1. First 5 Sonoma
County
Commission
Services Agreements
and Strategic Plan
Update
Alfredo Perez, Executive Director

2. Overarching Goal: School Readiness
1. Ensure Children’s
Health and Healthy
Development
2. Ensure Families
Are Supported and
Nurturing
3. Ensure that Early
Care and Education
(ECE) is High Quality
4. System Integration
&
5. Community Engagement

3. First 5 Programs
on the Upstream Portfolio
AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program
Nurse-Family Partnership
Triple P – Positive Parenting Program
CARES Plus
Pasitos℠ Playgroups
Reach Out and Read
WIC Dental Days
Gateway to Quality
READY
Teachers Acquiring Language Learner Knowledge (TALLK)
Value In Preschool
WHEEL Plus

4. The Result — A Safer,
Healthier Community
• Healthy Kids = 97% of children in
Sonoma County have health
insurance coverage
• Nurse Family Partnership = served 430
first time, high-risk, pregnant mothers
with 2.5 years of home visiting
• Investments in children’s oral health
clinics = 50% increase in pediatric
dental chairs in 2014
• WIC Dental Days = 10,000 children
provided preventive dental services
at WIC

5. The Result — A Safer,
Healthier Community
• Trained 500 service providers in
Triple P = provided 5,000 parents
with Triple P services
• CARES Plus = 200 early educators
have bachelor or master’s degrees in
early care and education
• Collaboration with DHS Behavioral
Health = system of early childhood
mental health, screened 3,600 children
for developmental delays and social-
emotional issues
• Read Talk Play = In 7th place of all County
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6. Strategic Planning
FY 15/16-17/18
• Recognized long-term revenue decline
• Developed Long-Term Financial Model to
maintain a 15% reserve of the prior year’s
revenue through 2020
• Re-prioritized established list
of strategic programs
• Developed new allocation plan that
aligns with Commission priorities

7. Allocation Plan
FY 15/16 to 17/18
• Long-Term Funding Model
 15% reserve through 2020
 3-year total of $12.9 million
• Strategic Planning Committee assessed
programs and established priority ratings:
1 = Highest priority
2 = Maintain with reductions if necessary
3 = Maintain if funding allows
4 = OK not to fund

8. Goal 1:
Health & Healthy Development
Redwood Community Health
Coalition—Healthy Kids Initiative
• $480,000
Early Learning Institute—
Watch Me Grow
• $480,000

9. Goal 2:
Families Supported & Nurturing
Triple P America
• $925,000
Community Action Partnership
for Pasitos℠ Playgroups
• $480,000

10. Goal 2:
Families Supported & Nurturing
AVANCE National
• $60,000
AVANCE Parent-Child Education
Program
• Community Action Partnership
• Sonoma Valley Education
Foundation
• Petaluma Adult School
• Totaling $1.35 million

11. Goal 3:
High Quality Early Care
and Education
Community Child Care Council—
Value in Preschool (VIP)
• $1.2 million
Community Child Care Council—
Quality Counts, Sonoma County’s
Quality Improvement Rating
System
• $384,379

12. Goal 3:
High Quality Early Care
and Education
Sonoma County Office of Education
—Teachers Acquiring Language
Learner Knowledge (TALLK)
• $408,000
Sonoma County Office of Education
—Gateway to Quality
• $50,000

13. Goal 3:
High Quality Early Care
and Education
Early Learning Institute—
Behavioral Consultation
Project
• $1.05 million
River to Coast Children’s
Services—Quality Counts,
Quality Improvement
Rating System
• $40,000

14. Community Action Partnership—
WIC Dental Days
• $100,000
Goal 4:
Integration of systems

15. Goal 4:
Building Organizational Capacity
• Persimmony data system
• Program evaluations
• Health Action
• Upstream Investments
• Move to network analysis
• Focus on impact
Systems Change Framework:

16. Goal 5: Engage the
Community to Support First 5 Goals
Triple P America
• $25,000
Santa Rosa Chamber of
Commerce for the Worksite Held
English Language Learning
(WHEEL)
• $216,000

17. Goal 5: Engage the
Community to Support First 5 Goals
First 5 Sonoma County Mini
and Matching Grant Fund
Program
• $200,000 per year
First 5 Sonoma County
Flexibility Grant Fund
Program
• $50,000 per year

18. Capacity Building for
Community Partners
Data Base: Persimmony
• $236,018
Evaluation:
Learning for Action
• $148,000

19. Leveraged Funding
$1.3 Million in FY 15-16 for
Community Partners & First 5
• Kaiser Child Health Plan
• United Way of the Wine Country
• Sonoma County Community
Foundation
• Sonoma Wine Country Weekend
• State Grants and other revenue

20. Expectations &
Opportunities
Declining First 5 revenues will be a
continuing reality
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21. Expectations &
Opportunities
Declining First 5 revenues will be a
continuing reality
• Align with collective impact initiatives:
Health Action, Cradle to Career, Upstream
Initiatives, Funder’s Circle
• Leverage Commission’s remaining resources
• Sustain by building partner capacity