Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google Plus Email WIIFSS - Western Integrated Intensive Family Support System About this InitiativeLocation: Adelaide, Australia, Australia and New Zealand Year Started: 2016 Social issue: Education and Youth, Employment / Workforce Development, Homelessness, Opportunity Youth / Disconnected Youth Initiative stage: Implementing and Sustaining Impact Initiative Purpose and Goals: Services in the Western Region work together in a transparent and responsive manner to achieve better outcomes for children and families Initiative website: https://i-nex.com.au/orps/index.html Collective Impact Elements in Place Common Agenda Continuous Communication Shared Measurement Backbone Support Mutually Reinforcing Activities Backbone Support Organizations serving in the Backbone Role Nnon-government organistion plays the backbone role Backbone structure The backbone is a funder based not for profit organistion. Ther governance strucutre is central to establishing and setting the direciton for the initaitive. Measures of Success Community Participation • # of co-design workshops delivered • # of attendees (disaggregated by CALD, ATSI) • # of Community Chat Cafes delivered • # of attendees (disaggregated by CALD, ATSI) Access to programs • # of registrations for programs across region • # of session delivered (disaggregated by type of group) Service System # of available programs disaggregated by service categories Approximate wait times Demand and capacity of programs across the service service system Time taken to respond to referral Population Measures (monitoring) Child Protection Notifications Young People not in employment or educaiton Employment (unemployment, under employment) Housing Tennures Australian Early Development Census *updates to come Initiative Activities and Milestones Activities Online Referral & Planning System: Preparing to launch (see link below) Most Effective Practice Model: Under development - codesign Child & Family Wellbeing network: Cordinated support Across agency intake assessment group Training: Child Mental Health Milestones Strucutre that connects and integrates shared decision making across community, government, and the NFP sector. Regular codesign workshops Creation of an Online Referral & Planning System (ORPS) - providing shared data for sector. Community Engagement and Advancing Equity Community Engagement Activities Local 'Community Chat Cafes' are convened to support local action networks to form around local issues. Ideas that require funding are communicated to the Community Impact Group. Local Council and the Backbone organistion provide the infrastrucutre to support applicaitons for funding, and ongoing facilitation for local action networks. The Community Impact Group and COmmunity Chat Cafes have been central to the design of the ORPS and working through an issue identifcation process and prototyping ideas. Activities to Advance Equity All data relating to referral activitiy, attendance at programs and local area networks are disaggregated by culture, disability and other indicators. Targeted approaches have been used to engage underrepresentative communities within the intiative. This has included connecting with local cultural groups, and selecting sites for Initiative Partners and Governance Contributing organizations NFPs Government (Local, State, Federal) Business (software developer) Sectors Engaged Nonprofit Public Sector Broader Community/People with Lived Experience Initiative governance Governance includes: Community Impact Group (Local Community Members) Steering Committee (Frontline government practitioenrs and NGOs) Policy Network (multiple reps from state and federal government department) Child & Family Wellbeing Network - Cross agency/NFP traiaging of family support and cordination Resources WIIFSS.pdf Discussions