Application - System Alignment for Young Families Learning Academy

Application Deadline: February 2, 2022

Overview

The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is launching a learning academy to bring together teams of cross-sectional state or local leadership, parents and other key stakeholders to advance alignment of health and human services systems to better serve and support young families. This work builds off of APHSA's "System Alignment for Young Families Workgroup" which brought together state and local leadership, advocacy organization, researchers and young parents to advise on the experiences of those who administer and those who utilize the health and human services programs, culminating in the release of APHSA’s, "Working Together – A Roadmap to Human Services System Alignment for Young Families "

About the Learning Academy

The System Alignment for Young Families Learning Academy will bring together at least six cross-sectional states or local teams for peer-to-peer learning and technical assistance from March 2022 until September 2022. The Academy will consist of three peer-to-peer learning sessions and nine, shorter, direct project team technical assistance sessions. Peer to peer sessions will give participants a chance to come together to share resources, discuss specific barriers, and learn from the progress made by each team. Bi-monthly individual team meetings will focus on the creation and implementation of a Strategic Alignment Plan (SAP) to identify and actualize system alignment goals within each teams’ individual jurisdiction.

Requirements

In order to participate in the learning academy, teams must meet the following requirements:

Have the expressed support and commitment to system alignment for young families from all relevant state or local leadership
Ability to meet a time commitment of six months and twelve total sessions, varying in length from 30-90 minutes. To the extent possible, the whole team should be present for each meeting.
Meet requirements for cross-sectional team make-up.

Make up of the team

Each jurisdiction may decide the makeup of their teams within the following guidelines:

Teams must include at least one young parents (generally, a parent under the age of 24 with at least one child under the age of five, preferably with lived expertise accessing or utilizing human services systems).
Two to three members of the team should consist of cross-programmatic leadership from any health or human service agency, (i.e. child care, TANF, SNAP, child welfare, child support, public health, etc.).
Teams can have a maximum of 6 members per team. Team are highly encouraged to include representative team members such as front-line staff that spend at least 50% of their time working directly with program participants; staff that support or lead data collection and analysis or IT infrastructure; or representatives from the provider community. Priority will be given to teams whose members reflects each team's individual goals and interests.

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* 7. Parent leaders must be compensated fairly and equitably for time spent during this initiative. State and local agencies teams must either certify that parent participants will be compensated through an existing compensation structure, or commit to developing a compensation structure in partnership with APHSA

I certify that the young parent participant is compensated under an existing compensation mechanism

The young parent participant is not compensated under an existing compensation mechanism, but our agency agrees to create such a mechanism within 30 days of acceptance to this program

We will need to work with APHSA to develop a compensation mechanism, and commit to doing so within 30 days of acceptance to this program

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* 8. All team members agree to participate in each session and acknowledge that members of the team will have sufficient staff time and resources to participate in this effort.

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* 9. Current Level of Collaboration: Please select the mechanisms your state or locality has used or are currently in place for cross-agency partnership and alignment of services

Shared data/measurement system (e.g., data-sharing agreement)

Formal agreements, such as contracts and MOU(s)

Aligned priority objectives and/or outcome goals

Shared staff and/or liaison position between two agencies

Shared funding arrangements or mechanisms between the two agencies

Regular meetings between child and family human services and public health leadership

Regular meetings between child and family human services and public health project staff

Other cross-agency partnership mechanisms:

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* 10. Goals: Please describe why your ream wants to participate in this community, work you have done in the past 2-3 years toward system alignment and any specific goals you might have for the work accomplished while in this community

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* 11. Describe who is on your team and how this is reflective of your goals.

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* 12. Technical Assistance Needs/Interests

Please check the boxes below for TA topics that your team may be interested in, including additional suggestions as desired.

Data sharing, access, analysis, and dissemination

Evidence/examples demonstrating partnerships for system alignment in other states and jurisdictions

Leveraging funding from the American Rescue Plan

Cross-agency workforce development and training

Community engagement, education, or training

Braiding and Layering of financial resources

State-level child and family human services and or public health policy development or implementation guidance

Strategies to increase racial equity within systems

Leadership and building political will

Evaluation and development of shared metrics

Coordinated Case Management/Service Delivery/Common Applications

Specific strategies for families with very young children (0-3)

Other (please specify)

Application - System Alignment for Young Families Learning Academy

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* 1. Teams will designate a point of contact. This person will be responsible for monitoring and ensuring all team members have received information and assist with scheduling on behalf of the team, as necessary.

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* 2. For questions 2- 6, Please list the remaining members of your team.

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* 3. For questions 2- 6, Please list the remaining members of your team.

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* 4. For questions 2- 6, Please list the remaining members of your team.

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* 5. For questions 2- 6, Please list the remaining members of your team.

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* 6. For questions 2- 6, Please list the remaining members of your team.

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* 8. All team members agree to participate in each session and acknowledge that members of the team will have sufficient staff time and resources to participate in this effort.

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* 9. Current Level of Collaboration: Please select the mechanisms your state or locality has used or are currently in place for cross-agency partnership and alignment of services

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* 10. Goals: Please describe why your ream wants to participate in this community, work you have done in the past 2-3 years toward system alignment and any specific goals you might have for the work accomplished while in this community

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* 11. Describe who is on your team and how this is reflective of your goals.

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* 12. Technical Assistance Needs/Interests Please check the boxes below for TA topics that your team may be interested in, including additional suggestions as desired.

* 12. Technical Assistance Needs/Interests

Please check the boxes below for TA topics that your team may be interested in, including additional suggestions as desired.