intention is to address specific challenges, such as familyhomelessness, that can interfere with consistent service access. Transitions procedures andpractices can also ensure effective transitions from Early Head Start to Head Start and to otherearly childhood education programs or schools.
What are barriers that may impact the progress of the family and children what are the best ways to combat these barriers.
se environments createopportunities for families to build relationships with other families and community organizations
What would this look like building wise?
rogram data to inform local and stateplanning and policy decision
Its interesting that they are using their program data on an individual level to help with state planning and policy decisions.
Families, other community members,and staff can co-design and co-lead training tostrengthen family and community partnerships.
Professional Development days or in services days are important to me everything is always changing and in order to keep up with the new standards organizations should be offering their staff designated times where they can learn.
eaders advocate for the inclusion of diverse family voices at all levels of theprogram, including in formal decision-making groups, such as parent committees and policycouncil
Leaders are taking the time to consider the families voices at all levels of the program as well as including them in formal decision-making process on a macro level
peers
I appreciate that they added peers into this.
advocate for their child’s learning
This is really important that parents are encouraged to advocate for their child's learning because often times parents might be intimidated to or don't know how to so its important that providers aid them in this however this is possible.
physical and mental healthservices,
what are physical services? health care services, dental services, and nutrition services
full range of strengths, interests, and needs of each child andfamily. Staff then connect families with all the available services and resources they need toachieve their goals
After a child's assessment or evaluation PFCE will then consider their full range of strengths, interests and needs of each child and family and relay them to the available services and resources they need to achieve these specific goals.
withcommunity members and agencies at all levels
I love this because I think it really relates to the idea that it takes a village to raise a child. I like that this program is involved with other agencies and resources which can improve a child's outcome such as educational advancement, economic mobility and others.
hey know their children better thananyone—their temperaments, personalities, strengths, vulnerabilities, talents, andspecial needs. They know their own cultures and the cultures they want to transmit totheir children. When parents share their knowledge, they improve provider practicesand program quality.
This is important to keep in mind that yes the provider has education and the degree but the parents know their children better than anyone they are the experts on their child.
Family engagement means doing with—not doing to or for—families
I sentence a lot I a lot of the times in child care services we often look at it as we are doing a service for the parents by watching their care but I think that the family engagement in a child's development and education is key.
school readiness
I like that they added school readiness as an outcome because to me working in childcare this is a section that is totally skipped over
ccess and Continuity
Access: equitable access especially for vulnerable populations Continuity: consistent and connected care overtime
rganizational approachto systemic, integrated, comprehensive parent,family, community engagement.
Organizational Approach: focusing within the organization itself.
Is a highly routinized services a poor fit with the needs and expectations of a diverse employee population.
Sometimes this can have the reverse of the effect that it is trying to have such as tokenism.
Are these physical barriers?
Cultural humility vs. cultural competency is a concept in many social work classes as well as public health classes.
Personal vs. the organizations
Is there a regular IT staff or is it just the company?
I think that social media and organization's websites might be interesting avenue to discuss with HIPPA.
Why is it rare to be surprised by the written evaluation?
Public opinion is always changing or moving (dynamic)
accrediting bodies certify the operation of organizations as a whole. While professional associations and licensing bodies certify the work of individuals
Keep in mind the type of volunteers that organizations are getting.
Would an example of a noncash revune also be the space that the organization is consuming?
Agencies with the greater number of funding sources the more complex the agency's operations become whle agencies with a single funding source risk becoming rigid and overspecialized.
Look back at critical theory perspective!
Consumers: clients Suppliers of materials, labor capital, equipment and work space Competitors for both markets and resources Regulatory groups, including government and accrediting bodies
The task environment includes four key components: consumers, suppliers, competitors and regulators.
Task environment consists of elements outside an organization that enable it to operate and that set the basic contact for these operations.
Domain maybe understood as a boundary it draws around itself to define what it does and whom it serves.
Mission statements involve problems, needs and or populations the agency serves, along with client outcomes to be expected.
Organization public (governmental) its legal basis rests in a statute or executive order. If it is private, its legal basis is in its articles or incorporation. When adding more services this is when organizations may operate outside their legal authority.
Identity pertains to what insiders want to believe about their organizations or their programs, which holds people together in times of change or great uncertainty. Image is constructed by persons beyond an organization's boundaries.
What is the history of this organization? (mission statement, when was it founded, by who was founded, etc.) How would you describe the organizations identity, and is it congruent with its image? determine the organizations mission statements and values then from there look at it from an outsiders perspective.
The lakeside family service agency was orginally founded by the methdolist church. In the 40s and 30s it was the recipient of generous contributions from united way. in the 70s united way took prizitizng the service.
The organization became more focused on adherence to policies and procedures rather then achievement of appropriate case outcomes. ALL decisions about cases had to pass through and be signed by a supervisor.
1) growing population of the county 2) retirement of current management staff Brought in a professional in insurance, things quickly drifted from its original form. Noticeable changes in its structure, with defined work units, and reporting lines from entry level all the way to the director.
Middle managers and supervisors were professionals with many years of experience. Experience in what?
rgue that economicgrowth is more important than any harm to health.
No it is not!
It is now 38% of the total annual income that they hold
Each system has a structure; the parts have a relationship to eachother.• The whole is more than the sum of its parts.• Everything is connected; a change in any one part affects the systemas a whole.• All systems are, at the same time, made up of smaller (sub)systemsand are parts of larger systems.• Each system has a boundary that separates it from other systemsand helps to give it its identity.• As systems evolve, they become more complex (i.e., the partsbecome differentiated and more specialized)
Each system has a structure; the parts have a relationship to each other The whole is more than the sum of its parts All systems at the same time made up smaller sub systems and are parts of larger systems Each system has a boundry that seperates it from other systems and helps to give it its identity As systems evolve they become more complex
Police, security guards, prison wardens, soldiers,deans and administrators, immigration officials, and fathers in theirrole as “the discipline in the family”—these are all traditionallymale roles in the buffer zone designed to keep people in their placein the hierarchy.v
Male dominate roles that are not just in finance or business but also in some type of service related field.
Social welfare workers, nurses,teachers, counselors, case workers of various sorts, advocates forvarious groups—these occupations, which are found primarily inthe bottom of the pyramid, are performed mostly by women, andare primarily identified as women’s work, taking care of people atthe bottom of the pyramid
This was mentioned in the other reading as well, it doesn't come to a surprise to me that these careers fall at the bottom of the pyramid.
8 submissions
Is this annotation of the syllabus included in the eight submissions?
Time Commitment
In the course expectations, the time commitment section is important to take note of since this section breaks down the time required to accomplish each activity or assignment. This will be something I refer back to as I plan out my weeks and time this semester.