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1. Mayor’s Office For Education & Children peak performance review January 24, 2013 for the period covering: September 2012 – December 2012
2. Vision: Deliver a City where all children, youth and their families have the opportunity to succeed. Mission: Ensure that Denver’s children and youth have their basic needs met, are ready for kindergarten, and prepared for academic and professional success. Vision/Mission
3. Strategy for the Office of Children’s Affairs The Office is dedicated to ensuring Denver’s children and youth have their basic needs met, are ready for kindergarten, and prepared for academic and professional success. By increasing access, participation and quality for all families in Denver, this mission can be accomplished. The strategy is centered on an aggressive continuous improvement process that effectively leverages data, convenes diverse stakeholders, builds strategic partnerships, and funds highly innovative and effective programs.
4. Summarizing the Approach We are evaluating and assessing results We are collecting and analyzing data effectively We are executing investments in projects, system changes We are sharing information and learning from communities We are prioritizing and designing investments
5. Specific Strategic Objectives with a Specific Activity Designed to Improve Team Performance Implement a High Performing and Accountable Culture
6. Key Areas of Focus
7. End of 2012 Focus Identify baseline measures for key initiatives – near completion Begin to implement tracking mechanisms – 2013 underway What’s new:
8. Established through Executive Order 139 Develop and provide policy guidance Coordinate and integrate services across City agencies and key partners Develop strategies to take advantage of opportunities and remove the barriers for Denver children and youth Variation of the Collective Impact Model Common Agenda: Reduce obesity, reduce the number of disconnected youth, and align early childhood programs and services Shared Measurement: Collect data and measure results, shared accountability Infrastructure: Office of Children’s Affairs Denver Children’s Cabinet
9. Support Working Families Support working families by increasing the number of children who have access to quality child care by xx% by xx year. Preschool Attendance by Denver Neighborhood Goal will be set by the work group Strategically align publicly funded child care programs (includes Early Head Start, Head Start, CCAP, CPP, DPP, and DPS ECE) U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 5-year averages. 2007-2011
10. Disconnected Youth Sub-populations of disconnected youth can include youth who are: Young unmarried parents Immigrants Homeless Incarcerated In foster care High school dropouts Disabled Reduce the number of disconnected youth in Denver to no more than 8 percent by 2017 (from 11 to 8 percent in 5 years) In 2011, 3,000 Denver teens (ages 16-19) were not in school or working. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2006-2010, 2011
11. Healthy Kids 34% of Denver children were overweight or obese. (3 year average, 2008-2010) Being overweight or obese can be closely related to poverty. Goal: Reduce the number of overweight and obese children in Denver by 5 percent by 2017 (from 34 to 29 percent in 5 years) Source: 2012 Kids Count in Colorado! Report, Data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Health Statistics Section, 2008-2010 Child Health Surveys
12. Denver Great Kids Head Start is a quality early learning program that prepares children to enter kindergarten confidently with the social, physical, emotional, and cognitive skills and competencies necessary for continued school success. School Readiness: Denver Great Kids Head Start The City of Denver is a federal Head Start grantee that: Manages $8.8 million Oversees 6 community providers Serves 1,153 children and their families
13. Denver Great Kids Head StartFall 2012 Baseline Student Assessment Data: Teaching Strategies Gold The total number of children included in these assessments in the fall was 802. 329 (41% of those tested) were 3-year-old children 465 (58% of those tested) were 4-year-old children Measures the knowledge, skills and behaviors that are most predictive of school success. DGKHS Goal: 1.25% growth for all Head Start children from fall 2012 to spring 2013.
14. Denver Great Kids Head StartQuality Measures: Teacher Qualifications Goal: Ensure that each delegate agency has a least 70% of classroom teachers with a bachelors degree or higher
15. Denver Great Kids Head StartData System: Revision Timeline Goal: Functional system by July 1, 2013
16. School Readiness: 5 By 5 Program The goal for the 2012-2013 program year (October 1 – August 31) is 40,000 visits.
17. MY Denver Card Starting in the fall of 2012, Denver Public School 6-12th grade students can apply to use their DPS student ID to gain free access to all Denver Parks and Recreation Centers, and use it as their Denver Public Library Card. Challenges: Late start – couldn’t take advantage of summer school registration to promote DPS does not have a centralized ID system Process takes too long Did not know about 2A when idea was born Next Steps: Explore city issuing (separate from student ID) Develop web-based application system Incorporate program levels (K-5, 6-12)
18. Mission Have a sustainable, citywide OST system that increases access and participation in quality OST programs for all Denver children and youth in order to promote positive youth development, ensure student success, and achieve post-secondary preparation. Year Two Goals Post a 20 percent increase in number of new OST Program sites that will participate in the Youth Program Quality Intervention.  Year 1 baseline was 34 sites  - Year 2 goal is 41 sites 125 OST agencies that serve Denver Public Schools (DPS) students and participate in the Community Partner System (CPS) will have a DPS Partnership Agreement and/or Data Sharing Agreement as determined by data needs and usage of data in place by 8/2013. 125 OST agencies providing services within a Denver Public School will have completed profile entered into the Community Partnership System (CPS) by 8/2013 Out of School Time: Wallace Foundation Grant
19. Youth Success: Drop In Denver In 2011, 2,292 (6.4%) students dropped out of Denver Public Schools. Source: Colorado Department of Education “Drop in Denver” is an initiative spearheaded by Colorado Youth for a Change (CYC)—a non-profit organization dedicated to solving Colorado’s dropout crisis. This pilot program is being launched in partnership with the Office of Children’s Affairs. Other partners include Denver Public Schools, Colorado Public Television and Donnell-Kay Foundation. http://www.dropindenver.com/index.html
20. Mayor’s Youth Commission In December 2012 the Commission presented a draft action plan to address the mental health needs of Denver youth to Mayor Hancock. The plan consisted of three main components: PR/social media campaign Make 3,400 connections (10% of DPS middle and high school students) between February and June 2013. Youth Conference Reach 250 youth by participating in a youth conference in the spring of 2013. School specific strategies to increase the use of mental health resources Focus on Abraham Lincoln High School (survey, action plan to address results) Mayor’s Youth Awards The Mayor’s Youth Award honors teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19 who have overcome adversity to achieve person success. 88 nominations were received through December 15, 2012. 30 awards will be issued. The Community College of Denver will again provide scholarships to the MYA seniors. Youth Success: Youth Commission
21. Health: Food and Nutrition Monthly Average Goal = 4,800 14 city-sponsored food distribution sites served over 60,800 meals to Denver children during the summer. 7 month (November – May goal = 33, 600 meals
22. Community Outreach Efforts The Office of Children’s Affairs provides information to the community through trainings, presentations, and events with students, parents, teachers and community members at-large. The Activity Tracking Spreadsheet is designed to capture the important work our staff conducts in the community. Tracking began in October, 2012. We will continue to track community outreach through the Springs of 2013 to establish a baseline of measurement. Once the baseline is identified, we will set goals to improve the number and quality of outreach efforts in the Denver community. Through activities from October – December 2012, the Office engaged 1,365 students, parents, teachers and community members.
23. A Strong Foundation We have been asked to innovate – be bold. Must have a strong foundation Spent the last year, assessing and starting to repair the foundation and set the vision. We are a few months away from standing on solid ground – operationally and programmatically. We will then be able to truly be innovative and transformative within our agency and with our city and external partners.
24. Next Review Next Performance Review: May 23, 2013 Strategies and Tactics of focus for next meeting - Education Compact goals and strategies Children’s Cabinet action plans Summer Food goals Strategies for increasing number of students served in OST programs through 2A investment Update on projects and opportunities – Officially launch the MY Denver Card program – March/April Pilot summer STEM academy