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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That sounds ambitious. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Some random thoughts strike me……</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I assume the community is not very large,
and thus does not have a lot of agencies serving youth. It is usually
easier to pull together fewer people rather than many.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What do you mean by “our community?”
that is, I presume there is some group that thinks this is a good
idea. Has this group actually asked “the community” 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? </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What do external funders (provincial,
federal grantors) think about unified strategies, what do rules/laws/regulations
say about crossing service area boundaries?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Do you include police/courts juvenile
justice in general as part of the youth serving entities? In the US child
protective services and the foster care system is usually administered from
outside the community through state agencies. Are these entities likely
to be part of the integrated system?</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Perhaps the most critical question is,
what is the goal of the strategy? One mechanism to convince individual
agencies to agree to merge their work and interests (and resources??) with
others is a compelling vision of what can be achieved if everyone works
together. Have providers/agencies gotten together to forge or agree upon
a compelling vision or goal toward which the united strategy would be
moving? Do you have some solid assessment evidence of the current state
of affairs for youth in the community, and how that differs from the vision and
then what is missing or not being done that needs to be done to transform the
actual situation into the ideal of the vision? If you do that, then the
individual players can see the roles they can play as part of a team to bring
the vision about. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The implicit “model” 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 concerns of all the actors when crafting the vision
and doing the planning, and 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. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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hchylist-bounces@lists.search-institute.org
[mailto:hchylist-bounces@lists.search-institute.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sue & Mike Trefry<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 15, 2009
7:27 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Mel Tremper<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Healthy Communities Healthy
Youth<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> HCHY List: Community
Youth Strategy</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Our community is looking to develop an integrated youth
strategy that would include all youth serving agencies. Does anyone have
a good model they would be willing to share?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sue Trefry</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Board Chair Jericho Youth Society (The VAULT Youth Drop-In)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cold Lake, Alberta</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Canada</span></font></p>
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