4. The Goal Child, Family & Community
Well-Being
is defined as an umbrella concept
that refers to all aspects of a person's
life, including physical health;
psychological well-being; social well-
being; financial well-being; family
relationships; friendships; work;
leisure and the like.
Child,Family & Population Level Results
•The population level end-goal
Community condition we want for all children
Well-Being and families
•Cannot be achieved by any one
agency, organization, group or
individual; requires collective
action
•E.g. All Babies are Born Healthy
Indicators
•Measurable
•Powerful
•Quantifies progress towards the
result
•E.g. The rate or percentage of low-
weight births
5. What our work influences Protective & Promotive
Factors
Characteristics or conditions that
increase well-being or serve as
buffers against risk
Building Individual – experience a range adults
Opportunities
Protective & with appropriate expectations about
Connections to economic
Promotive child behavior
opportunities, effective and
Factors Family – parents have knowledge of
responsive services, and
child development
informal supports
Community – community support for
accurate information about child
Individual – school that
development
identifies and responds to
student needs
Family – school that help
families be the children’s first
teacher
Community – high
performing schools
Creating Reducing
Opportunities Risk Factors
Risk Factors
Characteristics or conditions that increase the likelihood of
an outcome or a set of outcomes (usually negative)
Individual - biomedical issues
Family – parental conflict
Community – violent neighborhoods
6. Capacity That Helps Create and Sustain Access to
Opportunity, Decrease Risk Factors, and Increase Protective
Factors
Community Capacities System Capacities Policy Capacities
Use of Data for Learning and Use of Data for Learning and Use of Data for Learning and
Accountability Accountability Accountability
Resident Leadership Leadership Leadership
An Organized Community Engaged Management and Organization
Staff
The Ability to Develop Powerful The Ability to Develop
Strategies to Improve Results The Ability to Develop Powerful Strategies to
Powerful Strategies to Improve Results
Effective Partnerships Improve Results
Effective Partnerships
Communications Effective Partnerships
Communications
Policy Advocacy Communications
Policy Oversight
Financing Policy Support
Financing
Financing
7. Levers for our work …and lenses
Race Equity: Race or
ethnicity does not act as the
Community
Ecological most powerful predictor of Systems
Change
Perspective: The how one fares. This includes Change
complex interplay elimination of
between policies, practices, attitudes
child, family, comm and cultural messages that
unity, system and reinforce differential
society. outcomes by race or fail to
eliminate them.
Results-based
Social Justice. The fair
Analysis: A way of distribution of
securing strategic
advantages, assets, and
change by moving benefits among all members
away from a focus on of a society.
process towards
making better
Co-invested Constituents:
outcomes the
Constituents are authentic
primary purpose.
partners in the design, delivery
and implementation of direct
services, policy and systems
change.
Policy
Change
8.
9. Children are Healthy Indicators:
CSSP Child, Family & •Percent/Number of Low Weight Births
•Percent/Number of Children Receiving Developmental Screening
Community during Health Care Visit (5mos – 10yrs)
Well-Being Results •Percent/Number of Mothers Receiving Prenatal Care in the First
Trimester
•Children are healthy •Percent/Number of Overweight and Obese Children
•Children enter school ready to Children Enter School Ready to Learn and are Prepared to Succeed
learn and are prepared to succeed Indicators:
•Percent/Number of children ready for school at entry
•Percent/Number of children read to by their families
•Youth are prepared to succeed as •Percent/Number of children aged 3-5 not enrolled in nursery school,
preschool, or kindergarten
adults •Percent/Number of 4th grade students reading at proficient levels
•Children grow up in Youth are Prepared to Succeed as Adults Indicators:
safe, supportive and economically •Percent/Number of children scoring proficiently on 8th grade tests
•Percent/Number of students who graduate high school
successful families •Percent/Number of youth aged 16-19 who are not in school and not
high school graduates
•Rates of births to teens
•Communities have the resources •Percent/Number of volunteerism among youth
and opportunities families need to •Percent/Number of youth reporting feeling sadness/hopelessness in
past 2 weeks
succeed •Percent/Number of adults with a post-secondary degree or credential
Children Grow up in Safe, Supportive and Economically
Successful Families Indicators:
Communities Have the Resources and
•Rates of child abuse and neglect
Opportunities Families Need to Succeed
•Rates of substance abuse
Indicators:
•Percent/Number of children who eat meals together, who have rules
•Percent/Number of participation in volunteerism or
regarding TV, where parents read to the child, and where there is good
community service
parent- child communication
•Percent/Number of registered voters that vote
•Percent/Number of families with children living in unsafe, unstable or
•Percent/Number of persons incarcerated
overcrowded housing
•Percent/Number of families living above 200% of the poverty threshold
10. CSSP Child and Family
Well-Being Results
•Children are healthy
•Children enter school ready to
learn and are prepared to
succeed
•Youth are prepared to succeed
as adults
•Children grow up in safe,
supportive and economically
successful families
•Communities have the
resources and opportunities
families need to succeed
CSSP Child, Family and Community Well-Being Framework
