Roles
of the State Action Team include:
- Bringing
state and local information, evidence-based research
and best practices, and federal expectations/trends
including mandates and priorities to participants
of WECCP.
- Bringing
information, experience and identification of statewide
trends and issues to the Department Secretaries, State
Superintendent, the Governors Office, Federal Partner
Agencies and Statewide Organizations.
- Synthesizing
local information, best practices, and recommendations
from regional teams to inform state level priorities,
policy and evidence-based practices.
- Supporting
and promoting communities in the development of a
collaborative approach to service delivery for young
children and their families.
- Working
in collaboration to align efforts, initiatives, grant
programs and consistent child and family-centered
policies across systems.
- Identifying
and promoting evidence-based practice and new research
literature that supports state and local programming.
- Sharing
information with their organizations and constituencies.
The
State Action Team utilizes a steering committee to guide
direction, priorities, and work plans and is comprised
of representatives of the state departments of Health
and Family Service, Public Instruction, and Workforce
Development and each of the early childhood components
of mental health, parent education, family support,
medical home, as well as care and education.
Roles
of the Steering Committee are to:
- Act
as identified "leaders" for the State Action
Team
- Develop
agendas for State Action Team meetings
- Oversee
implementation of State level support mechanisms
- Share
information within WECCP and among the State Action
Team
- Assure
communication and networking within the defined structure
- Oversee
development and use of supporting materials
- Monitor
and promote implementation of work plan
- Promote
mechanism to enhance the effectiveness of the regional
teams
Steering
Committee members demonstrate state level commit to
the structure by committing state staff time and designating
programmatic responsibility for participation, direct
funding, resource allocation, and other means to support
implementation of work plans including:
- Maintaining
communication and network structures
- Funding
Community Collaboration Coaches to facilitate and
support regional teams and networks
- Providing
Mini-grants to each region to assist in the implementation
of their efforts
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The
State Action Team is comprised of representatives from
the areas of early care and education, health, mental
health, parent education and family support. New representatives
may be added as appropriate. The State Action Team currently
includes representatives from the following agencies:
- Child
Health Alliance of Wisconsin
- Child
Care Resource and Referral Network
- Child
Care Information Center
- Children's
Service Society of Wisconsin
- Children's
Trust Fund
- Community
Action Program (CAP)
- Great
Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (GLITC)
- Parents
Plus of Wisconsin
- Regional
Action Teams
- The
Registry
- UW
Extension
- UW
System
- Waisman
Center Professional Development Project
- WI
Association of Nonpublic Schools
- WI
Child Care Improvement Project
- WI
Council on Children and Families
- WI
Early Childhood Association
- WI
Education Association Council
- WI
Head Start State Collaboration Office
- WI
Head Start Association
- WI
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association
- WI
Technical College System
- WI
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association
- WI
Dept. of Health and Family Services: Birth to 3 Program
- WI
Dept. of Health and Family Services: Child Care Licensing
- WI
Dept. of Health and Family Services: Maternal Child
Health
- WI
Dept. of Health and Family Services: Maternal Child
Health
- WI
Dept. of Health and Family Services: Children with
Special Health Care Needs State Programs
- WI
Dept. of Public Instruction: Early Childhood
- WI
Dept. of Public Instruction: Early Childhood Special
Education
- WI
Dept. of Workforce Development: Child Care Section
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