WCGMF-Discovery | Collaboration

Collaboration is a process among a group of stakeholders with a common agenda. In this case of Discovery, the common agenda is to improve the lives of children from birth to age 8. Partners may include individual parents, other community residents, people representing organized groups of parents and residents (such as seniors), early care and education providers, schools, employers and other business people, government and others with a role to play in helping a community’s children to thrive.

Collaboration is so critical to the work of Discovery because children need many different kinds of support to thrive in their early years and do well in early grades in school. No one family, organization or institution can cover all of these bases alone; no one of them alone has the legal or political power to put all the pieces in place.

This section includes:

[1] » Community Materials
[2] » Statewide Partner Materials
[3] » How To / Toolkits

Tools for developing a successful collaboration, overcoming obstacles, and fostering a collaborative environment.

This category contains 11 resources

[4] » Community Planning Tools

Self-assessment and planning is key to the Discovery value of building community capacity to make positive changes on behalf of young children. The Discovery Community Assessment and Planning Tool is designed to facilitate dialogue among participants in the Discovery work about five core principles of collaboration, and the factors that relate to each principle. The Community Planning Tools are offered to help communities to facilitate a planning process around young children. For Discovery, a community planning process is a way in which the collaborative can be a catalyst for systems change and engage those most affected in local decision-making.

This category contains 37 resources

[5] » Funding
[6] » Related Sites

Featured Resources


	[7] CT SDE ARRA Presentation Connecticut State Department of Education ARRA Informational Presentation. (566.5K Bytes)

	[8] SDE Stimulus Funds Planning Grid SDE recommended rubric for district planning. (60.61K Bytes)

	[9] Stimulus Fund Allocations by District (Preliminary) List of preliminary ARRA Entitlements under Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by district. These allocations are preliminary estimates compiled by the Connecticut State Department of Education. (280.99K Bytes)

	[10] Membership Materials: Letter of Request to Join MAC (Mansfield) Sample letter for prospective MAC members to express their interest in joining MAC. (28.5K Bytes) (See other resources by [11] Mansfield)

	[12] Membership Materials: MAC Meeting Calendar (Mansfield) Mansfield Advocates for Children 2009-2010 Meeting Calendar. (49K Bytes) (See other resources by [13] Mansfield)

	[14] Membership Materials: MAC Overview (Mansfield) Brief overview of MAC and its members and work. (28K Bytes) (See other resources by [15] Mansfield)

Resources


	[16] Process for Requesting On-Site TA Information about the process for requesting a consultant to work with a Discovery community on a particular piece of work. (19.55K Bytes)

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[7]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1206.ppt
[8]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1201.pdf
[9]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1202.pdf
[10]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1245.doc
[11]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/community_1018.html
[12]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1247.doc
[13]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/community_1018.html
[14]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_1246.doc
[15]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/community_1018.html
[16]: http://discovery.wcgmf.org/resources/sps_resource_869.FINAL

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