NASCSP 2019: Winter Training Conference State Level Strategies for Supporting the Whole Family Approach Tiffney Marley, CCAP, NCRT Director, Practice Transformation National Community Action Partnership Jeannie Chaffin, CCAP National Subject Matter Expert National Community Action Partnership and President, Jeannie Chaffin, LLC Dr. Barbara Mooney National Subject Matter Expert, National Community Action Partnership and Director, Association of Nationally Certified ROMA Trainers
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.
COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK Red, Blue, Purple States Board and Staff on All Sides of the Aisle 1000+ Agencies | 44 State Associations | 50+ State CSBG Offices| National Partners More than 15 million served We w work t together t to promote w workable solutions t that connect m more f families to opportunity
WHY?
STATE OF POVERTY The nation is finally seeing poverty rates return to levels comparable with those before the great recession. This is improvement; however, more needs to be done to ensure a thriving economic future for EVERYONE.
IT IS NOT OKAY While the poverty rate in 2016 declined to 12.7%, poverty among many subgroups is unacceptable. For example, in 2016 10.8% of non-Hispanic white children lived in poverty while 30.8% of African American children and 26.6% of Latino children were poor.
DEVELOPING A SHARED LANGUAGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF 2GEN
SERVICE INTEGRATION DEFINED • The concept of coordinating access to multiple types of services in order to empower economic stability and resiliency for customers. – aka Bundled Services
WHY? • Participants are more likely to achieve major economic success – At Central New Mexico Community College, students who received integrated/bundled services had a 61% chance of achieving a short-term economic indicator (such as receiving a scholarship or staying in school) compared with only 16% among students who did not. – Working Families Success Network. (2013) A Successful Strategy for Promoting Financial Stability. http://workingfamiliessuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/WFSN-Overview-Case-Making-Document- 101013-FINAL.pdf
WHY? • Cost Savings – At one site in Baltimore, for example, the annual cost decreased from $2,280 per client in the first year to $1,031 in the third year. – Working Families Success Network. (2013) A Successful Strategy for Promoting Financial Stability. http://workingfamiliessuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/WFSN-Overview-Case-Making- Document-101013-FINAL.pdf
WHY? • It breaks down siloes – Aspen Ascend has shown that components such as education, economic supports, social capital, and health and well-being are important alone, but are enhanced when used as a bundle of services for a whole family. – While federal and state programs are providing critical help to many low-income individuals, they often operate in silos and in isolation from one another. – Annie E. Casey Foundation. (2014) Policy Report: Creating Opportunities for Families. http://www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/aecf-CreatingOpportunityforFamilies-2014.pdf#page=3
INTEGRATED SERVICES EVOLUTION Current interest in service integration builds on a long history of learning and practice
SERVICE INTEGRATION AND 2GEN 2Gen Service Integration Prisoner Reentry
WHAT IS A 2GEN APPROACH?
A 2GEN APPROACH DEFINED • When services are integrated to meet the needs of parents and children together, efficiency is improved and outcomes are enhanced for parents, children, and families.
2GEN APPROACH CHARACTERISTICS • Family goals shared across programs. • Goals include outcomes for children, parents and family. • Alignment of a suite of services for families that respond to their unique needs across a number of domains. • Easier access to services. • High quality, intensive, intentional parent and child services at the same time.
WHY 2GEN NOW? The Need The Solution Fragmented policies and programs that Policies and programs that address the address the needs of children and needs of children and their parents parents separately leave either the child together can harness the family’s full or parent behind and dim each family’s potential and put the entire family on a chance at success. path to permanent economic security. 21 Ascend at the Aspen Institute • March 2018
WHY 2GEN/WHOLE FAMILY APPROACH? • There is a 13% return on investment in high-quality early childhood for each year of a child’s life. And a college degree doubles a parent’s income.— James Heckman, Economist • There is a $3,000 increase during the years of early childhood yields a 17 percent increase in adult earnings for those children— families with young children who have an annual income of $25,000 or less. • Brains of new parents undergo major structural changes just as babies’ brains do. • Parents with health insurance are more likely to seek care for themselves and their children. Anne Mosle, https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/
2GEN APPROACH FRAMEWORKS Ascend Two Generation Guiding Principles 1. Measure and account for outcomes for both children and their parents. 2. Engage and listen to the voices of families 3. Ensure equity. 4. Foster Innovation and evidence together. 5. Align and link systems and funding streams Source: Ascend, Guiding Principles
A 2Gen Approach Meets the Needs of Children and Parents Together.
2GEN APPROACH FRAMEWORKS Source: Ascend at the Aspen Institute, Two-Generation Playbook
2GEN APPROACH FRAMEWORKS Source: Ascend at the Aspen Institute, Two-Generation Playbook
ASCEND 2GEN THEORY OF CHANGE
2GEN IMPLEMENTATION CONTINUUM 1. 2Gen Unaware: Fragmented programs and systems due to limited understanding of the 2Gen framework. 2. 2Gen Awareness Raising: Stakeholders beginning to learn about 2Gen and engaging others to learn more. Primary activities centered on 2Gen framework education and training. 3. 2Gen Approach: Stakeholders aware of and support existing 2Gen organizations, and move on to “development” if there are any gaps. 4. 2Gen Strategy: Cross-sector stakeholders working collaboratively to align and/or coordinate programs, policies, organizations and systems to reflect the 2Gen framework and ingrain it in their mission. Primary activities centered on alignment and coordination across sectors to meet the needs of all family members.
2GEN IMPLEMENTATION CONTINUUM 5. 2Gen Pilot or Initiative: Cross-sector stakeholders working collaboratively to provide services to both children and adults simultaneously. Primary activities centered on the provision of services and the ongoing evaluation of outcomes for both parents and children, or the family as a whole. 6. 2Gen Integration: Both children and adults are being simultaneously served in multiple programs across multiple sectors. Shared public will leads to more organizations that have an underlying mission and values conducive to serving the whole family comprehensively. 7. 2Gen Accountability: Sustained understanding of the 2Gen framework; sustained development of 2Gen organizations, programs and policies; sustained alignment and/or coordination of programs, policies, and systems; sustained provision of services to children and adults simultaneously; and sustained evaluation of outcomes for both parents and children to support improved outcomes for families.
LOOKING AT THE 2GEN CONTINUUM Are cross-sector Does your Is there a sustained, stakeholders working community/state coordinated effort to collaboratively to align know about the 2Gen evaluate outcomes for and/or provide approach? families? services?
UNDERSTANDING WHOLE FAMILY APPROACH BUILDING BLOCKS
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL ASPECTS Whole Family Approach Building Blocks Building and Using Leadership Attending to Securing Organizational Funding and Other Culture and Resources Systems Aligning High Understanding Quality, System, and Intentional, Policy Change Intensive That Supports Services to Parents and Parents & Designing and Children Children Implementing Parent and Engaging with an Child Service Family Voices Equity Lens Integration
BUILDING BLOCKS: SYSTEMS LEVEL What is happening on What opportunities do Who are the the systems/policy you see? What are stakeholders? What is level pertaining the the barriers? the biggest T/A need? building block?
NATIONAL SCAN
2GEN STATE & LOCAL REACH 2Gen State and Local Momentum Ascend Network States with 2Gen strategies Annie E. Casey Foundation Head Start 2Gen sites Rural IMPACT Demonstration Sites W.K. Kellogg Foundation STEPS sites Anne Mosle, https://ascend.aspeninstitute.org/
2GEN STATE & LOCAL REACH 2Gen State and Local Momentum Ascend Network States with 2Gen strategies Annie E. Casey Foundation Head Start 2Gen sites Rural IMPACT Demonstration Sites W.K. Kellogg Foundation STEPS sites
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