Report for Returning Members

Please try to complete the entire form. Returning Partners are asked to include narrative summaries in the fields provided for ALL six topic areas (5 Levers for Change plus Strengthening Families in ECE) and to provide as many qualitative data elements as possible. Affiliate states are asked to provide quantitative data elements and narrative summaries in the appropriate topic areas to describe work that is currently taking place. If your state is not working in one of these areas, please leave the fields blank or indicate that they are not applicable (NA).

For descriptions of data elements and suggestions for sources, consult the Guidance for Data Tracking document.

State Strengthening Families Lead

Phone

Fax

Strengthening Families Lead Agency

Mailing Address (where you can receive packages)

Strengthening Families in Early Care and Education Programs

Number of center-based, licensed ECE programs in the state:
	enter year	enter number	enter source
Pre-K
Headstart
Children 0-5
TOTAL

Number of slots within those centers:
	enter year	enter number	enter source
Pre-K
Headstart
Children 0-5
TOTAL

Family child care homes in the state:
Number of registered or lecensed family child care homes in the state
Number of slots within registered or licensed family child care homes in the state
Number of family child care homes completeing the self assessment and creating action plans
Centers completing the self assessment and creating action plans:
Number of centers completing
Enrollment at centers completing the self assessment
Number of families with child(ren) enrolled at these centers
Number of early care and education programs reached through education and outreach efforts:

Narrative

Please describe the strategies your state is (1) currently using and (2) planning to use to embed Strengthening Families and a Protective Factors approach into early care and education. Examples include but are not limited to:

Convening regional cohorts of ECE programs to complete the Self Assessment and share results and lessons learned
Including information about the Self Assessment in materials distributed to ECE providers
Working with local agencies to provide technical assistance to ECE center staff linked to the Self Assessment

How did you gather and calculate the data provided above in this section?

Parent Partnerships

Family representatives attending state leadership team meetings (if you have had fewer than 12 leadership meetings in the past year, please leave the remaining rows blank)












Number of parent leaders engaged in your state's SF efforts (you do not need to use every row)







Are any parent leaders serving in multiple roles listed here (are they counted twice)?
Number of active parent organizations engaged in SF efforts
Hours of leadership training and support offered to family representatives

Resources (cash and dollar value of in-kind resources) dedicated to building parent partnerships (enter number; do not enter dollar sign):
Training
Stipend
Other resources to support parent engagement (child care, transportation, etc.)
TOTAL

Narrative

Please describe the strategies your state (1) is using or (2) planning to use to build meaningful parent partnerships in your work. Examples include but are not limited to:

Supporting Parent or Community Cafés
Funding leadership training for parents participating on the state leadership team
Working to build community or state network(s) of parent leaders

How did you gather and calculate the data provided above in this section?

Professional Development

Please list these institutions:
Number of workers receiving training in the Strengthening Families approach, including Protective Factors and Program Strategies:
Early Childhood
Home visitors/Family Support
Child Welfare
Other
Number of person-hours of professional development activities in Strengthening Families, including:
Trainings
Conference Presentations
Peer Educations Opportunities
Online Learning and Distance Learning Opportunities
Number of ECE programs with one or more staff members trained in SF
Number of community colleges, colleges and universities integrating SF Protective Factors into their social work, ECE, or psychology courses:

Narrative:

Please describe the strategies your state (1) is using and (2) plans to use to embed Strengthening Families and a Protective Factors approach into professional development for family- and child-serving professionals. Some examples of this include but are not limited to:

Developing original material to be added to existing trainings or to be used as a stand-alone training
Training child welfare, early care and education, and/or mandated reporter trainers on Strengthening Families and the Protective Factors
Using the Training Marketplace on the Strengthening Families website to find and review trainings

How did you gather and calculate the data provided above in this section?

Early Childhood - Child Welfare Linkages

Number of children 0-5 in foster care in 2007
Number of children 0-5 in foster care enrolled in ECE program in 2007
Number of children 0-5 in foster care in 2008
Number of children 0-5 in foster care enrolled in ECE program in 2008
Number of child welfare workers receiving training in SF
Number of foster parents receiving SF training

Narrative:

Please describe the strategies your state (1) is using or (2) plans to use to embed Strengthening Families and a Protective Factors approach into the work of the child welfare system, or to build linkages between the child welfare and early childhood systems. Some examples include but are not limited to:

Offering cross-trainings for child welfare and early care and education personnel
Ensuring that young children in foster care are enrolled in quality early care and education programs
Training foster parents on Strengthening Families and the Protective Factors
Embedding the Protective Factors into child welfare practice tools, such as intake assessments

How did you gather and calculate the data provided above in this section?

Early Childhood Systems Integration

Number of organizations, agencies, and initiatives represented on the leadership team
Number of organizations, agencies, and initiatives integrating the Protective Factors into their work

Narrative:

Please describe strategies your state (1) is using or (2) plans to use to increase collaboration and coordination among child- and family-serving systems around Strengthening Families and a Protective Factors approach to work with children and families. Some examples include but are not limited to:

Aligning funding from the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems grant to the Protective Factors
Using the Protective Factors as a framework for aligning the goals of multiple child- and family-serving agencies and organizations

How did you gather and calculate the data provided above in this section?

Infrastructure Changes

Please use the spaces below to describe each infrastructure change that has been made. Examples of infrastructure changes include but are not limited to:

MOUs between agencies to support collaboration around building Protective Factors
Infusion of Strengthening Families concepts into Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)
Building requirements associated with building Protective Factors into contracts

Please use one box per infrastructure change. You do not need to use all of the spaces provided.

Number of individuals impacted by infrastructure change implemented
Number of families impacted by infrastructure change implemented
Number of programs impacted by infrastructure change implemented

Number of individuals impacted by infrastructure change implemented
Number of families impacted by infrastructure change implemented
Number of programs impacted by infrastructure change implemented

Number of individuals impacted by infrastructure change implemented
Number of families impacted by infrastructure change implemented
Number of programs impacted by infrastructure change implemented

How did you gather and calculate the data provided above in this section?

How can CSSP or its partner organizations best support your state's Strengthening Families efforts?

Attach up to 3 supporting files that will help us understand your Strengthening Families work: