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October 2018

was a community engagement and strategic planning process designed to create a vision and action plan to make Detroit an equitable, world-class city for our youngest residents and their families.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation and The Kresge Foundation co-chaired and supported Hope Starts Here to bring together an array of stakeholders to co-design a plan that works for

• Detroiters. Supported by IFF, a nonprofit

community development finance institution that has been tapped to serve as project administrator, the national consulting firm FSG leads project management of the planning

• process. EarlyWorks, a Detroit-based strategy

and engagement firm supports the communications and community engagement processes.

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To building greater understanding; For guiding and strengthening the vision; To garner community buy-in and support; For clearly communicating the importance

• f early childhood development;

In order to enable and empower continuous communication and transparency; To shaping the public conversation about early childhood.

COMMUNITY VOIC ICE is

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and many others, to ensure their voices and expertise are fundamental building blocks of the vision and action plan. listens to PARENTS and CAREGIVERS Civic, Government and Business LEADERS Child Education and Health EXPERTS

Stewardship Board

STRATEGY TEAMS

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FACILITATORS + EXPERT PARTNERS

DATA EQUITY POLICY

Workforce Family Well-being System Financing Facility Quality Philanthropy

What did they do?

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Workforce

Healthy physical and socio-emotional development for children and families Retain proper quantity of facilities for early childhood programs in areas accessible to all families Oversee that all programs provide quality, evidence and research-based services Increase sustainability of early childhood services and address key financing challenges Ensure mission/strategy alignment of Foundations funding early childhood efforts in Detroit

Each STRATEGY TEAM focused on specific areas in the early childhood system:

STRATEGY TEAMS

FOCUS

Recruit, train, retain, and adequately compensate

Family Well-being Facility Quality Systems Financing Philanthropy

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MEASURING

OUR GOAL WAS TO REACH 50,000+ DETROITERS through a variety of methods, so that they can be heard throughout the Hope Starts Here planning process.

ENGAGE

Strategy Teams Stewardship Board Community Partners

LISTEN

Community Surveys Listening Sessions Community Forums

SHARE

Social Media Public Events News Articles Press Coverage

Hope Starts Here

• Engage 160 family leaders and organizational

representatives co-designing the plan

• Listen - 5,700 Detroiter’s contributing ideas to the plan
• Share - 50,000+ people engaging with HSH planning

process through ongoing communications COMMUNITY REACH:

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Ensure diverse collaboration across systems

Source: DCDC Ecosystem Map

Identified partners using the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC) ecosystem map that includes over 200 organizations

Snapshot of DCDC’s Ecosystem Map*: These organizations serve families in a range of areas:

Families and Caregivers Family and Caregiver Support Mental and Physical Health Community Development Early Learning and Development Workforce Development

*Please see the Appendix Bibliography for detail

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PURP PURPOSE OSEFUL FULLY Y BR BROAD AD + INCL + INCLUSIV USIVE

To ensure ALL types of families are reached, we regard PARENT to mean not only “fathers and mothers of youth,” but also any of the following (plus

• thers):

Parents who home school Foster parents Guardian and adopted parents Married and single parents Grandparents (traditional and new model) Parents of young children and youth Parents with children in center, home-based and unlicensed care Parents who have English as a second (or third) language Parents in the corrections or protective services system (incarceration, abuse, etc.) Parents of children with special needs and challenging behavior Caregivers in the system who understand how it works (or don’t) Parents who believe in ECE and those that don’t

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Overview of Draft Hope Starts Here Strategies

Healthy and Thriving Children and Families

• Support the first

1000 days

• Develop a

comprehensive multigenerational screening, referral and response system

Accessible High Quality Early Childhood Experiences

• Develop common

competencies and professional development

• pportunities
• Attract, better compensate, and

retain members of the ECE workforce

• Align key components of ECE

and the K-3 systems

Coordinate Early Childhood Systems

• Create a central governance and coordinating mechanism for early childhood in Detroit
• Increase data sharing and create an integrated data system
• Incorporate and prioritize an early childhood focus across systems

Family Leadership and Community Engagement

• Reinforce family leadership in

supporting child development

• Build a team of parent

advocates and champions to promote early childhood

• Reimagine processes,

programs, and systems to be more responsive to family needs

Safe and Inspiring Learning Environments

• Improve facilities

quality throughout Detroit

• Align, raise, and

better leverage existing resources for facilities

1st Draft - Overview of Strategies

Focus Area Priorities Cross-Cutting Priorities Advocate for Child and Family Centered Policies

• Develop and advocate for a comprehensive early childhood policy platform that supports the Hope Starts Here priorities,

including policy recommendations that:

• Support family economic security
• Promote an early childhood focus in adjacent systems
• Enhance coordination of early childhood systems
• Raise resources for early childhood programs and services

Policy Platform*

*Please note that the Policy Platform is not detailed in this appendix. As the contents of the policy platform will reflect a synthesis of the policy implications of the other priority areas, the platform will be developed once the strategies are final

Align and Increase Resources for Early Childhood Experiences

• Increase state and local funding for early childhood through new funding mechanisms
• Ensure that foundations and other donors supporting early childhood efforts are aligned and well coordinated

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Empathy Maps

Empathy maps are a collection of thoughts, feelings, and emotions experienced by a person, group of people or, in this case, a particular community profile.

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Life Course Mapping

Life course map—a visual representation of the goals, activities, and emotions of a community profile as they experienced a key life moment.

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Prototypes

A prototype in design thinking is a visual or physical representation of a concept or idea.

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Story Boards

Storyboard—a scene-by-scene illustration of an event or series of actions

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Test Planning

Test Planning is a design tool used to help teams develop concrete action items to test, learn and improve their prototype ideas further before implementation.

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Final Prototypes

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Final Prototype cont.

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MAKING OUR VISION A REALITY

The Hope Starts Here

FRAMEWORK

6 IMPERATIVES:

what we must do to make Detroit a city that puts our young children and families first.

15 STRATEGIES:

recommended actions to achieve that vision by 2027.

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