Early Childhood
Colorado
Partnership
Six Word Essay for Colorado’s Children:
“Improving children’s lives improves our future.”
23 June, 2014
Welcome & Introductions
Steering Committee Chairs:
Sarah Davidon, Mary Martin, Janine Pryor
Partnership Overview:
http://prezi.com/bggl0hgysvz7/?utm_campaign=sh
are&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Meeting Objectives:
 Discuss the Early Childhood Colorado Partnership
Evaluation Plan.
 Deepen Action Team work, aligned with the 2014
Focus Map.
 Build understanding of Action Team work and
identify cross-team opportunities.
2014 Focus Map
2014 Focus Map
VISION: All children are valued, healthy and thriving.
FOCUS: Buffer toxic stress in the early years.
Results
Children live in safe, stable and supportive families and communities.
Children's health and development are on track.
Families are engaged as leaders in their child's healthy development & education.
Children of all races and income levels are successful learners
Build awareness, deepen
understanding
Promote best, promising
practices
Build, strengthen, moblize
partnerships
Develop resources
Promote policy change
Increase understanding ,
awareness of adversities, toxic
stress in the early years.
Integrate toxic stress research
into professional, program,
system work.
Build community partnerships
to address toxic stress in the
early years.
Support resource
development to align with the
science about adversities in
the early years.
Develop a "1000 Day"
advocay agenda that highlights
prevention of adversities in
the early years.
Build awareness of Colorado's
Early Learning and
Development Guidelines.
Promote child and family
approaches to buffer the
impact of toxic stress.
Conduct intentional outreach
to and engagement of Family
Leaders.
Develop and disseminate
social marketing tools and
strategies related to buffering
the impact of toxic stress.
Disseminate information on
Family Partnerships.
Embed CO's Early Learning and
Development Guidelines in
existing infrastructure.
Provide partnership-building,
networking and learning
opportunties via the Early
Childhood Colorado
Partnership.
Develop supplementary
resources and tools for
Colorado's Early Learning and
Development Guidelines.
Deepen understanding of
what it means to apply an
equity lens to existing early
childhood work.
Integrate Family Partnerships
and the Strengthening
Families framework into
relevant initiatives.
For more information about the EC Colorado Partnership, visit www.earlychildhoodcolorado.org or email earlychildhood@civiccanopy.org .
Couple Reminders
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Collective Commitment Progress Update update progress in posters
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Today’s Padlet link
http://padlet.com/jodi/ECCPJune23

July 16th Progress & Possibilities: The Raising of
America from 2:00 – 4:45 p.m.
University of Colorado Denver, 1380 Lawrence
Street, Denver – 2nd floor terrace
Early Childhood Colorado
Partnership Evaluation Plan
 Mandy
Bakulski, Evaluation Advisory Team
and Steering Committee
 Jim
Adams Berger, OMNI Institute
ECCP Evaluation Logic Model
Process Measures
Inputs
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Partnership
Collective Impact
And Systems Efforts
Shared Agenda
Continuous
Communication
Backbone Efforts
Shared Measurement
System
Other Systems and
Supports
Partners Efforts
Partnership level
Individual partner efforts
Action Group efforts
Mutually reinforcing
activities
Knowledge, Theory and
Research On Toxic Stress
and Related Issues
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Effective collaboration
Effective CI systems and
efforts
Effective leadership
groups
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State level actions
Individual local actions
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Frequency, type,
reach
Action Group activities
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Use to inform actions
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Intermediate Outcomes
Outcomes
Strengthened CI systems
and processes
Improved Partnership
strategies
Effective measurement
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Improved programs,
practices, policies
Improved systems
alignment
Action Group outcomes
Increased alignment
across strategies
Learning and
Strategic Change
1st Year Measurement Summary
Focus
Areas
Partnership Processes
and Systems
Collective Impact
implementation
Steering Committee
Effectiveness
Measurement
Areas
Partnership Collaboration Tool
 Collaboration effectiveness
Feedback on system effectiveness
 Shared Measurement System
 Padlet
 Website
 Etc.
 Common Agenda
 Continuous Communication
 Mutually Reinforcing Activities
 Shared Measurement System
Steering Committee Assessment
 Steering Committee process evaluation
 Backbone organization* (determined through the
survey*)
Utility of Developmental Evaluation efforts (rated by
Steering Committee)
Measurement
Approach
Partnership
Collaboration Tool
Partnership
Collaboration tool
Steering Committee
Process Quality
1st Year Measurement Summary
Focus
Areas
Partner Engagement
Partnership
intermediate outcomes
Action Group efforts
and milestone
achievement
Action Group
Intermediate
Outcomes
Partnership strategic
change
Measurement
Areas
Various measures on:
 Relationship to the Partnership
 Level of engagement
 Perceptions of the role of the Partnership
Diffusion and frequency of efforts
 Ongoing collection of individual efforts
(workshops, trainings, dissemination efforts)
 Self-ratings of changes to and improvements in
policies, programs and practices related to adverse
childhood experience and toxic stress
 Degree of plan specification
 Progress on implementation – based on milestone
specification
 Plan modifications
TBD by Action Teams
Partnership changes based on Developmental Evaluation
data
Measurement
Approach
Partnership
Collaboration Tool
Shared Management
System
Action Group plans
and Shared
Management Systems
Action Group plans
and Shared
Management Systems
Developmental
evaluation summaries
ECCP Resources
 Background
ECCP docs:
www.earlychildhoodcolorado.org
 Toolkits on Adversities/Toxic Stress and
Infants/Toddlers :
http://bit.ly/ECSummit2014
 Meetings, Action Teams:
http://padlet.com/jodi/ECCPmasterpage
http://padlet.com/jodi/ECCPJune23
Padlet 101 Webinar – July 1st at 9:30am
** earlychildhood@civiccanopy.org **
Action Groups:
Develop a
Speakers Bureau
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Develop learning
modules from Summit
Videoclips
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Scope out social
marketing purpose
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Identify network next steps related to ELDGs
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Promote protective factors that strengthen families
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Identify approaches that buffer the impact of toxic
stress
Today in Action Teams:
 Introductions;
confirm “shepherd”
 Review initial plans, framing, work
 Identify someone to download template,
capture conversation, upload onto padlet
 Update Action Team roster
 Dive deeper into next steps
 Identify any support needed
 Prepare to share plans and next steps
Action Team Report Out
Share highlights of:
 Purpose
 Concrete next steps
 Anticipated timeline
Meeting Evaluation:
http://padlet.com/jodi/june23eval