Transforming Together: Implementation Guide
Resources for Implementation Supporting Systems Change—What this Guide Provides The Transforming Together Implementation Guide captures the framework and implementation steps necessary to realize the recommendations of the 2023 CYBHI Ecosystem Working Paper. An ecosystem is more than a network — it is a living, coordinated system where schools, health providers, social services, juvenile justice, communities and other child serving agencies work seamlessly together so that any door a young person or their family walks through becomes the right door to access the care, supports, and opportunities they need to thrive. The Guide and its resources are designed for county leaders, managers, and community partners who are: • Participating in existing cross-agency programs, committees, or teams; • Leading or staffing cross-agency efforts; or • Seeking help and ideas to initiate or grow effective agency collaboration. It provides practical resources, templates, and lessons—including how to navigate inevitable challenges—drawn from diverse counties and cities across California. Importantly, the current work in education systems to scale community schools—a California priority—should both provoke and inform county plans for collaboration. All county leaders who help manage programs and services for child and family wellbeing, and not just education leaders, can use these resources and ideas across systems.
Four Chapters The Guide offers support to counties in four chapters: 1. Building Shared Leadership; 2. Developing Shared Goals; 3. Realizing a Shared Service Array and Workforce Development; 4. Putting in Place the Conditions for Sustainability, including Financing, Continuous Quality Improvement and Shared Information The Opportunity This Guide and its resources can help county agencies refocus on whole-child ecosystems that together support whole-child outcomes. This creates avenues for county leaders to minimize duplication, meet needs earlier, and direct scarce resources to where they will have the most impact. Change of this scale requires persistence, trust-building, and navigating setbacks as well as successes. But it is achievable. Progress in counties already moving this way shows what’s possible: Results greater than the sum of their parts.
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