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The tension of Turf: Making It Work for the Coalition

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The nature of coalition work as well as other alliances between organizations contains inherent challenges, including the issue of turf. This document helps groups frame turf in positive ways that can support the accomplishment of group goals.

Smart Beginnings Community Assessment Checklist

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This document, developed by the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation for SMART BEGINNINGS local entities is an example of a project management and organizing tool for conducting a community assessment. This was designed to assist local leaders in completing the community assessment process. The checklist can serve as both a self-monitoring tool and a tool to assess and document your progress by providing space to add notes about your activities, progress, and barriers encountered.

Prenatal-to-Three Outcomes Framework Data Guidebook

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The purpose of the Data Guidebook is to provide additional information on each of the outcomes and indicators the NCIT and its partners identified (Healthy Beginnings, Supported Families, and Quality Care and Learning) as important for supporting families and children from prenatal to three. This resource is intended to help support communities interested in tracking outcomes for children by providing recommendations and guidance on how to collect and assess indicator data.

Assessing Infants and Toddlers In Your Area: Use Data to Create a Community Profile

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The purpose of this tool is to help you hone in on the unique characteristics, strengths, and needs of infants, toddlers, and families in your community. It includes questions designed to help you focus on creating healthy starts at birth, support families with infants and toddlers, and increase access to high-quality infant and toddler child care.

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: Action Learning Guides

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, provides data, evidence, guidance, and examples to build awareness of the multiple factors that influence health and support community leaders working to improve health and increase health equity. The Action Learning Guides offer concrete tools to understand and use data to address inequities in health.

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: Work Together

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, works to improve health outcomes for all and to close the health disparities between those with the most and least opportunities for good health. The purpose of this resource is to support building and sustaining partnerships that reflect the diversity of communities to collaboratively implement strategies that result in meaningful change.

Zero to Three: A Community Framework for Early Childhood Collaboration Developed by the Model Convening Project

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

The Community Framework for Early Childhood Collaboration, developed by the Model Convening Project provides an example of communities working together with multiple home visiting partners. This site also offers a series of guides and briefs (such as Public Policy Advocacy for Early Childhood and Advancing Racial Equity in Early Childhood Systems), that can be used to deepen trust, engagement, and synergy between and among all partners in a community working to support young children and families. The Story Bank also highlights detailed accounts from communities on implementing various aspects of the framework, including families’ perspectives on early childhood collaboration.

National Coalition for Infants and Toddlers: Execute the Work

Planning Tool June 7, 2022

This resource from the National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers provides useful questions to ask to help your community assess readiness for collective action as well as tools to use and examples in practice.