This document outlines the agenda and desired outcomes of a learning collaborative aimed at reducing adversity for young children through a resiliency framework. The agenda includes affirming a vision, identifying barriers, prioritizing issues, and developing solutions. Key desired outcomes are agreeing on priorities, understanding challenges to resiliency work, engaging missing stakeholders, and aligning strategies. The document describes stages of analyzing challenges, prioritizing issues, and developing proposals for action to address upstream root causes of adversity. It concludes by discussing next steps of agreeing on a shared vision and ideal future state, and then implementing solutions.

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RESILIENCY IN ACTION
Designing Pathways to Action
Reducing Adversity in the Lives of Very Young Children
Facilitated by
Frank Robinson, PhD
Executive Director
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AGENDA
AGENDA
Purpose of the learning collaborative
Future State for Resiliency-based Work with
Springfield Families
Review and Upgrade Barriers and Challenges
Organize Issues
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Prioritize and/or Rank Issues
Develop Solutions
Next Steps
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DESIRED OUTCOMES
• Success means that by the end of the day we
will have to….
– Affirm the vision for the learning collaborative
– Agree on priorities for the learning collaborative
– Develop a shared understanding of the barriers and challenges to a
resiliency framework
– Develop an appreciation and understanding of why a “system
approach” is needed for this work
– Identify missing people and organizations, and figure out how to
engage them in this work
– Identify and align strategies across organizations and sectors to sustain
the work we begin
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VISION TO PROBLEM TO SOLUTION
Pathway to Action
Pathway
Design
Vision
Problem
Solution Implementation
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STAGES OF PRIORITY SETTING
New and upgraded
ideas, opinions, and
information.
Organize,
prioritize
or rank
issues
Develop
Proposals
for Action
Open, Narrow, Close – As a Priority Setting Framework
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“ANALYZING BOULDERS AND BUILDING BRIDGES”
• System Approach (Iceberg metaphor)
– Tip of the Iceberg
• Event
– See and name the situation, event, or activity
– Below the Water Level
• Patterns
– Identify trends or continuous patterns
• Underlying Structure
– Relationships the parts and causes of the patterns
• Mental Models
– Deeply held assumptions about the world that drives the behavior of
people, and institutions
• Cultural and Institutional Values
– Core beliefs and values embedded in our culture and institutions
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ISOLATEDEVENTS
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IncreasingLeverage
BARRIERS AN CHALLENGES TO RESILIENCY-BASED
APPROACHES FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN
(INFANTS - 8 YEARS OLD)
Event
Patterns
Underlying Structures
Mental Models
Cultural and Institutional Values
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Intentional
Violence
THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
DOWNSTREAM AND/OR MICRO LEVEL ISSUES
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PERSONAL & SITUATIONAL
ISSUES
SOCIAL SUPPORT &
SOCIAL NETWORKS
SURFACE MEANING
DEEPER MEANING
INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE, INDIVIDUAL
RESPONSES AND BEHAVIORS, THINKING,
REASONING, DECISION-MAKING, LOGIC,
ATTENTION, PERCEPTION
FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTH & WELL
BEING: ENVIRONMENT, WORKING
CONDITIONS, ECONOMY, EDUCATION,
CULTURE, AND HEALTH SYSTEMS.
Misinformation
about Risk Factors
Relationships between
Parents & Children
Education for parents
and children
Education about Available
Support Resources
Nurturing & Coping Skills
Function of Institutions -
Educational, Social, and Civic
Internalized Oppression
and Internalized Racism
Community
Organization
Poverty
Poverty and
Work Ethics
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DOWNSTREAM ISSUES
ROOT CAUSE / EQUITY ISSUES
ABOVE THE LINE
BELOW THE LINE
= PROGRAM, POLICES, AND PRACTICES
THAT MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE
INDIVIDUAL’S DEFAULT DECISIONS TO BE
HEALTHIER
= MISSING OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURE:
HOME, COMMUNITY, SCHOOL, WORK;
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Access
Coordinated and Accessible
Services
Constant Communication
to Al Parties
Health Disparities
Efficient Resource Utilization
Relationships between Providers
Structural Issues
(Time, place, cost of services)
Default Assumptions
(Stereotyping -
‘Deserving & Undeserving Poor”)
Cultural and Institutional
Values (racism, homophobic
Attitudes)
THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
UPSTREAM AND/OR MACRO LEVEL ISSUES
Poverty
Relationships Between Providers and Parents
(authentic power sharing)
One Stop
Services
Service Gaps & Unmet Needs
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PRIORITY SETTING
• Proposals for Action
– Review and confirm the results of the iceberg
exercise – new and upgraded ideas, opinions, and
information.
– Organize the information for better understanding
– Evaluate and prioritize or rank results
– Select possible proposals
– Secure agreement on how to proceed
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DIMENSIONS OF SUCCESS
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DIMENSIONS OF SUCCESS
• Process
– Affirm proposals with all stakeholders
– Agree on how the work will get done – designed,
managed, monitored, and evaluated
• Results
– Agree on the tasks for completing the work
– Agreement on the results
• Relationships
– Network Organizing and Team Building
Shared Responsibility
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VISION TO PROBLEM TO SOLUTION PATHWAY
• Next Steps (July & August)
– Agreement on an image of the ideal future state
• Solicit a variety of views
• Develop a vision of how new approaches will benefit
children and families
– Create a visual image
• Identify the problems that need to be addressed and the
assets that can be used in order to reach the vision
– Build and agreement on the ideal future state
• Implementation (September)
– Agree on solutions
Taking It Home
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