2012 Review Growing Up Great Network February 2013.

2012 Review Growing Up Great Network

February 2013

Critical Hours – 2012 Critical Hours – 2012 formed working group of

key stakeholder groupssecured funding from

Healthy Communities Grant for literature review and mapping of critical hours programs

hosted forum to develop action strategy and garner support for city-wide policy for space

participated in CDF forum

Critical Hours – 2013 Action Critical Hours – 2013 Action Plan Plan Creating Urgency

◦Connecting Access to Meeting/Programming Space to community issues such as mental health promotion, school achievement and engagement, healthy outcomes

Build and leverage connections with Community Development Framework city-wide policy for equitable space for vulnerable populations

Select indicator to measure progress and status

Mapped data to link organizations and enhance service/planning collaboration

Statement on critical hours programs for children and youth 9-14yrs

School Readiness-2012School Readiness-2012formed school readiness task

group secured grant through Best Start

Ottawa for Red Flags workshopcreated relationships with

OCDSB full day learning team in regards to early identification in schools

surveyed early years sector on utilization of NDDS tool

Conducted Ready for Life, Ready to Learn literature review

Linked with Centretown Community Health Centre on their EDI Action plan

School Readiness – 2013 School Readiness – 2013 Professional Training on NDDS –

working towards distribution at points of intake

Ready for Life, Ready to Learn statement

Common Communication on components of school readiness

Collective Voice for Child and Collective Voice for Child and Youth Sector - 2012Youth Sector - 2012hosted Advocacy Session

for Network members to increase understanding of and capacity for advocacy and government relations skills

developed a transparent and open process to respond to advocacy requests

formed committee to review advocacy issues and help shape key messages

coordinated and hosted 2012 Growing Up Great Awards luncheon

Collective Voice for Child and Collective Voice for Child and Youth Sector - 2013Youth Sector - 2013Develop website section which

will highlight advocacy tools and campaigns

Continue to review and respond to advocacy requests

Coordinated Community Parenting Support strategy – host forum to explore opportunities

Research into Action - Research into Action - 2012 2012 acted as advisory body for

EDI report expanded membership of

task group to represent key organizations and agencies involved in data and research in the city

hosted preliminary forum on data-sharing and indicators

reviewed existing middle development tools and drafted MDI communication on importance of tool

Research into Action -Research into Action -20132013Continue as Advisory body for local EDI

reportPosition statement on importance of EDI in

the community Sharing and accessing data strategy and

platform Work towards common measure – common

indicatorsCommon program information and

evaluation strategyShare best practices and reports Host one-day event on indicators for region