COMMENTS from World Cafe

PLANNING 2017-2018 SESSION

COMMENTS from World Cafe

DATA REVIEWED:

Child Outcomes Service plans based on new performance standards

PIR Results School Census data

Parent Surveys Internal Community Assessments by staff

MHSA data Various state and national concept pieces on future

Current Budget Current Program Options

CHANGES TO GOALS/OBJECTIVES

do we need a goal/objective for the following?

Community Assessment

·  Transportation still a struggle rural and city sites:

o  Add more advocacy for ride share

o  Explore more coordination with Rolling Hills, esp. in rural sites

o  Explore funding opportunities in each area

·  Language barrier – interpreters needed in classrooms and start of year

·  Community need for child care

o  How can HS expand/add child care Birth to 5

o  Could address transportation need

o  More innovative

·  Increase points on selection criteria for high ACE scores

·  How to get Feds to change income guidelines

Self-Assessment

·  Other or additional transportation options

·  Revisit the selection criteria

·  Action under Goal 2: more community dialogue about income guidelines and sharing resources. Less competition – true community approach

·  Are we serving most at-risk now – scholarships

·  Explore blended funding! Begin where under-enrolled.

·  Eliminate duplicate information/documentation: hard copy and entering into ChildPlus

Outcomes

·  Incorporate new performance standards

·  Add a buddy nite to bring anyone who may benefit from the program- applications to new families

·  Social media as an improved outlet to reach/communicate with parents- upcoming events – parent education – resources. Privacy concerns addressed by “closed group.” Winona State might have student help

SELF-ASSESSMENT FINDINGS

Community Assessment

·  Need more interpreters: explore new technology with distinction for children versus parents needs, in classroom v. parent communications

·  Measuring results of Goal 1: remember that we will see more referrals as staff and families increase knowledge/skills. In time we would reduce

·  Need better data on follow-up on referrals from other agencies?

·  How do we support families just over income? Sliding fees. Semcac has other programs that have fee-based services we could learn from

·  Input from MHPs to include ACEs on application to give children more priority

·  Birth-5 program once family is in, stay in.

·  Sliding fee for younger siblings if family becomes over-income. This could grow the program.

·  What sets us apart from other centers? What do parents want/look for? Transportation

·  Reach out to community service organizations for volunteers

·  Look into Semcac facebook community for general or individual sites? What could we post? Privacy lasws?

·  Parent curriculum/short & sweet/did you know?

Self-Assessment

·  Lack of transportation, ex. 7 families chose not to enroll in HS x 2

·  Maybe going into June to get HS hours instead of Fridays

·  Other ways to encourage families to recruit

·  Having a 5 hour day to eliminate rest time for non-sleepers

·  Some counties don’t have before/after care

·  Parenting curriculum

·  Available grants need to be tailored to HS needs

·  Letting families know earlier they are enrolled x 2

·  Insurance – offer to employees in June or August so employees are not penalized for not having no insurance past 60 days. Federal govt penalized individuals for having no insurance if more than 60 days. Hard to find affordable insurance short term

·  Sliding fee for over-income families

·  Can we individualized services (program options): some centers do every other Friday and some do not? Some centers go into June and some not. If as a program we do every other Friday, how do we maintain a quality program. We limited planning time for staff. Is it cheaper not to pay insurance/program costs for month of June vs. hiring more quality staff to cover planning time for teachers. Staff need planning time to maintain high quality program and limiting to 2 Fridays makes it hard. When you lose quality staff, you lose all the training you provided to them. It takes time and money to train staff.

·  Some classrooms not adequately staffed. Every class should have a teacher and FEP, not sharing and FEP between 2 classes

Outcomes

·  Market our differences, how we are unique.

·  Serve families/have wrap around services – health-medical-dental, etc.

·  Can we make application process quicker? Additional staff in August?

·  Supporting the family as a whole end result that kids are ready ready and will be successful in school

·  Parent training – follow through with medical/health appointments

·  Better attendance when the name was different for parent meetings – keep it fun (i.e. ice cream social)

·  Better tracking child outcomes for EHS in TSGold

TRAINING NEEDS

Self-Assessment

·  Selecting a parental curriculum and training on it (Incredible Years, Nurturing Parents, Common Sense Parenting, Parenting STEP)

·  Zoning and hazard mapping

·  On behaviors that are above and beyond normal child behaviors for parents and teaching staff

·  Benefits of Nap time

·  Improve education on insurance benefits

·  Overview of Pathways grants eligibility

·  Include all staff in training: CLASS, mental health, education. All staff are teachers

Community Assessment

·  Continue to build staff skills with DLLs, esp. specific to Mower county to tailor more to staff affected/concerned

Outcomes

·  Math

·  Continue to support individual site reflective practice / education for all staff

·  More parent ed on need to follow through with education and health needs (med appts)

·  Outcomes in parent curriculum – how do we deliver so that its receptive and makes an impact

LARGE GROUP RECAP OF FINDINGS

·  No proposed changes to Goals or objectives.

·  Families just over 100% Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG)

·  Transportation on-going concern

·  Gaps in applying to acceptance

·  Serve at-risk, not just income based

·  Policy change needed re FPG: Semcac and HS have voices

·  Social safety nets can be punitive: parents make tough decisions re jobs v. services (no longer eligible if make just too much). Lost opportunities to improve families

·  Promote self-sufficiency to grow own food which helps pocketbook

·  Help parents to be determined problem solvers

·  Parents pay sliding fee – agency has models. Brings things to think about such as having to pay taxes, CCAP (requires 8 hour day), etc.

·  We have effective professional development and parent engagement systems, yet, turnover hurs when long-term staff leave.

·  Involve/build paras

Program Options

·  HB: harder to schedule visits with working families

·  EHS-CCP: must be true center-based. Family providers are not

·  3 year olds – priority yet, limited class size due to perf. standards

·  Staff need trained on age eligibility: until Kindergarten eligible (1 Sept cut-off) could do 3 years with HS

·  Do more for EHS income eligible families who then are over income when applying for HS. Keep them enrolled.

·  Staff need trained: build-up HB when parents apply

·  New perf. standards clarify more emphasis to serve children not eligible for IEPs