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Early Literacy Collaborations, Home Visiting Communities and Place-Based Alliance Building: Building Strategic Partnerships 2/3/2014 9am-2pm

Meeting co-convened by: HRSA, IMLS, First Book (www.firstbook.org)

Location: Institute of Museum and Library Services (www.imls.gov)

1800 M Street, NW, 9th floor

Washington, DC 20036

Goals:

Develop strategies and strategic alliances to enhance alignment and improve results across MIECHV home visiting, early language and literacy and early childhood systems at the community level.

Raise awareness and explore emergent opportunities to support young families and promote early language and literacy in high risk communities

Support social capital building cross-organizationally and for families in low income communities

Pre Work:

Create a Compendium of background materials of attendees and preparation answers to following questions:

Provide Bio sketch, picture and primary goal of agency/program (1 page)

How would you describe the current status of integration across early learning / literacy strategies, early childhood system building and home visiting efforts in local communities (1 paragraph)

What are the most meaningful metrics that your program currently captures? What metrics are you able to share externally?

Describe one aspirational goal as a result of this meeting with broad multiple stakeholders ( 1 paragraph)

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9 – 10:15am

Welcome and Organizational Overviews

Goals and ground rules

Review agenda

The three Sponsors present: Purpose of Gathering

Brief attendee introductions

Commentary: Aligning goals and strategies to support language, literacy and healthy development for young children in low income families with an eye on collective impact, and improved outcomes for at risk children and young families

10:15 – 10:30am Break

10:30am – 12pm Exemplary Initiative Highlights Insights into select community level initiatives that are effectively aligning efforts locally for positive outcomes in early language and literacy, healthy child development and home visiting among vulnerable families with children ages 0-3. Select programs will provide a stellar example of how it aligns with investments in the community and what potential next steps for greater impact exist.

12 – 12:15pm Transition to Lunch

12:15 – 12:45pm Networking Lunch

Lunch available, provided by First Book

Feel free to join an optional small group networking conversation around

Mutually reinforcing

Shared measurement systems

Continuous communication

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12:45 – 1:45pm

Linking and Leveraging for Alignment

How can public and private initiatives align and leverage the whole child movement to enhance community building?

How can alignment around MIECHV home visiting communities be leveraged to improve MIECHV’s broad benchmarks and amplify aligned efforts?

What are next steps for carrying this work forward?

1:45 – 2pm Synthesis and Closing Remarks