedicated planning group • Those that have planning groups: require technical support and enhanced resources to advance work • Common challenge: having dedicated funding and staffing resources to carry work forward
15 THEME 2: SUPPORT NEEDED TO MOVE FROM SYSTEM PLANNING TO SYSTEMS PLANNING • How to do this strategically, getting buy-in, and tracking progress • How to identify roles of other systems and the need for coordination and planning between them • Those on the ground may be less aware of how their work ties in…but they can have a significant role in operationalizing a coordinated systems approach!
16 THEME 3: GREATER DIVERSITY & ALIGNMENT BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS NEEDED • Need support identifying and including right players in public systems and others outside of sector • Majority believed there was little to no engagement with: justice (55%), health (60%), child welfare (61%), and education (66%) systems • 51% acknowledged need for meaningful inclusion of more diverse voices at planning tables
17 THEME 4: DATA NEEDS ARE SIGNIFICANT • 40% of CAB/CE respondents did not have reliable real-time data • 20% of CAB/CE respondents stated community had data collection in place to assess homelessness trends locally • Even with formalized and comprehensive data collection, communities need assistance harnessing data to drive policy and systems change
18 THEME 5: CHALLENGES TO MOVE BEYOND ADDRESSING CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS • Systems planning serves as cost-effective upstream approach that responds to those experiencing risk of homelessness • Cumulative experiences of trauma increases the younger a person is when first experiencing homelessness and the longer they remain homeless • Systems need to be retooled to identify and mitigate individual risk factors for homelessness, responding with an immediate and appropriate matching of services and supports
COMMUNITY PRIORITIES
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21 IDENTIFIED INTERESTS • Advanced Systems Planning • Systems Integration • Leveraging Private Sector • Basic Systems Planning Capacity • Government Relations • Best Practices in Program Design/Operations • Building Trust • Indigenous specific content and culturally appropriate approaches • Effective peer support models
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS & POLICY DEVELOPMENT David French Director of Policy and Planning, A Way Home Canada
23 SPC SUPPORT IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Want more government • Bring government decision- engagement? makers to the table Frustrated with current level of • Determine roles and government involvement? responsibilities for government players Lack clarity in how to engage different government players? • Craft clear asks of government
24 SPC SUPPORT IN STAKEHOLDER RELATIONSHIP BUILDING • Increase systems integration • Get public systems to interface Do you want to learn how to better with the homelessness build connections with public sector systems and different orders of governments? • Align efforts between and within public systems in accordance with local priorities
25 SPC SUPPORT IN PUBLIC POLICY PROCESS • Better understand and engage with the policy Do you want to learn how to process use community efforts to inform public policy? • Take local learnings and translate them into policy ideas and options
COMING SOON FROM THE SPC!
27 MODULES PILOT: COMING MAY ‘19! • Curriculum with tools and resources to mobilize systems planning knowledge, hone skills, and take actionable steps • Mobilize systems planning knowledge on policy, planning and practice • Available to Designated/Non-Designated Communities looking to start, advance and/or improve their local systems planning work • We will need your feedback!
28 UPCOMING MODULES 1. Systems Planning 101 2. Change Management (Beginner) (Beginner) 3. Engaging Stakeholders 4. Governance Models (Advanced) (Advanced)
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