Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 414 - DEPARTMENT OF EARLY LEARNING AND CARE › Division 900 - EARLY LEARNING HUBS › Section 414-900-0020 - Selection Criteria for Hub Contracts

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The Early Learning Council may fund no more than seven Hub
				Demonstration Projects in fiscal year 2013-2014. The ELC will release a request
				for applications for Hubs in August 2013. A Hub may provide services to a
				geographic area or a community of interest. The ELC and Hubs, through either
				communities of geography or communities of interest, will serve no fewer than
				50,000 at risk children in year one.
(1) The ELC will award Hub Demonstration
			 Project contracts based on the degree to which any individual Hub demonstrates
			 the following application criteria:
(a)
			 Representation of the five functional sectors: health care services, human and
			 social services, education services, early childhood services, and business in
			 its governance
(b) A defined
			 service area and cross-sector coordination, including identifying a target
			 population and high quality services for at-risk children and their
			 families,
(c) Accountability for
			 outcomes and return on investment, including improving the results for at-risk
			 children by the ability to identify, evaluate and implement coordinated
			 strategies for ensuring that a child is ready to succeed at school,
(d) Ability to coordinate the provision of
			 early learning services across five functional sectors to the community served
			 by the Hub through a governance model or community advisory body that was
			 transparently selected and includes:
(A)
			 Formal partnership agreements from the following sectors: early childhood
			 education, K-12 education, coordinated care organizations and other public
			 health entities, human services, the private sector and local governments
			 within the proposed service area.
(B) Ability of governance body to initiate
			 audits, recommend terms of contracts for service providers and provide outcome
			 reports to the public and to the ELC.
(e) Ability to demonstrate that parents of
			 at-risk children have meaningfully participated in the creation of Hub
			 strategies and plans and will serve an ongoing role as part of the entity's
			 governing structure and will be the foundation of Hub service design,
			 reflecting the principle that children are best raised and supported in
			 families.
(f) Commitment and
			 ability to serve at least 40% of the population of at-risk children in the
			 entity's proposed service area by the end of year 2.
(g) Commitment to collect and track system
			 and client level data using a unique identifier for each child
			 served.
(h) Demonstration of
			 business acumen and operational stability, including:
(A) Use of coordinated and transparent
			 budgeting for all providers funded directly by the Hub,
(B) Documentation of previous financial
			 audits and cash reserves, as well as liability insurance as required by state
			 law,
(C) Ability to provide a match
			 of 25% of funds distributed to the entity by the ELC,
(D) Ability to keep administrative overhead
			 at or below 15% across the Early Learning System, and
(E) Ability to provide monthly financial
			 reports to Department of Early Learning and Care staff.
(F) Ability to identify with which federal,
			 state or other funding streams if the lead applicant provides direct services
			 to children covered by the Hub.
(i) Identify
			 any financial, role or function conflict of interest
(ii) Provide a plan for how those conflicts
			 will be managed
(iii) Provide
			 evidence of financial and functional separation and risk independence of the
			 lead applicant's direct service delivery function from the Hub
			 function.