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Welcome and thank you in advance for completing this Interest Form (see bottom of page) for the OK Parent Partnership Learning Community!
Why is this Parent Partnership Learning Community being created?
To advance family and community voice in order to increase quality coordinated services at the local and state level.
To become a top ten state, we believe every family-serving agency/organization should have a consumer-oriented advisory committee AND remove barriers to increase parental involvement (childcare, family meal, compensation, and transportation). We can accomplish this by promoting the integration of a relationship-based quality improvement framework.
Engaging parent and community leaders increases quality communication, coordination, transparency, and positive outcomes for all Oklahoma children, families and communities.
This trauma-informed public-private interagency effort aims to partner with diverse family leaders with lived experience and parent partnership staff/leaders to improve the well-being of all residents of Oklahoma. In particular, this collaborative effort promotes trauma trainings, implementation of Handle With Care, peer support groups, parent advisory councils, and family resource centers statewide by providing free technical assistance and virtual breakout sessions with experts 3-4 times per year.
- Trauma/Hope Trainings: increase awareness of trauma and responsive strategies to build hope and resilience;
- Handle With Care: an interagency collaboration that immediately connects children and families with supports, as needed, after a traumatic exposure, by coordination of law enforcment, schools, and behavioral/social/health services;
- Peer support groups: families experiencing multiple SDOH barriers can be referred; trained co-facilitators create a safe and welcoming weekly space to establish responsive relationships, remove sources of stress, and build core skills to increase family and workplace stability;
- Parent partnership advisory committees: advance leadership in neighborhoods experiencing inequities to co-design solutions;
- Family resource centers/Community Hope Centers/Community Schools: a safe and trusted place to coordinate a variety of local services to strengthen family and community well-being, while removing barriers for participation (childcare, family meal, compensation, and transportation); and
- Trauma informed policies and practices: authenitc quality feedback loops with the community provide ongoing opportunites to advance policies, procedures, and practices.
With these complementing strategies, we can co-design solutions for quality, innovation and coordination among early childhood and family-serving systems, especially with zip codes experiencing health disparities.
These interrelated and interdependent approaches are best described by the following visuals that were created with parent leaders and the Parent Partnership Planning Committee:
Umbrella of Interagency Strategies
Relationship-Based Quality Framework
Equitable Pathways: Increasing Cross-Sector Collaboration & Community Leaders
Who is supporting this effort?
The Learning Community is a collaborative effort with the following partners, but not limited to:
- Raising Resilient Oklahomans (managed by the Potts Family Foundation) provides information on upcoming trauma-informed community trainings with the "Resilience Film" and N.E.A.R. Science;
- Lynn Institute provides Hope Leadership and Hope Navigator trainings;
- MyHealth provides a mobile screening system, in partnership with its Oklahoma health care partners, that helps individuals with needs find assistance from services and resources offered in the community;
- Public Health Institute of Oklahoma (PHIO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving Oklahoma's health outcomes by facilitating state-wide partnerships and learning communities, increasing equity and access to underserved communities, and providing supports to community health organizations, including Community/County Health Improvement Organizations (CHIOs); backbone organization for Handle With Care Oklahoma;
- The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is evaluating life skill courses/peer support groups as a quality improvement effort to improve health outcomes by addressing social drivers of health; these peer support groups with trained facilitators may be hosted at family resource centers; graduates of peer support groups may be recruited for parent advisory committees;
- OUHSC can provide more detailed Oklahoma Parent Advisory Committee (PAC) training/coaching as a follow-up to the Learning Community;
- Oklahoma State Department of Health provides technical assistance and training for family resource centers, parent advisory committees, and peer support groups; connected to national best practices in family resource centers by the National Family Support Network;
- Oklahoma State Department of Education provides technical assistance and training for community schools as part of their 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CLC) and their Family Engagement Framework; promotes Handle With Care with their Office of School Safety and provides trauma training;
- Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services provides trauma trainings and peer support groups, employs parent partners, and coordinates Systems of Care;
- Oklahoma Family Network focuses on supporting families of children and youth with special needs via emotional support, resource navigation, and ensuring quality healthcare for all children and families through strong and effective family/professional partnerships;
- Oklahoma Turning Point Council (OTPC) is a statewide coalition that improves the health of all Oklahomans by supporting community partnerships through education & advocacy, sharing opportunities and resources, and promoting complementing local and state efforts; and
- The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth's Office of Planning and Coordination, guided by the OCCY Parent Partnership Board, increases cross-sector collaboration with commissioners; connected to national best practices in family engagement by Children's Trust Fund Alliance;
- Oklahoma Department of Human Services contracts with OPSR to be the host-agency for the Oklahoma Clearinghouse for Early Childhood Success that promotes quality and innovation for early childhood systems and braids public-private funding;
- Oklahoma Public Health Association (OPHA) provides a forum for the professional enrichment of more than 1,000 dedicated public health professionals. OPHA is an affiliated association of the American Public Health Association (APHA). OPHA has collaborated with APHA to grow stronger as an organization, to share expertise, influence, and resources, and to advocate for common priorities at the local, state and federal levels.
How will we show we are making a difference?
The Learning Community will track progress using three tools:
1) ARTIC Scale, a psychometrically valid measure of professional and para-professional attitudes toward Trauma Informed Care (TIC);
2) "Parent Engagement and Leadership Assessment Tool" developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP). The four pillars include being family-centered, equity-driven, collaborative, and transparent. Key milestones include commitment, capacity, practice, and influence. Survey tool can be accessed here: https://redcap.link/pac_engagement
3) Stability Scale, to measure progress on social drivers of health and connection to stabilizing resources;
Outputs include number of schools receiving Handle With Care notices from law enforcement, increasing the number of quality peer support groups located at diverse family resource centers with effective parent advisory committees across the state.
Outcomes include:
- peer leaders build trust with community
- increased access to services and resources
- improved social drivers of health
- improved child/family stability
- increased school attendance, positive behavior, and learning
- increased health and well-being outcomes
- increased retention of employees
- increased community stability
We believe that meaningful parent engagement is an essential quality improvement and systems-change strategy that increases effective adult-child system collaboration, effective cross-sector partnership, and the inclusive lens regarding equity/racial/cultural-relevance.
This Learning Community will bring together a network of stakeholders to advance policy and systems change implementation that reimagines parent engagement and addresses barriers for participation.
How will participants access learning materials?
All agencies and organizations that submit an interest form can participate in the learning calls and have access to a shared google drive and list of interagency trainings.
What opportunties will be available for participants?
As funds are available, select agencies/organizations who are prepared to implement a parent/community engagement plan will be eligible to receive more intense support and technical assistance.
What are the benefits of participating in this learning community?
- Convene virtually 3-4 times per year to hear topical presentations on parent engagement opportunities, participate in cross-state sharing, and community building;
- Receive support and technical assistance to develop a parent/caregiver engagement plan that would make meaningful change for youth, families, organizations and communities;
- Engage in one-on-one or small groups with OUHSC/OHCA/PHIO staff and external experts to support their proposal development, including OK-Parent Partnership Planning Committee members.
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As funds are available, there will be specific outreach efforts and supports to communities with high poverty rates among families with children birth to eight years old and high density of "rising-risk" Medicaid members. These extra supports include more in-depth technical assistance, strategic planning, and funding for developing and sustaining a cohort of diverse family resource centers with parent advisory committees and peer support groups.
What are the goals of the learning community?
- Increase trauma awareness and responsiveness through community trainings
- Dissemination of best practices of parent partnership with family resource centers, parent advisory councils, peer support groups, and Handle With Care;
- Address social drivers of health through peer support groups and improve health and well-being outcomes;
- Support wider implementation of parent engagement strategies;
- Promote cross-state sharing of successes and challenges in reimagining parent engagement;
- Build community across agencies within Oklahoma;
- Empower frontline staff to provide meaningful parent engagement and remove barriers for participation;
- Share funding opportunities to improve parent engagement and provide coaching/implementation guidance;
- Gather parent feedback in support of state advocacy, public comment on administrative rules, nominate for statewide parent advisory positions, and parent involvement in interim studies;
- Support state and local leaders to shift narratives around barriers by challenging mental models that hold systemic problems in place.
- Develop strategies, policies and procedures to remove barriers for family participation (free childcare, food, transportation support, and stipends/honorariums).
What dates should I save on my calendar?
Important Deadlines & Events:
Deadline to Submit Interest Form: ongoing
Individuals who complete the below interest form will be sent a calendar invite with zoom link:
Learning Community Events (Possible Dates/Times):
Self-Healing Communties
4th Thursday of the month 10:00am - 11:30am (CST)
Systems of Care, State Advisory Team
Meets 1st Friday of each month, 10am-12pm
https://zoom.us/j/96943777303
If you have any questions about the OK Parent Partnership Learning Community, please feel free to contact:
Community Trauma Trainings (Resilience Film and NEAR Science):
Linda Manaugh, Potts Family Foundation
lmanaugh@pottsfamilyfoundation.org
NEAROK@okstate.edu
Community Hope/Hope Navigator Trainings:
Jeaneen Pointer, Lynn Institute
jpointer@lynninstitute.org
Handle With Care Oklahoma:
Adrienne Elder, Director of Early Intervention
info@handlewithcareok.org
adrienne@publichealthok.org
Peer Support Groups:
Jennifer Colbert, Quality Improvement Manager for Social Determinants of Health,
Jennifer.Colbert@okhca.org
Parent Advisory Committee - Coaching/Training/Tech Assistance:
La'Chanda Stephens-Totimeh, OUHSC Trainer for Parent Partnership Advisory Committees,
Lachanda-Totimeh@ouhsc.edu
Family Resource Centers/Hope Centers:
LaChez' English, Coordinator for Oklahoma Family Support Network,
LaChezE@health.ok.gov
Community Schools:
Sonia Johnson, 21st Century Community Learning Centers
Sonia.Johnson@sde.ok.gov
Cross-Systems Coordinator
Tayvon.Lewis@okstate.edu
Systems of Care, State Advisory Team
Meets 1st Friday of each month, 10am-12pm
https://zoom.us/j/96943777303
Please complete the Interest Form below to receive updates and newsletters from participating partners.
Thank you!
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