1. HFTC Collaborative Council Strategic Plan 2008-2012 Update

2. 2 HFTCCC's Core Purpose “The Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Council (HFTCCC) brings together leaders to create and sustain a citywide network that empowers families and communities to improve their quality of life.”

3. 3 HFTC Collaborative Council’s 2008-20012 Strategic Priorities Timeline For Significant Progress or Accomplished Strategic PriorityYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5 Building More Effective Policy Advocacy Better Leveraging “Best Practice” Behaviors Maximizing Efforts to Outcomes Opportunities Increasing Fundraising Diversification Enhanced PR/Brand Building Creating More Uniform Quality Control Standards Developing More Standardized Models of Service Delivery Establishing Group/Individual Member Performance Accountability Standards Building Next Generation of Leaders (at all community levels) Increasing Community Outreach and Grassroots Organizing

4. 4 In Preparation Received board approval for strategic plan. Made presentations to Collaboratives when requested. Restructured board committee structure to reflect strategic priorities. Added some of our strategic priorities to our CFSA proposal. Made sure key people at each individual Collaborative are brought up to date with current progress

5. 5 HFTC Collaborative Council Planning Champions Strategic Priority Committee Responsibility Co-ChampionsStaff SupportPriority Timeline Building More Effective Policy Advocacy Executive Committee Eugene Kinlow Alberto Figueroa-Garcia Richard Flintrop Years 1-2 (Accomplished April/May 2009) Better Leveraging “Best Practice” Behaviors Program & Evaluation Committee Thomas GoreNicole Gilbert Years 1-2 (Accomplished April/May 2009) Maximizing Efforts to Outcomes Opportunities Program & Evaluation Committee Thomas GoreSpencer Wilder Years 1-2 (Accomplished April/May 2009) Building Next Generation of Leaders (at all community levels) Executive Committee Alberto Figueroa-Garcia Eugene Kinlow Jacquelyn Henry Years 1-5 (Significant Progress by April/May 2009; Accomplished April/May 2012)

6. 6 Strategic Priority: Building More Effective Policy Advocacy Years 1 & 2 StrategiesStatus Create Office of Policy & Planning at Council level We promoted Richard to Director of Policy and Planning and employed Susie Cambria Identify an overarching advocacy agenda, e.g., ending Foster Care Select 3-5 key focus areas Create a plan for each focus area We have developed an advocacy agenda that was submitted to the board. We do not have a plan yet for each focus area. Track that targeted legislation is being passed favorably Current legislation being tracked is pending legislation for Collaboratives to recognized as CFSA’s front end. Identify and target list of top 10 opinion makers Update environmental assessment when indicated. We interviewed opinion makers and used that info for the scan. We updated our scan in October and developed seven discussion groups that have made additional recommendations for strategies to be tracked within our plan around: communication, making the table bigger, City Council, Mayoral Initiatives, Funding Diversity, Public Catalyst, and how to remain reformers,. Identify transformation necessary at each individual Collaborative to support agenda Have not begun to meet individually with Collaboratives.

7. 7 Strategic Priority: Better Leveraging Best Practice Behaviors Years 1 & 2 StrategiesStatus Complete Practice Standards Manual.Target date is December 1, 2008. Identify and target high incident areas with best practices and track progress. Coordinating the Targeted Communities Project: Three Collaboratives have identified an area. Joint application to PREVENT with CFSA. Team attending in November. We are working with OCTO on our ability to map areas. Develop methodology to determine “needs assessment” of our communities; establish service demand metrics. Methodology has not been decided. Identify 3-5 service related best practices and implement across all Collaboratives. Program and Evaluation Committee has begun meeting with the Directors in October to determine current best practices. Work in progress. Leverage existing best practices work being done with CFSA; Pull together existing efforts, e.g. logic model, practice model. Developed joint practice model based on our model for Partnership for Community- based services. Family Stabilization work is best practice in prevention work. Using the same practice with new Father’s Court and System of Care Initiatives.

8. 8 Strategic Priority: Maximizing Efforts to Outcomes Opportunities Years 1 & 2 StrategiesStatus Evaluate performance of individual Collaboratives in a non- threatening way; goal is to “level the playing field…” Council staff met with each Collaborative Director to discuss performance of staff and data collection activities and made recommendations. Established monthly submission of submitting data quality reports and established additional training and TA. Council staff provide written notifications whenever changes are made to the system. Changes are being submitted in writing. Council staff provided monthly updates – “ETO newsletter”This has not been implemented. Determine how we can use data to “tell our story” and in what venues. We have begun using our data for City Council testimonies. Program and Evaluation Committee has been meeting to discuss this topic. Recently established a communication discussion group to engage a company to assist us with this. Expand outcome tracking and evaluation strategies.We issued an RFP for a prospective study; however, estimates were too high. The Program and Evaluation committee is working on this. Has new co-chair. Staff ensuring that all programs have measurable deliverables.

9. 9 Strategic Priority: Building Next Generation of Leaders (at all community levels) Years 1 & 2 StrategiesStatus Inform Collaboratives of succession planning informationDistributed information to each Collaborative on succession planning. Vice Chair and ED participated in succession planning training. Council’s Deputy Director is in Executive Director training with the Roundtable. Find models of succession planning for communities.Have not explored models to date.

10. 10 HFTC Collaborative Council Planning Champions (Cont’d) Strategic Priority Committee Responsibility Co-ChampionsStaff SupportPriority Timeline Increasing Fundraising Diversification (mentioned in October scan for strategies) TBD Years 2-3 (Accomplished April/May 2010) Enhanced PR/Brand Building (mentioned in October scan for strategies) TBD Years 2-3 (Accomplished April/May 2010) Creating More Uniform Quality Control Standards TBD Years 2-3 (Accomplished April/May 2010) Developing More Standardized Models of Service Delivery TBD Years 3-5 (Accomplished April/May 2012) Establishing Group/Individual Member Performance Accountability Standards TBD Years 3-5 (Accomplished April/May 2012) Increasing Community Outreach and Grassroots Organizing TBD Years 3-5 (Accomplished April/May 2012)