Collaborative Action

We convene, facilitate and support Action Teams to improve one or more of the population level outcomes on our Youth Outcome Dashboard. Right now, we are focused on improving our Kindergarten Readiness and Early Grade Reading outcomes.

Learn more about our forWORDS initiative here.

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IMPACT STORY

Action Team Impact: Early Literacy Convening 

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IMPACT STORY

Action Team Impact: Built Literacy Environments 

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Collaborative Action Priorities

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Collaborative Action Initiatives

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Community Engagement

  • Listen & learn from conversations with our community to identify priorities for Collaborative Action.

What is Collaborative Action?

Collaborative Action is one pillar of our work as a Partnership. It involves the staff of our Collective Impact Partnership who convene, facilitate and support Collaborative Action Teams to improve one or more of the population level outcomes on our Youth Outcome Dashboard, such as ensuring every child reads by 3rd grade.

What is an Action Team? A Collaborative Action Team is a group of individuals and organizations who are working together using a proven Collaborative Improvement Process to co-create solutions to the root causes of complex issues in our community. The goal is to explore a change that ripples across our community, such as change to policies, practices, or resource flows.

Right now, we are focused on improving our Kindergarten Readiness and Early Grade Reading outcomes through our forWORDS Initiative.

Action Teams focus on changing systems.

Systems can be tiny. For example, a family is a system. Systems can be organizations, like a school or healthcare system. Our Collaborative Improvement Approach is focused on the biggest, most complex systems — communities.

Systems change is about identifying bright spots and barriers in our community and then working to scale the bright spots and eliminate the barriers so that more children, families and individuals can thrive. Over time, this creates shifts to practices, policies, resources and power structures, which ultimately change how our community works together.

Six Conditions of Systems Change

Our Action Teams use the StriveTogether Collaborative Improvement process.

StriveTogether is a national network that partners with nearly 70 communities across the country, including Achieve Brown County, to provide coaching, resources and rigorous approaches to create opportunities and close gaps in education, housing and so much more. StriveTogether’s collaborative improvement methodology helps communities like ours work toward better outcomes for every child.

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