1. CYPB Presentation to the Community Development Committee of the New Orleans City Council
-Chairperson Cantrell and Councilpersons Gray, Guidry, Head and Williams.
-As the newly elected chair of the Children and Youth Planning Board
First, thank you for the City Council’s support and recent investment in our work.
Second, thank you for this opportunity to provide the Community Development Committee with an overview of the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board.
The intent of our presentation today is to provide you with information about CYPB’s:
Establishment, purpose and mission of CYPB
Approach to our work
The framework that undergirds our approach
Our focus areas
2015 accomplishments
2016 goals and projected outcomes
January 27th, 2016

2. Children and Youth Planning Board
Purpose
The New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board is authorized by State law and City ordinance to serve as the coordinating body for children and youth policy and planning in New Orleans.
-The New Orleans CYPB was authorized by:
State statue La. R.S. 46: et. seq. and
City stature M.C.S., Ord. No 21779, Sec. 1 ( )
-Purpose of the NO CYPB:
To serve as the coordinating and planning body for children and youth policy and planning in NO
-Operating Structure
25-member body representing a broad-based, cross-section of representatives from government, nonprofits, business, faith-based, universities, and youth who provide services to and care about the well-being of children and youth in NO.
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Mission
CYPB’S mission is to encourage collaborative efforts among local stakeholders and comprehensive planning for services and programs for the children and youth of New Orleans.
CYPB has a twofold mission:
To encourage efforts among many local stakeholders to address poverty-related conditions; and
To provide comprehensive planning for the creation and/ or strengthening of existing programs and services for all children and youth in N.O.
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-Census data show that:
39% of NO children under 18 years of age live in poverty
-Cowen Institute Study on Reconnecting Opportunity Youth show that
More than 26,000 youth ages are not in school and not working in NO
-New Orleans
like hundreds of communities, have many organizations with numerous programs and initiatives that are working to solve overlapping and complex social issues that impact children and youth.
while individual-level improvements are evident, however, long-term population or community-level changes seem unattainable
-Often, traditional approaches and thinking are to blame:
Funders provide support for individual organizations
Most groups work in silos, compete for the same pots of money and resources
Evaluations of successful efforts are limited generally to one organization
Significant change in poverty-related conditions are strongly connected to creating bigger organizations with more reach
Huge divide exists among sectors that manage and distribute funding to, and provide programs and services for, addressing/solving the challenges that children and youth face
-The BIG result is fragmented and isolated impact for all.
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So, imagine a different approach, a collective impact approach, where all key stakeholders:
Have a common understanding of the problems and possible solutions and how they work together
Create a partnership and an alignment among government, philanthropy, corporations, and nonprofits
Make decisions together about activities based on data and learnings
Potentially initiate and redirect resources toward one goal, collect and share data that measures the same outcomes sought by all.
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When people hear about the ACE Study findings, they often ask about resilience.
People get excited about the notion of resilience, in part because it reminds us that our supportive actions matter. Our desire for resilience leads naturally to a search for ways to help families and communities.
Three protective systems interact and guide positive adaptation. These powerful systems are individual capabilities, attachment and belonging with caring and competent people, and protective community, faith, and cultural processes.
What do we know about individuals who do well despite adversity? We know that the three protective systems are nested: people do best when they are living in thriving families and communities. We can help one another to develop personal attributes that help us all weather life’s storms. Personal attributes like positive view of one’s life, self-efficacy and self-regulation are all discussed at length in the resilience literature.
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If we’ve decided to dramatically improve health and safety for this and future generations, we must foster thriving communities. Fostering thriving communities is about empowerment – it’s about investing in the people who have the most at stake so they can be the expert leaders of their own community’s change. As we invest in community capacity, we can systematically providing education about neurobiology, ACEs and resilience so local people have a common language for cross-sector and multi-disciplinary work.
Building community capacity is about helping people learn, manage and improve their efforts systematically, and about providing flexible funding, state of the art education, and direct supports that help mobilize everyone who wants to help. Public and private partners that foster thriving communities learn from those communities and celebrate exceptional results from their work.
To learn more about capacity building processes, we look to communities that have changed the way people work together to solve tough problems, and had stunning success. Success doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a journey that intentionally builds new capacities and supports healing and prevention.
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Each successful community has traveled that journey differently – because each community is unique. But communities that have reduced major social problems, reduced the percent of young people with high ACE scores, and improved key factors for resilience do use similar processes for achieving better results. They use these processes to work over time to build new capacities for helping one another to thrive and new capacities for aligning resources and systems so they achieve better results.
In Washington State, a system of Community Public Health and Safety Networks call these communities “high capacity communities”. The process they have used since 1994 is called general community capacity development. It’s a public health approach to solving interrelated problems by improving peoples’ connections, their shared responsibility, and the collective impact of their efforts.
Community Capacity Development puts into place a four-phased iterative process to nurture development of healthy and productive adults regardless of the circumstances into which they are born. It is an approach that invites all members of the community to shift the ways we engage with one another on a day to day basis, improving peoples’ connections, shared responsibility, skills and efficacy.
This approach increases the collective impact of services and neighborhood initiatives by aligning efforts around common purpose. The four phases in the process are: leadership expansion, coming together around issues of importance to the community, learning together, and results-based decision making. The process is powerful because success in one phase propels success in the next. It generates a virtuous cycle with the power to improve population health, and uses all the resources in a community including its “people power”.
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-The CYPB firmly believes that in order to get our hands around and design solutions that address the debilitating conditions of poverty, we must:
better understand the roles of each partner and actor from business to public policy,
the availability or lack of services in areas such as child welfare, education, etc.,
the gaps in the systems such as juvenile justice and workforce development that impact the availability of community supports, and
the reality about the context (families, communities and culture) that must be taken into consideration,
-To ultimately create an effective infrastructure of evidence-based programs that can dramatically improve outcomes for children and youth in N.O.
We must create connections and alignment across the different settings, services and systems children and youth encounter to ensure the key elements necessary for their social and emotional well-being, safety and survival, economic well-being, good health and education and workforce readiness are in place in New Orleans.
-You see here the systems wheel that YouthShift developed as part of its research and planning process.
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10. Without these Connections
Research has shown young people are:
More likely to...
Be incarcerated
Be homeless
Be unemployed
Suffer from mental illness and substance abuse
Less likely to…
Complete high school and post-secondary education
Find and maintain steady employment
Escape poverty
Contribute to the City’s tax base
CYPB is about prevention and support: ensuring our community provides all young people the supports they need to thrive and succeed.
-If we are unsuccessful at making the connections described and illustrated in the previous slide, we know from research that children and youth in NO can be subject to becoming:
involved in the juvenile and adult justice system, homeless, jobless, and suffer from mental illness and participate in risky behavior
poorly educated with limited employable skills, remain in poverty and a non-contributor to the tax base in the community.
-CYPB is committed to preventing the aforementioned eventualities and providing strong supports to young people necessary for their successful transition to productive adulthood.
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Focus Areas of Work
Systems Improvement
Research, Issues identification, Knowledge Development, and Data Sharing
Policy and Advocacy
Representation on HCR 168 and HR 171 statewide study task force
Community Capacity Building
Collaborations and Partnerships (EMPLOY, YouthShift and NOLA for Life)
Strengthening of Positive Outcomes for Children and Youth
Alignment, coordination and strategic leveraging of existing resources
Support of quality programs
-CYPB’s work focuses on 3 key platforms.
They are:
Systems Improvement: We seek to gain a deeper understanding of the issues that impact children and youth, and share critical information to help us understand the progress we are making or not among children and youth-serving agencies. It is designed to help this community weigh-in on, as well as, recommend appropriate policy changes to the City Council and the State that will impact children and youth.
An example is our involvement in the Statewide Task Force to examine strategies and funding to improve conditions for youth aging out of foster care.
(2) Community Capacity Building: We work very closely with other entities that are looking for and or supporting solutions to improve outcomes for children and youth such as EMPLOY at the Cowen Institute at Tulane, Youth Shift, which has developed A Call to Action for NO, and NOLA FOR LIFE, which is seeking to reduce violence, particularly among young people in NO.
(3) Strengthening Positive Outcomes for Children and Youth: We also work to encourage alignment, coordination and leveraging of existing resources and to promote the support of quality programs in NO by providing letters of support for them to garner additional resources.
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In 2015, CYPB…
Established a partnership with Casey Family Programs
Recipient of $30,000 infrastructure grant (first dedicated funding)
Designation as 1 of 13 Communities of Hope sites nationwide
Collaborative Learning Cohort member that has sent local leaders to learn about best practices in Houston and Philadelphia
Leveraged Casey grant to secure $200,000 from 5 different sources
Launched Transitioning Foster Youth Task Force
Helped develop and Endorsed the YouthShift Call to Action
Juvenile Justice Committee
Juvenile Justice Data and Information Sharing
Juvenile Diversion Policy for NOPD
-Over the past year, the CYPB has built momentum behind its mission.
-We have:
Established a strong partnership with Casey Family Programs resulting in a $30,000 infrastructure grant, designation as 1 of 13 Communities of Hope sites, and a member of its learning cohort
Used the Casey grant to secure $200,000 from 5 different funding sources
Launched the Transitioning Foster Youth Task Force
Participated in the development of, and have endorsed the YouthShift Call to Action
Under the auspices of the Juvenile Justice Committee, we have taken on oversight of two key efforts: juvenile justice data and information sharing and juvenile diversion policy for NOPD.
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City Council Support
City Council funding:
For the first time in CYPB’s 11-year history, the City Council has provided direct financial support to our efforts with an allocation of $100,000 in from the City of New Orleans.
Leveraged investment:
City investment is already being leveraged with $200,000 in commitments for our work from Casey Family Programs, the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Institute of Mental Hygiene and others.
-Among the most noteworthy accomplishments in 2016, CYPB has:
Secured a first-ever financial commitment from the City Council for $100,000 in support of its efforts
Used the City’s investment to leverage another $200,000 from foundations.
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14. In 2016, we will focus on 5 goals:
Develop CYPB’s capacity to improve public policy – including allocation of public dollars – to more effectively support children and youth in New Orleans.
Reinvigorate the CYPB Juvenile Justice Committee to address gaps and decrease the number of youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
Engage a diverse coalition (Task Force) in better addressing the needs of youth transitioning out of foster care.
Support the design of trauma-informed policies and procedures for agencies and systems that serve children and youth.
Build the infrastructure and capacity of CYPB to increase its long- term capacity, effectiveness and sustainability.
-Five (5) goals in 2016 for CYPB:
Shore-up its capacity to improve policy that impacts children and youth
Reinvigorate its Juvenile Justice Committee to identify and address gaps, and reduce the number of juvenile justice system-involved youth
Expand and continue to engage a diverse coalition of agencies necessary to address the needs of foster youth exiting the system
Provide design support for agencies and systems around trauma-informed policies and procedures that serve children and youth
Continue to build its infrastructure and capacity to be an effective and sustainable planning and coordinating body.
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2016 Outcomes
Collective Action
Strengthened platform for collective action for children and youth across various stakeholder groups in New Orleans (in partnership with YouthShift and others).
Coordination and Alignment
Better coordination and alignment of existing programs and services for children and youth in New Orleans.
Data and Knowledge
Development of a knowledgeable, consistent and central voice equipped with data on issues that impact the well-being of children and youth in New Orleans.
Advocacy
Stronger advocacy for the investment and more effective use of resources targeted to priority issues/policies that impact children and youth in New Orleans.
Planning:
Development/adaptation of programs and services that address gaps for children and youth such as transitioning foster youth in New Orleans.
-CYPB is currently working toward the following outcomes in 2016: all of which are designed to create a community that has the supports for all children and youth to thrive.
-They are to:
Create a stronger platform for collective action across all stakeholder groups, in partnership with YouthShift and others.
Better coordinate and align existing services for children and youth
Enhance CYPB’s voice as the central conduit for information on issues that impact children and youth
Proactively speak to the investment and effective use of resources targeting key concerns surrounding the well-being of children and youth
Create new and adapt existing programs and services that speak to the needs of all children and youth including subpopulations such as transitioning foster youth.
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A Partnership
The Children and Youth Planning Board has partnered with YouthShift to support efforts to coordinate and align programs, services and activities focused on improving outcomes for children and youth in New Orleans.
Since you are about to hear a presentation on YouthShift, we wanted to speak directly to the relationship between these two entities. From the beginning of YouthShift, CYPB has supported its efforts as a coordinated planning effort for children and youth in New Orleans.
CYPB’s role in YouthShift:
-Our members have played critical leadership roles on the YouthShift Steering Committee
-We have participated in and promoted data collection efforts to inform planning
-We have had standing updates from YouthShift at every Board and Executive Committee meeting
-We endorsed the YouthShift Call for Connection in December
-We have at least two CYPB members who will serve on each of the five YouthShift Action Teams this year to develop action teams around each of the five recommendations in YouthShift’s Call for Connection.
YouthShift’s role with CYPB:
-Collecting and sharing data on programs and services for children and youth in New Orleans
-Gathering voices and input from multiple sectors that affect children and youth
-Mobilizing philanthropy behind a coordinated planning effort
You will hear more in a moment about YouthShift.
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Thank You
We welcome discussion and questions about this presentation and the work of the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board.
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