2010 Progress Report on Community Outcomes, Indicators and Strategies
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2010 Progress Report on Community Outcomes, Indicators and Strategies • Eco ing nom ed ic ce S c • Safe e u a l S n f ns d - e S l io S e Fam u p t bl i u a l f o a ie p l t f s p e u S i c o P p i r o e t g n P • i v c n l e y u a i N s o c e d Y i o g e o • h h b r o p S • P r o o f s i t g i v n i e v i L e l p o e P y h t l a e H Montgomery County Family and Children First Council TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Chair 1 POSITIVE LIVING FOR Behind The Number SPECIAL POPULATIONS What Are the Indicators The FCFC At a Glance 2 Positive Living for Special Telling Us? 57 Results-Based Accountability™: Populations Outcome Team Report 31 Homeless Solutions Report 61 Talking About Results 4 Alcohol and Drug Abuse Child Fatality Review Task Force Report 34 Board Report 63 HEALTHY PEOPLE Help Me Grow 36 Healthy People Outcome Brother Raymond L. Fitz, Indicator Pages Team Report 7 S.M., Ph.D. Award 64 Nursing Home Population 38 Indicator Pages Interagency Collaboration 65 Employment Rate for Persons Low Birth Weight 10 Office of Family and with a Disability 39 Premature Mortality Children First 67 11 Poverty Rate for Persons Funding Activities 69 Childhood Immunizations 12 with a Disability 40 Supported Services 69 Access to Healthcare 13 Outcome Team Initiatives 69 SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE Children’s Trust Fund 70 YOUNG PEOPLE SUCCEEDING NEIGHBORHOODS Community Indicators Web Site 71 Young People Succeeding Safe Neighborhoods Outcome Team Report: Family and Children First Outcome Team Report 14 Community Initiative to Council State Duties 72 Indicator Pages Reduce Gun Violence 41 Staff and Additional Support 74 Kindergarten Readiness 17 Supportive and Engaged Family and Children Student Achievement – Neighborhoods First Council Roster 75 3rd-Grade Reading 18 Outcome Team Report: 2010 Honors and Student Achievement – Comprehensive Neighborhood Initiative Accomplishments 76 3rd-Grade Math 19 43 Data Sources 76 Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) – Indicator Pages Violent Crime 10th-Grade 20 45 Family and Children First Council Outcome Inside Graduation Rate Property Crime 46 21 Team Framework Back Cover Public School Attendance Voter Participation 47 (K – 12) 22 Teen Pregnancy 23 ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY Economic Self-Sufficiency Outcome Team Report 48 STABLE FAMILIES Stable Families Montgomery County Community- Wide Ex-Offender Reentry Outcome Team Report 24 Task Force Report 51 Indicator Pages Indicator Pages Avoiding Poverty 27 Unemployment 54 Substantiated Child Abuse 28 People Receiving Preventable Child Deaths 29 Public Assistance 55 Domestic Violence Deaths 30 Median Household Income 56 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR December 2010 on the earlier work of the Council, please see the 2008 10th I am pleased to present our 12th Anniversary Progress Report at www.fcfc.montco.org or contact the Montgomery County Office of Family annual Progress Report. The Montgomery County Family and Children First at 937-225-4695 to receive a copy and Children First Council by mail. has released a Report to the Community each year since 1998. 2010 was my final year as chair of the Council. I am very proud of the work the Council has led over the last four years. I am also thankful for the dedication of all This work began by developing our volunteers and staff who come together to share their a common framework which was knowledge and willingness to discuss these important issues endorsed by community stakeholders. and participate in recommendations to make our community Six community outcomes were established to describe a better place to live, work and grow. the attributes of a thriving and healthy community. Our success in achieving these outcomes is measured through the tracking of specifically selected indicators which are Sincerely, highlighted in this report. The movement of these indicators shows trends in Montgomery County over time. We have also been interested in how Montgomery County compares to the ten largest counties in Ohio, the state of Ohio, and Christine F. Olinsky, CFCS, AFC the nation. In short, these indicators are starting points for Miami Valley Leader and Extension Educator, Family & community conversations about how we are doing. This Consumer Sciences year many of those conversations were about the indicators themselves; as a result, we have discontinued or revised OSU Extension, Montgomery County some of them, and added some new ones. (See page 6.) Chair, Montgomery County Family and Children First Council In 2005, the work of the Council was organized around the six community outcomes. We appointed Champions to lead Outcome Teams to analyze the data; identify strengths, weaknesses, gaps and needs in the community; and recommend strategies to create improvement. In this year’s report you will find updates, authored by each of our Outcome Teams, outlining their work and initiatives that are underway. If you would like more information 1 FCFC 2010 Progress Report This Report is part of an ongoing community conversation about our efforts to promote the well-being of Montgomery County’s children, families, and adults and to make Montgomery County a better place to live. On pages 4 – 5 we explain that we start by asking two questions—“Where do we want to be?” and “Where are we?”—and then we connect those two questions with a third one, “What will it take to get there?” THE FCFC AT A GLANCE Here, at a glance, are our answers to those questions. Healthy People The work of the Healthcare Safety Net Task Force has led to the creation Where do we want to be? Our answer is in our set of Vision of Montgomery County Care, a pilot program that provides a cost-effective Statements, one for the FCFC (on the primary care medical home for the uninsured, and has reinforced the back cover) and one for each of the six importance of collaboration and implementation of the Greater Dayton Area desired community outcomes. (See the Health Information Network (GDAHIN), one of the largest collaborating health information exchange networks in the nation. (See page 7.) first page of each section of theReport devoted to an outcome.) The Low Birth Weight Registry released a set of eight recommendations for Where are we? prevention and intervention services that will decrease the rate of babies born Our answers are in the indicator data. at low birth weight in Montgomery County. (See page 8.) The FCFC is currently tracking 24 GetUp Montgomery County partnered with the Dayton Dragons and the Cities indicators—for ten of them the historical of Vandalia and Centerville to promote healthy lifestyles and continue the battle trend is in the desired direction and for against childhood obesity. (See page 9.) six of them the historical trend is flat. See the indicator data throughout the Report, and the summary on the next Young People Succeeding page. In the tables, data that are new ReadySetSoar, Montgomery County’s early care and education initiative, since last year’s Report are highlighted influenced an 18 percent increase in the number of early care and education in green; data that are revised are centers participating in Ohio’s voluntary quality rating system, Step Up To highlighted in yellow. Quality. (See page 14.) Our What will it take to get there? A resource directory has been created listing resources available to young answers come from our Outcome people ages 16-24 who are homeless, aging out of foster care, involved with Teams and from other Task Forces and the criminal/juvenile justice system, and those with special needs including committees. They have all been busy disabilities to assist them in the transition to adulthood. (See page 15.) and productive in 2010. Here, at a glance, are some highlights. Fast Forward Center has been designated a model program with “Strong Evidence of Effectiveness” by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network and has been consulted about how to replicate this successful initiative in other communities. (See page 15.) Stable Families The Stable Families Outcome Team learned through a review of evidence-based research how fathers factor significantly in the development and future success of their children. (See page 24.) Approximately 735,000 children in Ohio and over 40,000 in Montgomery County are affected by the absence of their biological father. (See page 26.) During the first quarter of 2010, copies of guidelines for investigating elder abuse were distributed to all law enforcement agencies in Montgomery County and many human services organizations. (See page 26.) 2 FCFC 2010 Progress Report Positive Living for Special Populations The PLSP Team introduces new indicators which are more inclusive of the broader community (rather than mainly system-specific measures that have been reported in past years). (See pages 39 and 40.) The Montgomery County Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Task Force developed a county-wide strategic plan to address FASD issues. The plan establishes strategies at each of the five critical points along the FASD continuum. (See page 33.) The Montgomery County FASD Community Capacity Building Project began providing the community with the necessary tools to implement prevention and intervention services to address the issue of prenatal exposure to alcohol. (See page 33.) Safe and Supportive Neighborhoods The TOTS (Taking Off To Success) program to boost kindergarten readiness was launched in the Edison and Ruskin Neighborhoods, part of the FCFC’s Comprehensive Neighborhood Initiative. (See page 43.) The Community Initiative to Reduce Gun Violence (CIRGV) in Montgomery County is making significant progress after two years.