Birth to Five/Ingham Great Start Collaborative 
Vision Statement: “Every Ingham County child ready to succeed in school and life”

AGENDA for 11/14/07 Ingham GSC Retreat

Grace United Methodist Church, 1900 Boston Blvd, Lansing 48911

 
9:30am             Introductions (restrooms & coffee location)
                         Warm-Up, from “I’m Moving I’m Learning“ activity #1 (Lucy)

 9:45am            Background re-cap (how we got to here) - Attachment A
                         AGENDA REVIEW, goals for the day

9:55am             Stumbling Blocks and Barriers Activity (Lori B)

10:05am           ECIC instructions - Attachment B, Systems Perspective, focus on Roles, Resources & Dates
                         Small group instructions (charts, facilitator, recorder, time, choose/assign group)

10:15am           Small group work
                              Economic Security and Child Safety (Lucy)
                              Social Emotional (Fran)
                              Physical Health (Lori)
                              Family Support and Parent Ed (Sharlina)
                              Early Care & Education (Stephanie)

12 noon             LUNCH break
                          Announcements and sharing time

12:45pm             “I’m Moving I’m Learning“ activity #2 (Lucy)

1:00pm             Small groups present to all
                         Fill-in Roles, Resources & Dates (next 3 yrs)
                         Feedback and additions

2:30pm             Next steps
                                -   Progress measures MSU,
                                -   Email members Action Agenda for review and approval
                                -   Other suggestions or feedback on today?

Attachment A

Background Re-cap (How We Got to Here)

The Ingham GSC Strategic Planning Process, to date has included:
Collecting and reviewing the data indicators;
Prioritizing the data elements to graph and highlight in a report;
Writing the Ingham Community Status Report;
Developing one goal statement for each of the 5 component areas;
Organizing over 25 community conversations;
Presenting the Status Report and receiving community feedback and input on suggested strategies;
Transcribing the suggestions from the Community Conversations, and
Distilling this input into themes and strategies for each Goal area in preparation for the GSC Retreat. 

The plan for the Retreat is to review Strategies and Objectives for each of the Goals based on the community feedback themes and the expertise of the GSC members, and focus on identifying Resources Needed, Roles & Responsibilities, Target Dates and first next steps.  At the Retreat we may identify Progress Measures, but MSU has also agreed to help us develop and write up these parts after the Retreat.  Taken together this will be used to as our 3 year Strategic Plan or the Early Childhood Action Agenda for our community.

Attachment B

ECIC Instructions

VII.           Goals & Strategies

·      This section details the long term goals and specific strategies that the GSC is proposing to close the gap between the Great Start results and “current reality” in the community.
·      Goals are defined as general statements about what needs to be accomplished to address the major issues facing the community.
·      Strategies (approaches) are the broad, overarching efforts that will be undertaken to achieve the goals.
·      The timeframe for these goals and strategies is 3 years; the ECIC will be supporting Great Start Collaboratives to refine, review and update their Strategic Plans on a three year cycle.
·      Goals and strategies are expected for each component area as well as for the local early childhood system infrastructure.

 
VIII. Action Agenda

·      This section will detail, for each strategy:  Objectives, Resource Needs, Roles/Responsibilities, Target Dates, Progress Measures and Status.
·      An Objective is defined as a measurable step that will be taken to advance a Strategy within a specific timeframe.
·      The timeframe for Objectives is 3 years; the ECIC will be supporting Great Start Collaboratives to refine, review and update their Strategic Plans on a three year cycle.

Suggested format for Ingham GSC
(6 Sections - One section for each of 5 component Goals PLUS one for Infrastructure)

GOAL:

STRATEGY :