# Presentation: 543065

## Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Improving the Lives of Youth and Families through Systems Change

A TOOLKIT FOR FEDERAL MANAGERS

***Improving the Lives of Youth and Families through Systems Change***
**A TOOLKIT FOR FEDERAL MANAGERS**

## Recent emphasis on federal support of CCIs 

**Need for federal agencies to better structure CCI supports**
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**Expectation that grantees develop partnerships and collaborations **
**Need to strengthen and increase fed agency partnering re: CCIs  **
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**Interest in professionalizing the work around systems change**
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**Our focus: ****	****Technical assistance, funding, evaluation, and ****	****	****	****federal partnerships**
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**The result: ****	****A web-based toolkit for federal managers**
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## Trina Anglin*, HHS			Ron Ashford*, HUD

**Trina Anglin*, **HHS			**Ron Ashford*, **HUD
**Catherine Davis, **ED			**Reynaldo Decerega, **DOL
**Robin Delany-Shabazz*, **DOJ		**John Foster-Bey, **fmr. CNS
**Sonia Klukas, **fmr. DOJ		**Suzanne LeMenestrel*, **USDA
**Martha Moorehouse, **HHS		**Richard Morris*, **DOL
**Curtis Porter*, **HHS			**Sarah Potter*, **HHS
**Maria Queen*, **HUD			**Gary Quinn, **HHS
**Winnie Reed*, **DOJ			**Pamela Rodriguez, **Practitioner
**Lisa Trivits, **HHS			**Ramona Williams, **HHS
**Paul Kesner***, ED
- **Denotes Current Work Team*

## Meg Holmberg

**Zachary Miller**
**Margaret Smariga**
**Francesca Stern**
**Susan Yeres**

## Background 

- Background

** **An inventory of CCIs
- An exploration of the literature about CCIs
- Individual discussions with 40 people from five CCIs — funders, site managers, TA providers, and evaluators
- A forum gathering of professionals involved with CCIs to review drafts and generate ideas

## How do we get the Toolkit into the hands of people who can benefit from it?

- How can we get new and current grant managers and COTRs to access the Toolkit and then apply it to their work?
- How do we get agencies to encourage and support the use of the guidelines and tools?

**Notes:**
As this toolkit is developed based on expert guidance from those who work with, for and in support of CCIs, we think it will prove a valuable resource.  We need to get it put into practice and test driven.  Not just test driving the web, which is necessary, but test driving APPLICATION of the principles and guidelines in program development and support.  In thinking about this, there are some Qs that come to mind:

How do we get the Toolkit into the hands of people who can benefit from it?

How can the Toolkit be used to orient new and current grant managers and COTRs?

How do we get agencies to encourage and support the use of the guidelines and tools?

We asked these Qs or variations at the forum, and of the federal workgroup and we have suggestions ranging from developing fact sheets and using them promote awareness and usage via listservs, links on agency web pages, briefings and presentations at cross-agency work groups and coordinating bodies, at staff development sessions and briefings for agency leadership to making CCI competency a part of job responsibility and build into work plans, develop associated performance measures; incent staff; get high level buy-in.  ID champions in each agency who will be the initial resource for program staff.

Suggested strategies

Fact sheets	Agency web page postings
Listserv announcements 
Presentations & briefings at meetings, staff development sessions, for leadership	
Incorporate CCI competency in work plans

So what are your reactions?  

## How should we introduce the Toolkit to new leadership? 

- How should we introduce the Toolkit to new leadership?
- What can *you* commit to do to encourage your agency to incorporate this resource and the practices it describes into your agency’s program development guidance, procedures, training?
- How else might the Coordinating Council support your efforts?

**Notes:**
Some more questions for which we’d like your answers:

How should we introduce it to new leadership? 

What can you commit to do to encourage your agency to incorporate this resource and the practices it describes into your agency’s program development guidance, procedures, training? 

How can the Coordinating Council support your efforts?

## How can we make this a living document that continually incorporates our best knowledge?

- Getting input:
- Feedback mechanisms on the website
- In your agencies
- In your workgroups

**Notes:**
Add lastly:  How can we make this a living document that continually incorporates our best knowledge?

We’ve discussed some ideas:

Getting input:
Feedback mechanisms on the website
In your agencies
In your workgroups

What else?

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