1 Help Me Grow Technical Assistance For Help

1 Help Me Grow Technical Assistance For Help Me Grow Texas Communities September 9, 2020 Presented By Sarah Zucker Senior Program Specialist Help Me Grow National Center

2 Today’s Agenda

3 Today’s Agenda 1. Welcome 2. Local HMG efforts lead towards statewide expansion in TX 3. Introductions 4. General timeline 5. Description of our Help Me Grow TA tools and projects 6. Introduction to HMG affiliate resources 7. Next steps 8. Discussion HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

4 Expanding Local HMG Efforts in TX

5 Introductions

6 Introductions Share a hope you may have for this TA or a question that feels particularly important to answer as you embark on Help Me Grow implementation. 1. Easterseals Rio Grande Valley 2. United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County 3. United Way for Greater Austin 4. Paso del Norte Children's Development Center 5. North Texas Area United Way 6. MHMR HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

7 Timeline

8 Timeline HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG ! T F A DR

9 Our Technical Assistance Projects

10 Technical Assistance • Every-other-month TA sessions • Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Team structure and decision making theory • Help ME Grow Readiness Assessment • One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts • Model Implementation Community of Practice participation HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

11 Technical Assistance Every-other-month TA sessions • Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Team structure and decision making theory • Help Me Grow Readiness Assessment • One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts • Model Implementation Community of Practice participation HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

12 Technical Assistance Every-other-month TA sessions HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

13 Technical Assistance Every-other-month TA sessions • Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Team structure and decision making theory • Help Me Grow Readiness Assessment • One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts • Model Implementation Community of Practice participation HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

Technical Assistance Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Presents a sequential description of the system model, including all requisite steps to exploring, planning, and implementing the fundamental activities related to each of the four HMG Core Components • Helps guide efforts from the beginning stages of exploration through full implementation • Can be used for project management; set timelines & track progress • Can be used to communicate to broad stakeholder audiences the anticipated timelines for major milestones HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG 14

15 Technical Assistance Every-other-month TA sessions • Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Team structure and decision making theory • Help Me Grow Readiness Assessment • One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts • Model Implementation Community of Practice participation HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

16 Technical Assistance Every-other-month TA sessions • Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Team structure and decision making theory • Help Me Grow Readiness Assessment • One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts • Model Implementation Community of Practice participation HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

17 Technical Assistance Help Me Grow Readiness Assessment • Outlines the pieces already in place that may be able to satisfy, align with, or provide a jumping off point in efforts to implement the HMG Core Components • Tools to guide exploration of Core Component cooperation • A reporting mechanism to document and formally communicate final strategy recommendations • Critical to ensure the right voices contribute HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

18 Technical Assistance Every-other-month TA sessions • Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Team structure and decision making theory • Help Me Grow Readiness Assessment • One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts • Model Implementation Community of Practice participation HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

19 Technical Assistance One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts HMG affiliates with advanced implementations and other national partners serving as an expanded bench of HMG National TA providers. Focusing on each Core Component, funding and sustainability, spread and scale, and more TX communities will choose one HMG Implementation Expert and help to shape the scope of the conversation to best serve most pressing needs/challenges/questions HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

20 Technical Assistance Every-other-month TA sessions • Help Me Grow Roadmap to Implementation • Team structure and decision making theory • Help Me Grow Readiness Assessment • One-on-one TA sessions with HMG Implementation Experts • Model Implementation Community of Practice participation HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

21 Technical Assistance Model Implementation Community of Practice participation • Community of Practice (Co. P) serves as a critical hub of information exchange on the HMG Core Components and their associated Key Activities, various ways in which these have been implemented in Affiliate states and communities across the HMG National Network, and approaches to refine and improve HMG efforts once operational. • Members help direct content via Learning Interests Assessment • End of every HMG TA month • September 29, 12 pm EST: Developing Referral Pathways to the HMG Centralized Access Point HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

22 Help Me Grow Affiliate Resources

HMG Affiliate Resources • Affiliate dashboard • Use of the HMG logo and tagline • Building Capacity webinars for the National Affiliate Network • Co. P participation • Sharing and exchange with other affiliates HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG 23

Next Steps

25 Next Steps HMG National Center Texas Communities Get logos developed Consider you community’s name for your HMG logo Grant access to affiliate dashboard Make sure you have access to the HMG affiliate dashboard, get in touch if you don’t Leads – grant access to the affiliate dashboard to your full team and any partners Send September BEMI Session reminder Register for September BEMI session Schedule November TA session: Team structure and decision making theory For next TA session in November, consider the following: Who/which agencies needs to be at the planning table in order to implement the Model successfully? Who needs to be involved in what role/capacity? Do you have key decision-makers involved? HELPMEGROWNATIONAL. ORG

26 Discussion

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