Audiovisual Sponsor

The Power of Partnerships: Pennsylvania's Journey from Shared Vision to Positive

Wellness Outcomes for Children and Families

Rose Gioia Fine, Manager for Consultation and Professional DevelopmentDyan Schauer, Manager for Special Projects

Project Funding

This presentation was supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health through the State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health and the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health and Human Services.

Warm Up Question

According to the Centers for Disease Control, what percentage of children between 2 and 19 years of age is considered obese?

a. 7.5%b. 17%c. 25.7%d. 42%

Collaboration Continuum

IntegrateCollaborateCoordinateCooperateCommunicateCo-existCompete

Keystone Kids Go! Partners• Head Start State Collaboration Office• Early Childhood Education Linkage System • Office of Child Development and Early Learning • Penn State Better Kid Care• Penn State Cooperative Extension• Pennsylvania Department of Education• Pennsylvania Department of Health• Pennsylvania Family Literacy• Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network• Philadelphia Department of Public Health• Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11

National Partners

• I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IMIL)• University of North Carolina• Go NAP SACC• US Department of Agriculture• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HistoryPartners - 2003• PA Department of Health• PA Department of Education• Head Start State Collaboration Project• Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11• American Cancer Society• Nutrition Education Network • Penn State Cooperative Extension

Projects

History

2005• PA Department of Human Services• Funding through the Heinz Foundation• Renamed KEYSTONE Color Me Healthy

KEYSTONE Color Me Healthy

Keystone Kids Go! Catalog

History

2008 – Social Marketing Recommendations • (Phase 1): Conduct a formative assessment of the needs and values of early

childhood practitioners.• (Phase 2): Develop messages and strategies to engage early childhood

practitioners in improving nutrition and physical activity policies, practices, and environments within early childhood facilities.

• (Phase 3): Develop educational materials and a plan to communicate these messages and strategies to early childhood practitioners, parents, and children.

History

2009 – 2011• Pilot in 2010• Paper-based• Mini-grants• Letter of recognition• Early Childhood Education Linkage System

Self Assessment

Action Planning

Implementation

Reflection

History

2012 – CACFP Project • 200 early childhood education sites• Electronic – web-based• Mini-grants (for all participants)• Incentive mini-grants (for meeting nutrition benchmarks)• PA NAP SACC

Innovative Practices

Current Project

• CDC 1305 Grant• Pennsylvania Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for

Child Care• Implementation Partners o Penn State Better Kid Careo Early Childhood Education Linkage System

PA NAP SACC• Supports 100 licensed child care, Head

Start, early childhood education, and family child care homes

• Continuous Quality Improvement process – self-assessment, program improvement plan, professional development, and re-assessment

• Focus on policy – technical assistance from ECELS’ Childcare Health Consultants

Outcomes

Outcomes

Looking Ahead

• CoIIN Grantee – Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network• Integrating Health Standards in Early Childhood Education• Pilot the PA NAP SACC in Head Start classrooms

Building Partnerships

Collaborating agencies make a formal, sustained commitment to accomplishing a shared, clearly defined mission. Collaborative efforts can overcome such problems as fragmentation of client needs into distinct categories that ignore interrelated causes and solutions. They can make more services available or improve their accessibility and acceptability to clients”

Melaville and Blank 1993

What Makes Collaboration Work?

• Environment• Membership• Process/Structure• Communication• Vision• Resources

Mattessich and Monsey 1992

Envisioning Results

• Bring people together – get to know each other• Enhance trust• Develop a mission statement• Specify desired results

Kadel 1991; Melaville and Blank 1993; Winer and Ray 1994

Empower the Effort

• Authority, roles, commitment• Resolve conflict – have a process in place• Organize the effort – brand, structure, resources• Establish decision-making process and communication plan

Kadel 1991; National Assembly 1991; Winer and Ray 1994

Ensure Success

• Develop goals and an action plan• Change… evolve!• Assess progress• Continuously renew the effort

Melaville and Blank 1993; Winer and Ray 1994; Wynn, Merry, and Berg 1995

Endow Community

• Make the collaboration visible• Involve the community• Sustain the effort – revisit mission and goals

Kadel 1991; Winer and Ray 1994

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