Transforming Together: Implementation Guide
Appendix: Outputs & Outcomes Framework The Transforming Together (T2) initiative builds on and integrates outcomes from multiple frameworks: the Ecosystem Working Paper (EcoPaper), California’s System of Care (SOC), the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI), and the California Community Schools Partnership Program (CCSPP). To track progress consistently across counties, these frameworks have been synthesized into a single crosswalk of outputs (concrete actions or milestones) and outcomes (longer-term changes and impacts). This crosswalk (linked here) is not simply a reference table. It is intended to: • Provide a shared language for measuring success across diverse initiatives. • Anchor T2 in collective impact methodology, ensuring progress can be monitored across counties and at the state level. • Support alignment and reduce duplication, helping state and county leaders identify shared priorities, clarify how each initiative contributes to whole-child and whole-family outcomes, and track where additional investment may be needed.
Community Schools The community schools model rests on a simple insight: When schools address academic, social, emotional, and health needs together, they create conditions for stronger learning. This whole-child approach posits schools as central to both learning and community wellbeing. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, educators and policymakers refined the model, including distilling its core features into four key community schools pillars: • Integrated student supports • Extended learning time and opportunities • Family and community engagement • Collaborative leadership and practices Evidence shows community schools boost achievement, attendance, and parent engagement while also improving access to health and social services, reducing disciplinary actions, and strengthening school climate.
Across these approaches, outcomes improve more consistently and at greater scale when agencies work together with fidelity to shared principles.
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