2. Service Array Priority Plan
Prioritize big picture areas for development over the next 3-5 years.
Identify priority areas for development or enhancement in 1-3 years.

3. Goal
A broad but specific and measurable statement describing the end goal. “
Children are healthy, safe, ready and successful in school
and supported in quality and nurturing environments. ”

4. Emerging Priorities in [city/town]
Increased awareness of services among providers and consumers (211, Resource Guide, opportunities for learning and sharing among providers)
Improved accessibility of services (need interrupters, materials, etc.) for non-English speaking families
More 24-hour crisis services and services for “gap” Families and youth
Alignment of employment opportunities and skills/training of workforce
Better understanding of influx of young families and children (esp. in relation to impact on early childhood services)
Transportation assistance
Increase collaboration and coordination of services for families
All Four Areas
Basic needs
Increase affordable housing options
Attract new/more health providers especially for specialized services, i.e. pediatrics, psychiatry, etc.
Support QRIS, Step Up to Quality, for all early childhood providers—Child and Youth Safety and Development
Healthcare access and promotion
Family life and development
Continue to work on quality early childhood continuum, i.e. child care, preschool, home visitation, etc., to increase readiness for school
Child and youth safety and development
Involve families from the beginning to better understand needs

5. Priority Development Ability to Impact Potential for Linkages
Potential for Family/Parent Support
Potential for Sustainability

6. Priority Outcomes
Changes or outcomes that support the achievement of the goal.

7. Policy issues needing attention
Priority Outcome Areas (small groups)
What efforts/promising practices can we sustain, enhance or develop to improve our service delivery system?
Policy issues needing attention
Other patterns
and themes
Weaknesses
Or gaps
More info needed
strengths

8. Legal and Policy Changes
Identify legal and policy issues which are affecting the prevention system.
These may be areas a community can not change on its own.

9. Strategies: Where could we begin to focus our efforts/promising practices?
Areas which will take longer term planning or shifting of resources but which will have an impact on higher end systems of care
May require developing components of a system (assessment, Family Centered Practice, coordination of agencies)
May require capital investment, e.g., shared information systems

10. What do we really want to sustain?
Outcomes-Quality Improvements
Systems and Systems Change
Core Services/Access
Sustaining change requires different actions
and structures from the onset.
Prioritize big picture areas for development over the next 3-5 years
Not necessarily programs or grants
Best Practices

11. Strategies: Short Term (1-3 years)
Priorities that need to be addressed within 1-3 years
Possible to accomplish but will require some resources (time, talent and financial)
Consider essential to prevention and Child Well Being outcomes

12. Strategies: Quick Wins
Areas that require no funding or for which the resources already exist
Changes to actions, e.g., community education, shared resources for staff training, cross training people who already have contact with a certain consumer/client group to include another function

13. Actions
Tangible resources/activities implemented/created by the project for the purpose of achieving strategies

14. Identify Impact/Measures
Improved Child Well Being Indicators
Enhanced Protective Factors
Contribute to Shared Vision