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March 14, 2002

In the fall of 2001 the Family and Community Trust (FACT), working with staff from Governor Holden’s Office, community partnerships, and state agencies, focused on several strategic priorities for the Caring Communities initiative. These cohesive and comprehensive efforts were designed to strengthen our statewide Caring Communities work, and enable us to do a better job of serving Missouri’s families and children.

Improving the way that Caring Communities Partnerships track, measure and report their results; reevaluating our roles and responsibilities and clearly defining our accountability; and implementing performance-based contract negotiations between the State and the partnerships, were issues of paramount importance to us.

The enclosed “Results Report” is one of the outcomes of our team’s efforts. Reports like the examples contained here will be used by each of our community partners to demonstrate their progress in the areas they have chosen to target for improvement, and to highlight the “lessons learned” as each tries to effect positive change. Each of the community reports also includes a Community Report that describes their partnership and provides a context for the report.

At the beginning of each report there is reference to “Core Results” and “Benchmarks.” Every Caring Communities Partnership uses data from the State to develop strategies for achieving better results for families and children in one or more of six designated core areas:

• Parents working
• Children safe in their families and families safe in their communities
• Children and families healthy
• Children ready to enter school
• Children and youth succeeding in school
• Youth ready to enter the workforce and become productive citizens.

 

Benchmarks measure their achievement in these core results.

Once its priorities are decided upon and the target population identified, the Community Partnership sets an interim objective for 2-5 years into the future. Using best practices and innovative ideas, the partnership collaborates with local and state partners to develop a community-wide strategy designed to achieve their objective.

The past year has been an exciting one for FACT and our state and community partners. We’ve worked hard and grappled with some very tough issues. This work has, however, helped us to rise above any differences and reach consensus, always staying focused on the mission of improving the quality of life for children and families in Missouri.