Success

Dennis Culhane and John Fantuzzo, University of Pennsylvania, 2011

EQUITY

RELEVANCY

CAPACITY

Achieving a Common Purpose in the Real World of Public Services

Problems

Top-down hierarchies

Silo-ed information

Lack of partnerships

Kids Integrated Data System Model

Key Partners:

City of Philadelphia

School District of Philadelphia

University of Pennsylvania

William Penn Foundation

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THE WHOLE PERSON

Disabilities 

Child Welfare

Health Care

Education

Housing

Public Safety

Justice

Mental Health

Integrating Data across Government Services

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Integrated Data for KIDS Research

Department of Human Services

	Child Maltreatment

	Out-of-home Placement

Office of Supportive Housing

	Homeless shelter stays

Public Health

	Birth Records

	TANF receipt

	Lead exposure

Behavioral Health Services

	Diagnosis, Therapy,

	Prescription medications

School District

Achievement

Attendance

Classroom Behavior

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Risk factors included in study are continually monitored by city agencies & school district.

They were provided by 4 separate agencies & SDP – demonstrates capacity of KIDS.

Source: National Center for Children in Poverty

Health, Mental Health, and Nutrition

Family Support

Education

Special Needs, 

Data &Services

Data &Services

Data &Services

Data &Services

KIDS

OPERATIONS

John Fantuzzo & Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania, ISP, 6/8/11

Executive Leadership

Researchers

Stakeholders &Practitioners

[Governing Board]

[Research Advisory Board]

[Project Advisory Teams]

  Research Director

  Data Base Administrators

  Administrative Assistant

KIDS

Why is it of value to both educators & health and social service providers?

Cross-Agency

Collaboration

Improve 

Quality

Actionable Intelligence

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Child

Classroom

Family

School

Community

Making Essential Connections within Educationand across Education & Health and Human Services

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What can you do with the information that this type of system can provide?

Early School Success

Out of School Youth

Homelessness &School Mobility

Critical Transitions & Transactions

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#1

EPIC

Evidence-base Program for Integrated Curricula

CLOSING THE GAP: Useful Information & Interventions 

Identify & lessen risks to Poor Educational Outcomes

Improve the QUALITY of Education & Human Services for Children & Families

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Key Findings/Actions

Identified risk and protective factors associated with success

Obtained support to scale up across larger share of district pre-K programs

Working with multi-agency stakeholders to impact mutable factors (homelessness, lead exposure, maltreatment, maternal education)

Out of School Youth

Out of School Youth

Key Findings/Actions

Identified “early warning” indicators for high school drop out (early middle school math achievement problems, truancy)

Developed earlier intervention targets

Created typology of drop-outs

Developed programs targeting subpopulations of drop-outs (older learners, youth with foster care experience)

Unique effect of Homelessness 

on Academic and Behavioral Adjustment

Findings/Action

School mobility and homelessness account for significant proportions of achievement gap

School-level effects are in some cases stronger than individual-level effects

Identified problem with McKinney compliance at shelters

Developing alternative stabilization models for homeless families

School Mobility

Homelessness Rates by School

Average = 9%

How do you develop and sustain such a system?

GET Legal Issues

INTEGRATE Science

SHARE

Improve

USE Ethics

Executive

Leadership

Practitioners

Stakeholders

Researchers

Data Analysts

IDS

Benefit Cost

Intelligence

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This represents the typical way scientist-practitioners proceed . . . We gather information using various assessment procedures, so we start with our measures, our independent and dependent variables . . . Then based on the information we obtain from these measures, we form and conduct interventions, and then we test the interventions’ impact . . . This model recognizes the incredible level of partnership necessary to serve as the substantial base for all of the above activities . . . However, establishing partnerships is not sufficient  . . we need to build resource capacity through partnership in systems for all of the above . . . This is the key issue upon which quality work rests and is the element most often missing from our efforts. . . 

Current ISP Network

New York

Los Angeles

Chicago

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Cleveland

Michigan

Florida

South Carolina

Washington State 

Questions

John Fantuzzo, University of Pennsylvania, 4/13/11

KIDS

Questions

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