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Our Children, Our Families council outlines 19-measure outcomes framework and data-sharing plan for San Francisco youth
Summary
The city'county-school council created by Proposition C presented a 19-measure outcomes framework, proposed five-year targets, a legal/technical data-sharing MOU and initial Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding to coordinate services for children and families.
Representatives of Our Children, Our Families (OCOF) briefed the San Francisco Unified School District Board on May 9 about the council's outcomes framework, equity lens and a data-sharing initiative aimed at aligning city and school services for children ages 0—24.
Laurie Scalari, director of the OCOF staff, summarized the council's mandate under Proposition C and reviewed five overarching goals for children and families: safe and nurturing environments; economic security and housing stability; physical and mental health; 21st-century learning readiness; and success in postsecondary or career paths. The framework breaks those goals into 19 measures. Scalari said the council will set five-year targets for each measure and conduct a community engagement process before finalizing targets at a fall council meeting.
Simone Combs, a senior analyst for OCOF, said the council has begun monthly data-analysis working groups and proposed an illustrative draft target for child maltreatment of 2.5 incidences per 1,000 children. Combs said the council is working with practitioners and analysts across city agencies to refine targets, and that the council will present draft targets at its next meeting on June 1 before community engagement and final approval this fall.
OCOF staff also described a two-track legal and technology approach to a mandatory data-sharing project designed to improve case management and policy planning between the city and school district. Combs said the initiative has $100,000 in seed funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support early work and that the council plans an MOU addressing legal and privacy issues targeted for June 2018 completion.
The presentation included an online activity guide for families that the staff said has ingested over 2,000 activities; the guide recorded about 904 visitors and 18,351 page views during an early rollout period cited in the presentation. Scalari said the council is building a searchable, citywide inventory of publicly funded services aligned to the framework and will publish a landscape map to identify gaps and redundancies by late summer.
Commissioners thanked presenters for the equity-focused framework and asked about alignment with the Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF) RFP process and funding. OCOF staff said DCYF has realigned its goals with the OCOF framework and that coordinated services work is ongoing to map services and identify fiscal priorities.
