Collective Impact for Toronto Youth Core Team Meeting

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Stakeholder Engagement Sessions
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• INTRODUCTIONS

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Purpose of the Engagement Sessions

• Increase understanding of Collective Impact
• Update you on what the Collective Impact for
  Toronto Youth Initiative (CITY) has been up to
• Understand your organizational motivations,
  priorities, and ideas for narrowing our common
  agenda
• Prepare your organization to participate in the
  Collective Impact April Event, including making
  informed decisions about narrowing our common
  agenda and approving a governance model
• Gather any feedback related to planning for a
  successful April Event

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Agenda (approx. 2hrs)

• Introductions
• Collective Impact an overview
• Collective Impact for Toronto Youth (CITY) What
  weve been up to
• The Toronto Context narrowing the common agenda
• Proposed Governance Model
• April Event Making it Count!

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Activity Participant Introductions

• Please share your name and position within the
  organization
• Choose one or two additional questions to answer
  as part of your introduction
• How are you feeling today?
• What motivates you to do the work that you do?
• What is something that you have learned from a
  young person?
• What do you value about working collaboratively?
• What is something you are hoping to get out of
  this session?
• What is something that you are looking forward
  to?

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• COLLECTIVE IMPACT
• AN OVERVIEW

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Activity Reflection

• Take a moment to write down one or two key
  benefits to Collaboration.
• Share

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Video Introductions

• FSG Video What is Collective Impact
  FSG is a nonprofit consulting firm
  specializing in strategy, evaluation, and
  research.
• CITY Video Collective Impact for Toronto Youth

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What is Collective Impact?

• Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of
  important actors from different sectors to a
  common agenda for solving a specific social
  problem.
• 5 Conditions of Collective Impact
• Common agenda all participants have a shared
  vision for change
• Shared measurement systems agreement on the ways
  success will be measured and reported
• Mutually reinforcing activities activities that
  support and are coordinated with the actions of
  others
• Continuous communication regular meetings and
  communication to develop trust, collaborative
  processes, and to share success
• Backbone support team separate organization(s)
  with paid staff time to plan, manage and support
  the Collective Impact initiative

Adapted from Kania, J. Kramer, M. (2011)
Collective Impact, Standford Social Review
Winter
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What the Research Tells Us?

• Large-scale social change comes from cross-sector
  coordination rather than isolated interventions
  of individual organizations
• Greater progress could be made in alleviating
  many of our most serious and complex social
  problems if nonprofits, governments, businesses,
  and the public were united by a common agenda
• Funders see the potential of Collective Impact
  projects and are often more likely to support
  Collective Impact than choose to fund a single
  organizations initiative
• Collective Impact has demonstrated results

Adapted from Kania, J. Kramer, M. (2011)
Collective Impact, Standford Social Review
Winter
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Examples Collective Impact in Action

• StriveTogether A collective impact project in
  Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to improve
  student outcomes.
• During its first five years in Greater
  Cincinnati, Strive noted positive improvements in
  40 of the 53 educational outcomes it measured.
• http//www.strivetogether.org
• E3 Alliance E3 Alliance involves and energizes
  diverse stakeholders to build community will,
  maintain and build momentum, and drive toward
  shared commitment for higher student outcomes and
  a strong economic future in Central Texas.
• http//e3alliance.org

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Activity Reflection

• Does Collective Impact differ from your
  understanding of collaboration? If so how?
• Take a moment to write down one or two added
  benefits of Collective Impact.
• Share
• Questions about Collective Impact?

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• COLLECTIVE IMPACT
• for
• TORONTO YOUTH (CITY)
• What weve been up to

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History

• June 22, 2012 - Evergreen Brickworks
  Approximately 60 people gathered to explore the
  concept of developing a Collective Impact
  initiative related to improving outcomes for
  youth in the city of Toronto. The Collective
  Impact for Toronto Youth Core Team (Core Team)
  was formed.
• Fall Winter 2012 - The Core Team mapped their
  assets and proposed collective principles and a
  broad common agenda
• Spring Summer 2013 - The Core Team researched
  mapping projects, on-line tools and complimentary
  initiatives
• Fall Winter 2013 - The Core Team attended
  collective impact training and applied new
  knowledge to setting a framework and work plan
  for next steps.
• December 2013 - The Core Team circulated a
  Request for Proposals to hire interim back bone
  staff
• January 2014 - The Core Team hired interim
  backbone staff to re-engage stakeholders and
  drive the process for developing a shared agenda
• Winter 2014 - The Interim Backbone staff engage
  stakeholders to update them on progress to date
  and gain their input on focusing the common
  agenda and choosing a governance model
• April 28th, 2014 - Key stakeholders are invited
  to attend a Shared Agenda Setting Event and vote
  on a governance model and processes for moving
  forward

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Activity Video Review

• CITY Video Reflecting on Our Progress

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Broad Common Agenda Theory of Change

• Vision / Mission / Goals

Vision All youth in Toronto experience maximum
health, and are skilled and safe so that they can
be equal participants in our city.
Goals All youth between the ages of 13-24 the
furthest away from opportunities will
Mission We will accomplish this through
increased access to opportunities, improved
cross- sectoral coordination and the development
of shared measurement systems.
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The Broad Common Agenda
Justice System
Civic Engagement
Education/Employment
Safety
Health
Community Outcome Be respected by the youth
justice system
Community Outcome Be physically and mentally
healthy and emotionally well
Community Outcome Experience safe and caring
learning environments that support social and
academic /skills development
Community Outcome Have their voice heard and
positively impact their community
Community Outcome Have safe places in the
community where they are welcomed and supported

• Initiative Outcomes
• Improved relationships between community and
  police (police accountability)
• Better reintegration into community
• Increased diversion
• Individualized sentencing
• Knowing rights
• Not committing crimes
• Youth have greater access to programs

• Initiative Outcomes
• Enhanced access to culturally appropriate mental
  health treatment
• Be supported by positive adult relationship
• Be more physically active
• Practice healthy habits
• Experience less anxiety, depression

• Initiative Outcomes
• More youth play a leadership role in informing
  decisions that affect them
• More youth are active in addressing social issues
  in their communities

• Initiative Outcomes
• Improved educational experiences that respond to
  youth needs
• Increased high school graduation rates
• More youth find meaningful employment
• Access diverse training and apprenticeship opp.

• Initiative Outcomes
• Improved safe transportation options
• Increased safe outdoor spaces for arts, sports
  and recreation
• More youth feel safe in their communities

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Criteria for Narrowing the Broad Common Agenda

• Urgency Is there compelling need for collective
  impact in this area?
• Resources Are there existing and potential
  resources dedicated to this need/area?
• Momentum Are there existing projects,
  initiatives, or change already happening (or
  planned) for this area?
• Furthest Away/Marginalization Would a collective
  impact project in this area benefit youth the
  furthest away from supports and resources?
• Scalability Would it be possible to do a
  large-scale / cross-sectoral project in this area?

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Governance and Infrastructure
Strategic Planning
Where are we? The Four Key Phases of CI
Community Involvement
Phase IV Sustain Action and Impact
Phase II Initiate Action
Phase I Generate Ideas and Dialogue
Phase III Organize for Impact
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Components for Success
Evaluation And Improvement
Identify champions and form cross-sector group
Create infrastructure (backbone and processes)
Convene community stakeholders
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Map the landscape and use data to make case
Create common agenda (common goals and strategy)
Hold dialogue about issue, community context, and
available resources
?
Facilitate community outreach
Engage community and build public will
Facilitate community outreach specific to goal
?
Analyze baseline data to ID key issues and gaps
Establish shared metrics (indicators,
measurement, and approach)
Determine if there is consensus/urgency to move
forward
?
Resource borrowed from Innoweave materials
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Questions about CITYs work to date? Next
StepsUsing the criteria to narrow the broad
common agenda
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• THE TORONTO CONTEXT
• What does the data tell us?

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Activity Snapshot of Toronto Youth

• 1 Rank each outcome area according to the 5
  criteria. Use you own knowledge of each area
  the Snapshot Cards are there for additional info,
  but we do not expect you to read them in detail.
  Its OK if you dont finish or if your answers
  change down the road this activity is intended
  to create dialogue and a deeper understanding of
  these outcome areas.
• 2 Identify your organizations top 2 priority
  areas and potential metrics you would be
  interested in addressing
• Is your decision based on any external
  metrics/data that we should be aware of?

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Next Steps for Narrowing the Broad Common Agenda

• At the event we will present back what we found
  and highlight themes and alignment so that the
  group may choose a focused common agenda.

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• PROPOSED
• GOVERNANCE MODEL

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Proposed Governance Model
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Activity Governance Model

• As an organization, please take time to review
  the Proposed Governance Model and accompanying
  handouts prior to April
• Well be looking for input on the model in April
  so that we can move forward with a Collective
  Impact infrastructure that outlines membership,
  responsibilities, decision making..

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• MAKING IT COUNT!
• COLLECTIVE IMPACT
• FOR TORONTO YOUTH
• April 28th at The 519 Church Street Community
  Centre

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Making it Count Event Purpose

• Review data gathered from the stakeholder
  engagement sessions
• Choose the priority metric or focus that the CITY
  Clusters will attempt to impact (narrow the
  "common agenda)
• Provide input on a proposed governance model for
  CITY moving forward (including decision-making
  and membership structures)
• Determine organizations commitment to being
  involved with the CITY initiative moving forward

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Making it Count! Registration

• The Making It Count! event will be held on April
  28th at 519 Church St. It will be a full-day
  event.
• All attendees can register online at
  http//www.studentscommission.ca/city/register2014
  .php
• We hope you will have a senior decision-maker, a
  frontline worker and a youth representative
  attend the event. All attendees must
  individually register.

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Making it Count! Expectations

• In order to be well informed for meaningful
  participation and decision making, we hope that
  all attendees of the April 28th Making it Count!
  event will attend a Stakeholder Engagement
  Session.
• Between now and the April 28th, we hope that
  organizations will review the information we have
  shared and develop an organizational position on
  the following topics
• What outcome area are you most interested in
  working on through a Collective Impact approach?
• What focus/specific metric are you interested in
  moving the needle on? (Narrowing the broad common
  agenda)
• Are you committed to moving forward with this
  initiative and the proposed governance model?
  (were on board!
  / weve still got questions /we cant be
  involved at this time )

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Activity Making it Count! What do you want to
see?

• Discussion
• If you attended the Collective Impact Event in
  2012 at Brickworks Evergreen, what did you
  like/dislike?
• Do you have any recommendations for the Making it
  Count! April Event?
• What do you hope to see/experience/get out of the
  event?

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• THANK YOU!
• We know your time is valuable thanks for
  spending this time with us!
• Hope to see you April 28th at The 519!