Cradle2Career

http://www.thinkschools.org/mobilizing-the-community/ 

An area of focus to drive action toward reaching our shared Goals.

• Eliminating Disparities in Child and Youth Success

• Linking Community and Family Supports to Child and Youth Success

• Ensuring that All Students Enter School Prepared to Learn

Indicators are measurable data points that portray current realities and allow the community to set targets for improvement.

Purpose of All Hands Raised indicators:

1. Build a sense of awareness and honesty around current outcomes and disparities.
2. Increase community’s focus and provide baseline for setting improvement targets.
3. Help guide the work of the Collaborative Work Teams.

After a rigorous review process the following indicators were selected to guide the All Hands Raised Cradle to Career Partnership for Portland and Multnomah County:

1. Low Birth Weight

2. Kindergarten Readiness

3. Kindergarten Attendance

4. Third Grade Reading

5. Sixth Grade Attendance

6. Eighth Grade Math

7. Tenth Grade On-track to Graduate

8. Disproportionate Discipline of Students of Color in Middle and High School

9. English Language Learners Annual Progress

10. On-time High School Graduation

11. Postsecondary Enrollment & Completion

12. Youth Ages 16-24 Not Enrolled in School and Not Working

 

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs052/1108849902252/archive/1109604503816.html 

1. 1. Increase capacity to advance the elimination of racial and ethnic educational disparities
2.  Skill building & leadership development for equity within relevant institutions; community engagement; ensuring organizational infrastructures are supportive of equity work
3. 2. Shift discourse to a shared strategic frame for communicating this work
4.  Analysis and critique of dominant frames around racial inequities; development of a communications strategy to build awareness and support for addressing inequities
5. 3. Shift practices at the non-policy level to improve educational design and delivery specific to eliminating the disparities
6.  Development of culturally-appropriate data and research practices to make inequities visible; addressing employment practices to ensure that staff composition of relevant institutions reflects the diversity of the community; infusion of equity language throughout institutional plans and frameworks
7. 4. Reform policy practice to advance educational equity
8.  Supporting top leadership of relevant institutions to make public commitments to eliminating disparities; diversification of decision-makers; establishment of accountability mechanisms to ensure that inequity reduction efforts are successful
9. 5. Improve policy outcomes related to educational equity
10.  Shifts in funding priorities to support disparity reduction

To learn more about this Collaborative please contact Julia Meier at juliam@nayapdx.org, 503-288-8177 ext 295, www.coalitioncommunitiescolor.org

Social Venture Partners (SVP) and the Multnomah County Commission on Children, Families & Community (CCFC) will co-convene a collaborative addressing the strategic priorities of ensuring that every student enters school prepared to learn and eliminating disparities in children and youth success. Social Venture Partners has for 10 years convened private philanthropists and selected nonprofit organizations to unleash the potential of each group. SVP has developed a strong reputation as an action-oriented foundation that brings highly qualified business and personal experience to bear on the cause. Since its inception, SVP been focused on improving life for children, youth and families at risk.

1. 1. Increased access to high quality and culturally appropriate child care which strengthens brain development and increases preparedness for kindergarten.
2. 2. Increased availability of culturally specific and responsive early learning opportunities in the community.
3. 3. Deepened engagement and investment of private individuals, businesses, and the philanthropic community for high-impact early childhood interventions.

Additional advisors include: Albina Head Start, The Collins Foundation, Knowledge Universe, Northwest Health Foundation, Schroeder Family Foundation, The Standard, and United Way of the Columbia-Willamette.

The SUN Service System Coordinating Council and Portland State University’s Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services will to co-convene a collaborative addressing the C2C priorities of "linking community and family supports to child and youth success" and "eliminating disparities in child and youth success." The focus of the collaborative is to strengthen, focus and increase the community supports for children and youth (P-20) and their families that contribute to youth academic and life success.

1. 1. Enhanced ability of schools and community partners to work strategically and collaboratively with each other to improve child and youth outcomes
2. 2. Reduction of disparities in academic outcomes for the youth of color and those living in poverty, with ultimate goal of achieving equity in outcomes
3. 3. Improved attendance, academic, developmental and behavioral outcomes for children and youth through coordination and alignment of supports across the age span.

We understand that C2C is developing a revised set of indicators and we commit to align with the finalized set. Drawing from indicators published in the initial C2C Report, our collaborative anticipates primarily targeting the indicators related to In- and Out-of-School Supports with the understanding that social and support services for children contribute significantly to school success and therefore indicators in 3 other goal areas would be correlated to our work. Those areas are: Succeeding Academically, Prepared for School and Enrolling in Post-Secondary Training or Education. In alignment with our focus on equity, our collaborative will also be looking at a reduction in disparities within each indicator.

Additional potential partners include: AKA Science, Black Parent Initiative, Community Education Partners, Ethos, Friends of the Children, Girls, Inc., IDEA (Institute for Democratic Education in America), Imago Dei, Mad Science and Open Meadow.

http://www.pdx.edu/ccf/earlychildhood 

Early Childhood System of Care

Early Childhood System of Care is defined as “A coordinated network of comprehensive services and supports that meet the overall health and developmental needs of young children in the context of their culture."-Georgetown University. At PSU’s System of Care Institute, we recognize the critical multi-disciplinary nature of supporting families and young children, and seek to foster the coordination and collaboration of all child and family-serving systems throughout all of our projects. We ground our approach in the beliefs that all families are best served in the communities in which they live, in a culturally and linguistically competent manner, and in partnership with them. Our goal is that our projects will span the range from promotion, to prevention, to early intervention.

Early Childhood Projects

• LAUNCH Grant
• Early Childhood PBIS
• Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting Grant
• Mind in the Making
• Incredible Years
• Cradle to Career: Ready for Kindergarten Collaborative
• Past projects: Wraparound Oregon & Early Childhood Capacity

Early Childhood Staff

• William Baney
• Cate Drinan
• Dan Embree
• Callie Lambarth

Resources

• Early Childhood Comprehensive System: ECComprehensiveSystem.pdf
• System Framework for Early Childhood Mental Health: System Framework.pdf

For more information about how we can assist you, please contact William Baney at 503-725-5914 or baneyw@pdx.edu.

http://strivenetwork.org/vision-roadmap 

Imagine if we were able to achieve this vision: Supporting the success of every child from cradle to career.

The impact would be tremendous. Children would thrive. A sense of hope would emerge in long struggling neighborhoods, communities, and regions.  And our economy would improve as a more skilled workforce feeds innovation and growth.

To achieve this vision we need to see education as a journey that is much more inclusive than what happens in the schoolhouse alone.  Education is a lifelong experience that begins well before a child ever sets foot in a classroom and continues long past a cap-and-gown commencement.

Strive’s Student Roadmap to Success plots the course of a student’s journey from cradle to career, with plenty of signposts along the way. This map is not just a guide for the student, but for all members of the community with an interest in seeing that students have successful journeys. It highlights specific research-based competencies and experiences, as well as key transition points where we must ensure students are on target developmentally. If they are not at these critical points, we know the potential for long-term success is greatly inhibited.