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Aligning for Better Results

Meagan Darrow, TOGETHER!

TOGETHER!

Mission: To advance the health and well-being of all young people. Vision: All young people are supported, healthy, safe and valued. Values:

• Equity
• Mobilization
• Systems Change

http://www.communitiesthatcare.net/

Child and family success takes us all working together

Solving today's complex health and social issues effectively and equitably is beyond the purview of any one agency, organization, or discipline. Working cross-sectorally represents a key opportunity for communities to create significant, sustainable improvements in health and equity

• utcomes.
• Prevention Institute, 2015

The Community Schools Model

Using schools as hubs, community schools bring educators, families, and community partners together to offer a range of

• pportunities, supports,

and services to children, youth, their families and communities.

• Coalition for Community Schools

Components: Health and social support Community Engagement & Development Family Engagement Youth Development College, Career and Citizenship Mentoring Tutoring

Frameworks for Collaboration – Shared Language and Understanding

Other important models: Integrated Student Supports Risk and Protective Factors Public Health Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)

Collective Impact Model

What does it look like?

ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES ACTIONS

Shared vision and goal Actionable Data Aligned community services within school Integrated into District Plan 20% case management 80% service coordination Community Schools Managers

Vision – Goals - Measurements

SHORT TERM MEASURES

• Daily class attendance
• Discipline referrals
• Number of students identified “at-risk”
• 3rd grade SBAC
• 9th grade failure
• Healthy Youth Survey measures
• Project outputs

* All evaluated by special population

LONG TERM IMPACT

Close the opportunity gap to ensure all Tumwater students graduate on-time and attain post-secondary credential.

Tumwater Community Schools Offerings

One-on-one Case Management for Students

• Full-time staff placed in school – works full

year, through holidays and summer – co-hired

• Works with Student Support Teams to identify

students and interventions

• Serves high-needs tier 2 & 3 students and

families with wrap-around services

• Check & Connect, student needs assessment,

Community Resource Center, attendance work, college & career

• Works in tandem with school district’s other

student support services Systems Coordination & Partnerships

• Community Schools Advisory Team
• Leverage partnerships with other non-profits,
• rganizations, businesses, service groups,

faith-based groups and individuals to meet needs of student and families

• Aligns partners and programs to better meet

mutual goals

• Uses Multi-Tiered System of Supports to map

and align partners

• Leverage resources like grants and in-kind

support – reporting and tracking

Accomplishments TSD 2014-2017

• 7 Community Resource Centers

created

• In fall 2014, 15.8% of the TSD

Middle and High School student bodies were identified as intensive

• r strategic need. In May 2016 that

percent decreased to 9.8%.

• 75% of classes showed an increase

in students with passing grades in the 2015-16 school year compared to 2014-15

• Free physical and immunization

clinics – serving 200 + students each year

• 74% of school staff surveyed report

they have more resources for students (2017)

• Expanded summer opportunities

through partnership

Sample Braided Funding Model - TSD

TOGETHER! $10,000 Tumwater School District $80,000 Tumwater Rotary $7,500 Federal McKinney Vento Grant $17,000 Title 1 D $10,000 Community Investment Partnership $34,000 TOTAL $158,500

TSD, $80,000.00 , 51% Tumwater Rotary, $7,500.00 , 5% CIP, $34,000.00 , 21% Fed Mckinney Vento, $17,000.00 , 11% TOGETHER!, $10,000.00 , 6% Title 1 D, $10,000 , 6%

2016-17 COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FUNDING

2017-18 Plans

• Possible leveraging of $100,000-$200,000 of support
• Integration and expansion of extended day programming with

partners

• Mentoring – Elementary School students & 9th graders
• Mobile Community Resource Center
• Implementation of a universal needs assessment

Questions – Comments – Ideas

Meagan Darrow, MPA, CHES, CPP Deputy Director TOGETHER! Mdarrow@ThurstonTOGETHER.org 360.493.2230 ext. 103

For more information:

National Center for Community Schools - http://www.nccs.org/ Coalition for Community Schools – www.communityschools.org Tumwater Community Schools – https://watogether.org/What-We-Do/Community-Schools