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Assessment Tools
Family Involvement
Lessons Learned
Additional Resources
Assessment Tools
- The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory: A a scale to assess a collaborative.
- Thinking Collaboratively: Ten Questions and Answers to Help Policy Makers Improve Children’s Services: Provides checklists to help assess key issues in establishing interagency initiatives, demonstration project and statewide reforms to foster collaboration.
- Partnership, Alliances and Coordination Techniques (PACT): Provides checklists for shaping partnerships and for assessing how partnerships are doing.
- Service and System Integration Matrix: A tool to assess and rate a partnership’s commitment, planning, training, leadership, resource sharing and communication.
Family Involvement
- Principles of Family Support: Established by the field to provide guidance to health, education, and human service systems and organizations to be more culturally competent, family-focused and strength-based
- Chap3/ChapIIIAttachment7.pdfInvolving Families in Early Childhood Systems Work
- Bringing the Local Community into the Process: Issues and Promising Practices for Involving Parents and Business in Local Smart Start Partnerships: This report describes finding from interviews and case studies about the involvement of parents and business leaders in the Smart Start decision-making process.
Lessons Learned
- Achieving Success in Collaboration: Foundation of Successful Collaborations
- Sharing the Stories: Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Smart Start: Background on local NC Smart Start partnership collaborative planning and lessons learned.
Additional Resources
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