Action Steps & Indicators

1. Data:

   create a page on the website that links to useful sources of data; survey CYFS members for their data needs; identify members with analysts on staff who might help others acquire skills; hold Data Day spring 09 that highlights sources of data, identifies skills needed to use it effectively & offers training (# agencies that complete survey re. their needs for data, # that use the CYFS data page to navigate to various sources of data, # that attend Data Day, # that evaluate DD favourably)



2. Best practices:

   create space on CYFS website for sharing best practices re. clients’ basic needs, use BNTG to collect innovative examples from their agency and one other agency; draft a CYFS Children’s Rights Charter (# agencies with policies and practices that specifically address basic needs as part of or the major thrust of their programs --e.g. offer transportation, utility assistance, child care, emergency food or shelter, clothing, financial assistance; # agencies whose boards sign on to the Charter; whether Simcoe County Council endorses Charter)



3. Other anti-poverty organizations:

   reach out to e.g. United Way, Barrie Community Health Centre, North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN, Alliance to End Homelessness, Health Unit etc. to determine how we can help each other serve children, youth and families better (# agencies that take an active role with the Coalition; # collaborative groups where Coalition staff or co chairs participate actively; # agencies identified that advocate or have connections to provincial or federal poverty reduction/advocacy organizations; enhanced understanding of how other organizations measure success (e.g. EDI, Social Determinants of Health, Canadian Index of Wellbeing, Developmental Assets, Healthy Schools)

1. Help create coordinated access points with comparable standards, shared resources where appropriate, and clear understanding of how to help clients navigate different service pathways

• identify major access point providers and compare characteristics (e.g. # of calls, kinds of inquiries, reports and documentation, standards based service)
• explore value of sharing some resources (e.g. database of services, after hours coverage, multi lingual response, training materials)
• explore interest in developing common standards and protocols for effective information and referral into the service delivery system
• explore opportunities for joint training
• identify more minor access point providers and begin to determine their needs
• develop a series of navigation maps that can help access point providers understand and communicate the service pathways for children youth and families
• identify places in the interface between access point providers and service providers where enhanced communication, training or protocol development are needed

                - major access points identified and described;
                - resource sharing agreements developed;
                - access points with shared standards and protocols;
                - joint training events;
                - minor access points identified;
                - navigation maps developed and shared with access point providers;
                - protocols, training and communication pieces developed to help with interface with service providers.

2. Help ensure streamlined assessments

3. Encourage team-based service delivery

4. Identify and begin to help alleviate barriers to access

 

1. Create an inventory of best practices in mainstream organizations that are Coalition members, using existing data where possible

- organizations w/policies & resources devoted to Francophone, Aboriginal and minority needs;
- service providers able to work in French;
- service providers who have taken Native Way training;
- participants in cultural sensitivity or anti-oppression training;
- organization boards w/policy statements re diversity, hiring & budgets to support;
- providers co-delivering programs w/Francophone & Aboriginal providers;
- Francophones & Aboriginals in leadership positions in mainstream organizations;
- Francophones & Aboriginals actively involved in new & enhanced Coalition programs;
- agencies that ensure appropriate Francophone and Aboriginal representation prior to project implementation via Planning Table;
- initiatives that involve diverse groups in a co-planning setting, not through separate streams of funding/planning.

 

2. Identify additional capacity requirements among Francophone and Aboriginal organizations that might be met by Coalition projects

- Francophone and Aboriginal organizations that have adequate resources to participate in Coalition activities;
- additional needs where a Coalition member could be a useful partner and bring $ or in kind resources;
- new initiatives undertaken among Coalition members in response to identified needs.

 

3. Identify minority groups in Simcoe County whose needs may not be currently met and bring forward to next planning cycle for consideration

- of significant or growing ethnic minorities in the County)

 

Outcome
Top 3 Priority Goals