Project Overview

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Project Overview

• Early Childhood Success Program
• Turning Point of Central CA/Tulare Youth Service
  Bureau/HHSA Mental Health and TCOE Special
  Ed/TCOE Child Care
• 1,288,554 6 year project Funded by
• First 5 Tulare County
• 2000-2006

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Project Goals

• Offer a systemic approach to early behavioral
  intervention.
• To promote a comprehensive continuum of services
  including prevention and mental health promotion,
  early identification, parent education,
  behavioral intervention and triage to necessary
  clinical services.
• To improve service integration and collaboration
  between mental health providers, child care
  providers, Tulare County agencies and Community
  Colleges, and increase the capacity of child
  care providers to understand mental health
  issues.
• To develop expertise in providing integrated
  mental health services to children zero to 5
  years of age by establishing a knowledge base of
  needs, successful interventions and best
  practice.

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Description

• Collaborative Mental Health Partnership and
  Funding from First 5 Tulare County
• School Based Mental Health Behavior technicians
  worked/observed in our classrooms to support
  staff, evaluate and work one on one with children
  and with families as needed.

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Project Overview

• Classroom Expansion
• Tule River Child Development Center
• 5 Year Project--1,119,500
• 2006-2010

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California Rural Indian Health Board
Tule Tribal Council /TANF
TCOE-Child Care

• Expansion
• Year 1--136,500 at time of contract
• Year 2234,000 Due July 2006
• Year 3--241,000 Due July 2007
• Year 4-- 248,000 Due July 2008
• Year 5--260,000 Due July 2009

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Project Goals

• School Readiness
• Child Development Program enrolling children 3
  and 4 years of age or children determined not to
  be developmentally ready for Kindergarten, for an
  additional year.
• Need for service parental employment, seeking
  employment, participation in an approved
  educational program including Tribal TANF,
  incapacity of parent or qualified special need of
  the child

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Description

• Opportunity to enter into a Collaborative
  Partnership with the Tule River Tribal
  Council/TANF and California Rural Indian Health.
• Permitted full utilization of the facility to
  meet the needs of the community
• by adding a classroom.

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Tule River Child Development Center
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Project Overview

• Tulare County Indian Gaming Local Community
  Benefit Grant
• 20,000
• Eagle Mountain Casino and Tule Tribal Council
• 2006-2007

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Project Goals

• Correct drainage issues associated with new
  center site construction.
• Minimize erosion, eliminate dangerous puddles of
  water/mud, reduce the amount of run-off flowing
  behind the classrooms and kitchen onto the road
  and the home below and reduce the wear and tear
  on parking lot.
• Add non-slip material to sidewalks that become
  slick when wet or cold.

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Description

• Funding from the Eagle Mountain Casino located at
  Tule River Indian Reservation.
• TCOE has operated a child development center for
  the residents of the reservation for over 20
  years.

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Project Overview

• Early Childhood System of Service Planning Grant
• 88,767
• United Way of Tulare County/Family HealthCare
  Network
• First 5 Tulare County
• 2006-2007

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Project Goals
First 5 Tulare County Strategic Plan
(2006-2009)
RESULT AREA 4

• Services will be culturally appropriate,
  integrated, and collaborative

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Description

• FOUR CONCEPTS RESULTING FROM ECSS PLANNING
• 
  PROCESS
• Creating a secure, on line, shared data base with
  an
• initial cadre of agencies
• Maintaining a Service System Resource Exchange
  web site
• Identifying and developing training resources and
  opportunities
• Producing an ECSS Assessment, Analysis and
  Advocacy Report

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DescriptionFour levels of Collaboration - Sid
Gardner

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• 
  Changing the system
• 
  Results based funding

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Existing funding
3
Changing rules Redirection of funds
External funding
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Joint projects Shared grants
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Exchange information Getting to know you
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• SYSTEM ASSESSMENT, ANALYSIS ADVOCACY REPORT
• Refine current inventories of all
• childrens services
• Analyze collective goals and outcomes
• Account for dollars spent on childrens
• services
• Identify services gaps and advocate for
• the allocation of funding

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Project Overview

• Literacy Involved Facilitator Training (LIFT)
• Steps to Success/Coaching-Mentoring Project
• 2006-2007
• Proposed Special Project Application First 5
  Tulare County
• 6,759.00---------11,000

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Project Goals

• School Readiness
• Helps staff provide rich early learning
  experiences for children that reflects the Head
  Start Child Outcomes Framework.
• Increase amount of parent involvement in literacy
  development.
• Develops the capacity of staff to maintain high
  quality coaching.
• 176 children 9 protégés 9 mentors 10 program
  supervisors 6 management staff and 2
  consultants

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Description

• A comprehensive professional development system
  to train mentor coaches to work with teachers to
  improve outcomes in early literacy. Mentoring
  is required by the Head Start Act of 1998 and
  Steps to Success is a recommended system to use.

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Project Overview

• North Visalia 1 Child Development Center
• 57,300
• First 5 Tulare County Capital Funding Project
• City of Visalia
• 2006-2007

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Project Goals

• Renovate the preschool playground at the Manuel
  Hernandez Community Center to update the existing
  site to meet current California Department of
  Health Services and ADA standards for
  playgrounds.
• To be used by both Child Care and the City after
  hours operated programs.

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Project Overview

• Tulare County Local Planning Council Needs
  Assessment Project
• 13,438
• California Dept. of ED Child Dev. Div.
• First 5 Tulare County Planning Grant
• 2007-2008

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Project Goals

• Assist with cost of completing a comprehensive
  assessment of child care needs in Tulare County
• Project total cost 36,957
• Council has 13 BOS/12 Supt. Of Schools appointees
  for 25 members

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Project Overview

• Cultural Responsiveness and Dual Language
  Education
• CRADLE Project
• Richgrove Elem /Richgrove CDC/Richgrove Preschool
• Migrant Seasonal Head Start Branch Initiative
• 2007

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Project Goals

• To assist EHS and MSHS, AI and AN programs in
  deepening their relationship with parents and
  young children in the area of language
  acquisition and cultural responsiveness in order
  to give the children the foundational support
  required for children under three, the linguistic
  and cultural issues and concerns affecting family
  and expectant parents, and tools for implementing
  promising practices in dual language acquisitions
  and cultural responsiveness or infants and
  toddlers.
• Develop a strong vision for dual language
  acquisition and cultural responsiveness

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Project Overview

• I Am Moving, I Am Learning
• Region IX Head Start Initiative
• 2007

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Project Goals

• Increase the quantity of time spent in moderate
  to vigorous physical activities during the daily
  routine to meet national guidelines for physical
  activity.
• Improve the quality of structured movement
  experiences intentionality facilitated by
  teachers and adults.
• Improve healthy nutrition choice for children
  every day.

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Description

• A Proactive Approach for Addressing Childhood
  Obesity in Head Start Children
• State of the science in obesity prevention and
  state-of-the-art resources and best practices for
  addressing the growing child obesity epidemic in
  an intentional and purposeful manner.

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Current Status

• On-track
• Presentation to TCOE Instructional Services
  Curriculum Committee
• Presentation session at 2007 California Migrant
  Seasonal Head Start Conference --May 9, 2007
• Workshop with Migrant Ed. Home Based
• Piloting with 7 positive/creative supervisors and
  teachers Centers Home Based

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Project Overview

• SAMOA Monitoring Program
• Oregon Child Development Coalition
• Hispanic Institute Training Session
• Denver

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Description

• Service Area Monitoring Ongoing Assessment
  (SAMOA)
• SAMOA is a database designed for the storage and
  management of Head Start monitoring and reporting
  information
• It contains all self assessments, site visit
  reports, corrective action plans, and
• service area reports from centers

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Project Overview

• California Preschool Instructional Networks
  (CPIN)
• Merced County Office of Education Central Valley
  Region 7
• Shirley Baltazar and Team
• 2005-
• State Department of Education

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Project Overview

• Centralized Eligibility List CEL
• 212,792
• California State Department of Education
• 16 state subsidized 1 Head Start program
• 2006-2007

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Description

• 10,467 children 0-12 registered on CEL
• 6,586 children are under 5 years of age

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Project Overview

• Tulare County
• Children Services Network
• 2006-

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Description

• A Tulare County Resource Agency Collaborative
• Includes Health and Human Services Child
  Welfare Services Health, Mental Health,
  Community Based Organizations, Tulare County
  Office of Education, Probations Family Resource
  Centers CASA Central Valley Regional Center,
• Family HealthCare Center, First 5 Tulare
  County Community College, Substance Abuse, Early
  Childhood Subcommittee

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Current Status

• On-track
• --meets monthly
• --vision to work together, avoid
• duplication create a common
• vision and collaborate with all
• assets to maximize benefits to
• children in Tulare County.

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Project Overview

• United Way of Tulare County
• Born Learning Program
• First 5 Tulare County/The Genesis Project of
  Tulare County, The Ad Council and Civitas
• 2005-2006

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Description

• Nationwide television, radio, newspaper,
  magazine, and transit ads designed to help young
  children prepare for school.
• Provides parents/caregivers with tips and advice
  to create quality early learning opportunities
  for children
• Offers doable action steps that make it
  easyand fund to help young children
• learn during everyday activities such as
• sorting laundry or grocery shopping.

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Project Overview

• California Head Start Association Western Growers
• Garden Project
• 400.00
• 2006-2007

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Description

• Established at our newest Center on the campus of
  a new Adult School in Porterville
• Children with teacher Pauls help have planted
  tomatoes, lettuce,green beans, squash, spinach,
  broccoli, carrots and corn.

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Porterville Educational ComplexGarden Project
2006-2007