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 2012 Next Steps
KELC Partner Webinar
Tuesday January 17th 

Thank you for joining the webinar! If you missed it you can click on the presentation below and access the replay by calling in.

PRESENTATION

REPLAY 1-800-868-1837 *61585353#
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Other Resources:
--2012 Partnership Agreement
--Meeting Sign-in Sheet
--Child Care Aware ITRP Overview
--Child Care Aware KQRIS Overview
--KHSA Overview
--KCSL Healthy Families Overview
--KAIMH Overview
--KPATA Overview
--KDEC Overview
--Strengthening Families Resources
--Protective Factors Surveys

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KELC Technical Assistance for
Collaborative Community Work

Dr. Chris Smith, the evaluator for KELC, developed a collaboration model used by KELC based on three separate collaboration measures or tools. Click here for the Community Collaboration Assessment Tool.

Levels of Collaboration Scale

Frey, B.B., Lohmeier, J.H., Lee, S.W., and Tollefson, N.  (2006). Measuring collaboration among grant partners. American Journal of Evaluation, 27(3), 383-392).

Measures:

• Awareness and information sharing
• Professional roles
• Communication
• Decision Making

Partnership Assessment Scale

Hardy, B., Hudson, B. and Waddington E. (2000).  What makes a Good Partnership? A Partnership Assessment Tool. Leeds: Nuffield Institute for Health.

Based on Six Principles of Measurement:

1. Recognize and accept the need for partnership
2. Develop clarity and realism of purpose
3. Ensure commitment and ownership
4. Develop and maintain trust
5. Create clear and robust partnership arrangements
6. Monitor, Measure, and Learn

Focus of Services Scale

Adapted from the Pyramid Model of Partnership from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL), Office of Head Start and the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Measures:

• Effective Workforce
• Nurturing and Responsive Relationships
• High Quality Supportive Environments
• Targeted Social/Emotional Supports

Each of the 12 KELC county groups used these three collaborative measuring surveys.  The results were compiled in 2009 by Dr. Smith and have been shared with the county groups for their use in strengthening their collaborative work in meeting the educational and service needs of young children and their famiies.  The surveys may be used again by the groups to measure progress in collaboration.