Promise Neighborhoods Webinar: Building & Sustaining Data Capacity When Resources are Scarce

Please join the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) from 3:30pm – 4:30pm (ET) on Thursday, December 18 for a webinar focusing on building and sustaining data capacity in your Promise Neighborhood. Participants will hear about some of the challenges facing Promise Neighborhood communities in the planning phase as they work to build data capacity, as well as examples of strategies for addressing them. The webinar will help both data and program staff who are planning or beginning to implement a Promise Neighborhood or similar community change effort in thinking about how the capacity to collect and use data can be built and sustained over time. Participants are strongly encouraged to join the conversation by asking their own questions and sharing their insights on the challenges presented.

Questions to be addressed include:

•   What are some of the biggest challenges in building and sustaining data capacity?
•   What role can partners play in sustaining data capacity over the longer term?
•   How might you prioritize your work given limited resources?   

The scheduled presenters for this event include:

•  Lisa Curless
   Project Director, Adams County Promise Neighborhood (FY 12 Planning Grantee)

•  Tim Jackson
    Project Director, Ogden United Promise Neighborhood (FY 12 Planning Grantee)

•  Azenett Garza
   Data Management Director, Ogden United Promise Neighborhood;
   Community Research Coordinator, The Center for Community Engaged Learning of Weber State  
       University;
   Associate Professor of Psychology at Weber State University

This event, hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Policy with support from the U.S. Department of Education, is part of the training and technical assistance program designed for Promise Neighborhood grantees.

For complete details regarding this webinar, please visit here.

Creating Strategic and Accountable Partnerships in Your Promise Neighborhood

Please join the Center for the Study of Social Policy, from 12:30pm – 1:30pm (EDT) on Wednesday, December 3 for a webinar focusing on building strategic and accountable partnerships in your Promise Neighborhood. Participants will hear about the importance of creating partnerships that align with the Promise Neighborhood results as well as examples of how those partnerships can be built or strengthened. The webinar will help leaders who are planning or beginning to implement a Promise Neighborhood or similar community change effort in understanding key considerations to make when developing partnerships. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their insights.

Key questions to be addressed include: 

·         What does it mean for a partnership to be “strategic and accountable”?

·         How can you help partners to buy into the Promise Neighborhoods vision and results?

·         What might a process to begin engaging partners in a results-based way look like?

The scheduled presenters for this event include:

·         Beth Leeson, Senior Associate, Center for the Study of Social Policy

·         Caitlin Wolf, Director of Communications, Buffalo Promise Neighborhood

·         Mary Ellen Reilly, Director of Family-Centered Community Change, Buffalo Promise Neighborhood

For complete details, including registration information, please visit here.

This event, hosted by the Center for the Study of Social Policy with support from the U.S. Department of Education, is part of the training and technical assistance program designed for Promise Neighborhood grantees.

Center for the Study of Social Policy's 2013 Annual Report

The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is proud to release its 2013 annual report, focused on equity.

CSSP believes that all children – regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status or the neighborhood in which they live – deserve to be healthy, to enter school ready to learn and to become young adults who are prepared to succeed in life and in the world. Growing up in safe, supportive, nurturing and economically secure families and in communities that can provide them and their families with access to the resources and opportunities they need, puts all children on the path to success. Yet, good outcomes for children, families and communities can only be achieved if we're aware of, attuned to and have the knowledge and skills to tackle inequity.

Equity – equality in opportunity and in what it takes to achieve good outcomes – has been part of CSSP’s mission from its earliest days. Achieving equity in opportunity and outcomes is core to social and economic success. If the current disparities in education, health, employment and social and economic mobility continue we will lose the opportunity to capitalize on the advantages of our increasingly diverse population. To ensure the social and economic growth of our country – and to improve outcomes for our children and families – the public, private and nonprofit sectors must advance equity at every level. 

The 2013 annual report highlights how critical attention to equity and the persistent gaps in achievement and outcomes shows up in all of CSSP’s work. Whether working with a public system, a federal policymaker or in a local community, CSSP examines the issues with an equity perspective and articulates policy and program solutions that seek to close the gaps and produce better results for all.

Want to learn more about CSSP’s efforts to advance equity? Check out the 2013 annual report.