HCHY List: Community Youth Strategy

[Curt Barr]

We are also looking to develop a strategic plan in our county of 3 towns, 6=
 denominations of churches, 4 school systems, and other youth serving enter=
prises such as 4-H, YMCA, Boys and Girl Scouts, etc. Please include me in y=
our e-mails.
Dr. Curt Barr, R.P.
Assistant Dean for Alumni Relations
School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Creighton University Medical Cent=
er
2500 California Plaza, Hixson-Lied Science Build.G-47Omaha NE 68178 Phone (=
402) 280-3148, Fax (402) 280-5738 e-mail curtbarr at hotmail.com =

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Subject: RE: HCHY List: Community Youth StrategyDate: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:0=
0:51 -0500From: mtremper at jbsinternational.comCC: hchylist at lists.search-inst=
itute.orgTo: curtbarr at hotmail.com



That sounds ambitious.  =

Some random thoughts strike me=85=85
I assume the community is not very large, and thus does not have a lot of a=
gencies serving youth.  It is usually easier to pull together fewer people =
rather than many.
What do you mean by =93our community?=94   that is, I presume there is some=
 group that thinks this is a good idea.  Has this group actually asked =93t=
he community=94 what they would like to see?  Are key players in the youth =
serving arena part of the group trying to pull these things together or is =
the group mostly made up of interested citizens?  =

What do external funders (provincial, federal grantors) think about unified=
 strategies, what do rules/laws/regulations say about crossing service area=
 boundaries?
Do you include police/courts juvenile justice in general as part of the you=
th serving entities?  In the US child protective services and the foster ca=
re system is usually administered from outside the community through state =
agencies.  Are these entities likely to be part of the integrated system?
 =

Perhaps the most critical question is, what is the goal of the strategy?  O=
ne mechanism to convince individual agencies to agree to merge their work a=
nd interests (and resources??) with others is a compelling vision of what c=
an be achieved if everyone works together.  Have providers/agencies gotten =
together to forge or agree upon a compelling vision or goal toward which th=
e united strategy would be moving?  Do you have some solid assessment evide=
nce of the current state of affairs for youth in the community, and how tha=
t differs from the vision and then what is missing or not being done that n=
eeds to be done to transform the actual situation into the ideal of the vis=
ion?  If you do that, then the individual players can see the roles they ca=
n play as part of a team to bring the vision about.  =

 =

The implicit =93model=94 in my ramblings above has elements of the ability =
to envision a compelling end state, to use data and solid planning methods =
to figure out how to achieve the vision, being open and inclusive of the co=
ncerns of all the actors when crafting the vision and doing the planning, a=
nd paying attention to the resources and structural supports needed to make=
 the whole thing possible.  The details of the strategy your community will=
 develop will emerge from your visioning and planning processes.    =





From: hchylist-bounces at lists.search-institute.org [mailto:hchylist-bounces@=
lists.search-institute.org] On Behalf Of Sue & Mike TrefrySent: Thursday, J=
anuary 15, 2009 7:27 PMTo: Mel TremperCc: Healthy Communities Healthy Youth=
Subject: HCHY List: Community Youth Strategy
 =


Our community is looking to develop an integrated youth strategy that would=
 include all youth serving agencies.  Does anyone have a good model they wo=
uld be willing to share?

 =


Sue Trefry

Board Chair Jericho Youth Society (The VAULT Youth Drop-In)

Cold Lake, Alberta

Canada
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