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2. Multiple Agencies Partner: Skip A Long - RI Head Start
Early Care & Education Program Collaboration Model Description
1. Model (Please check only one. Complete separate forms for different collaboration models.)
2. Collaboration Type (Check all that apply to this collaboration model.)
3. Partnership Initiated By
4. Demographics
5. Schedule
6. Number of Children Served Full-Day/Year by Location, Setting & Age
7. Total number of children served by organization
8. Total number of children served by partner’s organization (if applicable). Note: this means an early care & education partner with whom you are collaborating. Agencies that checked “One Agency, Multiple Funders” in question 1, page 1 of this survey will NOT complete this question.
9. Funding used to support full-day/year services (Check all that apply.)
10. Administration/Management (Check either yes, no or not applicable – NA – for each item.)
11. Has the collaboration had an impact on the partner’s internal practices with regard to (check yes or no for each item): (answering as Partner is Head Start – “No” meaning other than practices already required by Head Start Performance Standards, i.e., a-d & g-h below)
12. Program Services (Make 2 checks for each item – 1 to indicate which partner is primarily responsible for direct service delivery and the other to indicate which children receive that service – all or just the collaboration children.)
13. Primary objectives for beginning this collaboration (check all that apply)
14. Collaboration Development & Management
15. Program Components: Please answer the following questions about your collaboration program. Show in column 2 which partner is responsible for each program component. Check which children receive the program component in the last 2 columns - either all children in the classroom(s) or just the collaboration children.
Answer the following questions IN AS FEW WORDS as possible, still giving a picture of how your collaboration works. Use bullet point lists whenever possible. 16. List/describe any other program components included in the collaboration that are not described in items 12 and 15 (pages 3-4). None. We don’t even have all of those. 17. Please describe how budgeting and cost sharing among funding sources is done. How do you decide how costs will be shared? What are the financial arrangements between partners? Head Start decides what they want in their classroom in our building; they purchase; they unpack; they inventory. 18. Please explain how your collaboration is staffed. Include classroom and support staff and tell how this is changed/different from your regular program. Who funds the staff’s salaries? Who supervises the staff and who employs them? What salaries and benefits are offered collaboration staff and is this different from other staff? Head Start pays for and staffs two teachers from 8a.m. – 12noon. Skip-A-Long staffs and pays for teaching staff from 6 – 8 and 12 – 5:30 pm. Head Start supervises their personnel; Skip-A-Long supervises their staff; they are not integrated. Head Start staff are invited to Skip-A-Long meetings and do attend, if their schedules will allow. 19. Please tell about your written agreement, if you have one. Include: what the agreement covers (section titles); term (what the time period is); if finances are part of the agreement and how these were figured; etc. Contract only specifies facts, not how to, when, why, who. 20. Please describe the training system for your collaboration. Include what kind of training is done, how costs are shared among funding sources and/or partners, and how it has changed since the collaboration began. Head Start seems to have excellent training; they do make it available to Skip-A-Long child care staff, however, cannot close to attend so rarely are able to take advantage of shared training. 21. Please give any other details about your collaboration that you believe are important, but not covered elsewhere. 22. If you could start your collaboration over again, knowing what you know now, what would you do differently? Involve a committee of parents and concerned citizens to create a true collaboration, which would then result in a well fleshed out written document. 23. What advice do you have for agencies/homes starting new collaborations? Establish outcomes, policies and procedures, regular meetings, communicate freely and frequently. Copyright 2005 Collaboration Model Description. Template.
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