Strengthening Communities Youth Project Iowa SCY

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Strengthening Communities YouthProject Iowa SCY

• Analysis of Community Collaboration
• Brad Richardson, Ph.D.
• University of Iowa, School of Social Work
• National Resource Center for Family Centered
  Practice
• March 2005
• Brad-richardson_at_uiowa.edu 319.335.4924

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The National Resource Center for Family Centered
Practice

• Established in 1977 as a national consulting
  division of the University of Iowa School of
  Social Work
• Research, Evaluation, Technical Assistance,
  Training Organizational Development
• NRC specializes in research-supported,
  strength-based culturally competent family
  centered practice Dr. Outcomes
• Family Development Specialist Certification
  Program

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National Resource Center for Family Centered
Practice

• About NRCFCP Training Research/Evaluation
  Tech.Assistance Pubs
• Fam.Dev.Spec.Cert Cult.Comp. DMC Resource
  Center Latino Institute
• Website www.uiowa.edu/nrcfcp

Ask Doctor Outcomes
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DMC Resource Center Minority Youth and Families
Initiative

• Education Information
• Technical Assistance
• Research and Evaluation
• Annual Conference
• Minority Youth and Families Initiative (MYFI)

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Examples of OtherMultisystem Initiatives

• Education Des Moines Public Schools
• Child Welfare Recruitment Retention
  Initiative/Iowa Dept of Human Services
• Law Enforcement Iowa State Patrol Community
  Focus Groups
• Community Collaborations Urban Dreams

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• Goal 1. Develop linkages and networking
  mechanisms to facilitate identification
  assessment, referral, and treatment of youth with
  substance abuse problems and their families.

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• Goal 6. Develop and implement outreach activities
  to educate the community with the goal of leading
  to early identification.

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Community Collaboration
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Sociogram of Collaboration to Reduce DMC
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Initial (Baseline) Assessment of Collaboration
to Reduce DMC
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCY COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
JOINT CASE PLANNING
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCY COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
JOINT STAFF TRAINING
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCY COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
PROVISION OF COST EFFECTIVE SERVICES
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCY COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
COLLECT COMMON OUTCOMES DATA
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ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONCONT
RIBUTING TO EARLY INTERVENTION FOR YOUTH WITH
SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROBLEMS
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Jumping the Gap

• Research and books
• Training
• Meetings
• Pilot projects
• Test protocols

• Families getting what they need, when they need
  it
• Flexible access to community resources
• Systems Change

• Fear
• Defensiveness
• Hidden assumptions
• Formal structures
• Tyranny of habit

Adapted from John Franz, Sr. Juvenile Justice
Advisor, Natl Resource Network
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Motivationorwho should care?
Concept from Cornel West, 2000
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Must pay attention to program capacity