Community Assessments - Do you know where your children are?

Head Start Management Institute 2012

Dr. Betsy Morris, Planning for Sustainable Communities, Berkeley, CA

 

9am Welcome & Introductions

Review Agenda

Purpose & Goals

·      Review what’s required and what’s valuable about the CA

·      Practice using the US Census website

·      Walk away with essential data for your Service Area

·      Have some fun learning with each other

·      Tips for avoiding data overload!

·      Learn how to create a successful roadmap

 

Form Teams

Check-In:  

1.     What is your role in completing the HS community assessment?

2.    How are you feeling about the job? Confident? Bored? Worried?

 

Community Assessment Overview

·      Uses/Monitoring Protocols

·      Value and Strategic Uses

·      Required Elements

o   Sources

o   Best practices

o   Involving Stakeholders

·      Sample CAs, Tables of Contents , Tables and Maps

·      Participatory Research

 

Invite folks to share; Pass around Community Assessments in the room (if any)

 

9:40 – TEAMS Present your CA

1.     How did your agency’s last community assessment go?

2.     What elements worked well?

3.     What parts could be improved or made more useful this time?

4.     What  gift or skill do you feel you can best bring to the process?

5.     What are your biggest questions?  -- share on this

 

9:50  Getting the Eligiblity Numbers Fast -- Using the Census website

 

Review HANDOUT – How to Guide

 

 

 

 

10:00  LAB TIME

Exercise 1 -  # of income eligible children in your Service Area?

Exercise 2 – mapping by census and block tract

Exercise 3 – generating community profiles data sheets

Any surprises?

 

What’s going on in your community that could be affecting the # of eligible children and your agency’s ability to enroll them?  How can you find out?  More census analysis? Other methods?

 

BREAK

 

10:30 Report Backs - What did you learn about your service area?

Problem sharing; issues; questions; advice

 

HOT LINKS & OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES

Review other online resources?  (see handout)

Scorecards;  Health,  Disability Data,  School Data 

Transportation

Nutrition

 

SUCCESS STRATEGIES  CREATING A ROADMAP

 

Exercise:  Team/Group – For each element create a roadmap of best practices, sources, and partners. (1-2 elements depending on # of teams) ID which special skills or gifts apply.   DRAW

 

11:15  REPORT BACK ON ROADMAPS AND SPECIAL SKILLS

DRAW/POST team map

Whole group Comments and additions (post-its)

 

OTHER TOPICS as time permits

Parent Survey  * Using 211 and other sites  * Other

 

11: 30 Open Q&A

Group Discussion  - Trouble shooting your agency issues

Sharing Other Resources and Links

 

11: 45 - CHECKOUT –

Summarize key points - Your Biggest takeaways

Kinetic Mapping – how do you feel now?

One word goodbye’s

In-class Evaluation
PICK UP QUIZ when you turn in evaluation!!! 

Copyright © 2012, Planning for Sustainable Communities, Berkeley, CA