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Selected 2004 CSC Work Highlights
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JUMP-STARTING EARLY CHILDHOOD
DEVELOPMENT
The new Tulsa County Partnership for Early Childhood Success and its JumpStart
Community Engagement Campaign gained state funding and part-time professional
staff, and created an ambitious work plan. JumpStart sponsored a very successful
“Ready, Set, Grow!” event on November 29 to celebrate Tulsa’s two new state of
the art Head Start early childhood centers and publicize the Georgetown
University study showing outstanding results from the Tulsa Public Schools four
year old program. Over 150 local and state leaders attended, as well as national
Head Start officials.
LAUNCHING CCRC’S NEW BOOKSTORE; PLANNING FOR NEW PROGRAMS
The Child Care Resource Center received a large inventory of children’s books and books for parents and child care providers, donated by Friends of Early Education (formerly Friends of Day Care) when it closed. CCRC opened an on-site early childhood bookstore in late fall of 2004. CCRC was selected as a pilot site for major new programs including “Mind in the Making” to enhance caregiver skills, and “Raising a Reader” to improve early literacy.
REDUCING INFANT MORTALITY, IMPROVING INFANT HEALTH
Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) conducted the first
Pregnancy Periods of Risk (PPOR) statewide study, with linked birth and death
data—finding that the leading cause of infant mortality was a woman’s health
status before and during pregnancy. Poor lifestyle, drug use, smoking, family
violence, and depression are the major contributors to unhealthy child bearing.
CSC successfully applied for and received one of only four federal women’s
health grants awarded in the nation to address mental health and domestic
violence issues impacting healthy birth outcomes.
ENHANCING EARLY INTERVENTION
The Tulsa Area Alliance on Disabilities initiated a study of
early intervention services for Tulsa-area children with special needs related
to health, education, and developmental disabilities. An Early Intervention Task
Force has examined different types of early intervention services available to
children ages 0-8 years of age, identifying gaps and overlaps in service
provision and the inability to access services due to social, cultural,
geographic or other barriers.
REPORTING ON ALLIANCE ON DISABILITIES PROGRESS;
ASSISTING IN NEW STUDY
In 2004, the Council completed a major 14-year retrospective
report on the Tulsa Area Alliance on Disabilities’ work to assure full community
participation for people with disabilities. Alliance staff and volunteers also
assisted in developing a proposal for a new community needs assessment on child
behavioral health. The proposal was prepared in cooperation with the Tulsa
System of Care Community Team, Associated Centers of Therapy, and the Oklahoma
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Work begins on the
study in December 2004.
PREVENTING HIV/AIDS
The Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership (TCAP) raised funds and
awarded $126,367 in new grant funding for 2004 to 15 Tulsa programs providing
HIV prevention and care services. New grants were awarded for HIV prevention
outreach targeting youth, women, Hispanics, high-risk men, persons living with
HIV/AIDS, and incarcerated populations.
ENHANCING DRUG/DUI COURTS
The Tulsa County Drug/DUI Court received a $25,000 Law Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG) for training for team members and incentives for participants in the adult court. Plans began in 2004 for initiation of an improved coordination process for the Juvenile Drug Court.
LAUNCHING SCHOOL-BASED CLINICS
Through leadership of former State Secretary of Health Tom
Adelson, Tulsa Public Schools Board member Gary
Percefull, state legislator Lucky Lamons, and Dr. Gerald Clancy and John Guadet
from the University of Oklahoma Medical School in Tulsa, the local Bedlam clinic
model was expanded to Mark Twain and Eugene Field elementary schools in
conjunction with the MHSC initiative, Tulsa Alliance for Families. The programs
began in early fall and currently serve almost all the enrolled students at each
school as well as many of their younger siblings. Plans are underway to expand
these model programs to other area elementary schools, including other area
school districts.
ADDRESSING DIVERSITY, PREVENTING YOUTH VIOLENCE
CSC’s East Tulsa Prevention Coalition (ETPC) worked to change youth attitudes around racism and intergroup violence by developing youth leaders among those often seen as the source of the problems. ETPC youth coordinated a Dance for Diversity event in February, recruiting students to perform dances from a variety of cultural groups, and a Youth Diversity Summit in April, a collaboration between ETPC Youth Committees at Union Alternative High School and East Central High School to encourage understanding among various cultural/ethnic groups. Mediation was promoted as an alternative to violence. In preparation, the youth took diversity training, prepared a skit on stereotypes, and learned about facilitating study circles. More than 60 students participated, including many who had been involved in the much publicized racial incidents at Union Intermediate High School.
ADVOCATING FOR KEY PUBLIC POLICY DECISIONS
CSC and the Metropolitan Human Services Commission (MHSC) successfully promoted passage of SQ 713, which increased the tax on tobacco to obtain additional state revenues to help address critical health needs. They also supported the allocation of $2 million in state funds for the new state and local early childhood partnerships.
DEVELOPING 2-1-1
The Oklahoma 2-1-1 Advisory Collaborative was created by
public and non-profit agencies throughout Oklahoma
to be the lead entity for developing 2-1-1 statewide. Governor Henry signed
legislation this year officially establishing the collaborative. CSC Associate
Director Jim Lyall was elected the group’s first chairman and a $75,000 grant
was secured from the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management to advance
2-1-1’s availability in Oklahoma. The Tulsa 2-1-1 Collaborative has
developed inter-agency memorandums of understanding and submitted a notice of
intent to establish a 2-1-1 call center during 2004 for Tulsa, Rogers, Creek,
Wagoner, Okmulgee and Osage counties. 2-1-1 Tulsa Helpline has been
positioned for operational readiness in 2004 by grant proposals, a brochure,
telephone company tariff proposals and challenges, inter-agency memorandums of
understanding, preparations for new technology, and other developments.
USING WEB TECHNOLOGY TO STREAMLINE INFORMATION SHARING
Sharelink is an information management system utilizing a sophisticated web-based application to improve service delivery by storing and sharing client records, health and human service information, and system reports. Sharelink is operated by the Tulsa City County Health Department and is HIPAA compliant. The Homeless Management Information System function of CSC has trained 89 end users (case managers, program managers, etc) at 7 different organizations. Over 800 clients being served at these seven agencies are now registered with Sharelink. The initiative is closely coordinated with the development of 2-1-1 Tulsa Helpline.
PLANNING FOR TRANSITIONS--THE TULSA VOLUNTEER CENTER
A Transition Team was established in February 2004 to move the TVC from being a program of CSC to becoming an independent non-profit organization by June 2005. During 2004, the team created a basic funding proposal that has helped obtain additional funds, bylaws for the new non-profit corporation, a strategic plan, and a marketing plan.
PREPARING YOUNG PEOPLE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY
The Tulsa Volunteer Center created a new “Kids in Action (KIA) Program” to increase youth involvement in community volunteering, through a number of innovative initiatives.
THANK YOU TO...
. All of the
Council Board Members and Advisors, for their leadership and guidance
. Everyone on the CSC staff, for their excellent work
. All of our community colleagues and partners, demonstrating that working
together works best
. The more than one hundred Friends of the Council, for their generous
support
. The Metropolitan Human Services Commission Partners, our state agency
funders,
and others, for helping to fund the Council’s many initiatives
benefiting the Tulsa community
. The Tulsa Area United Way, for its vital ongoing support for the Council
throughout our
sixty-three-year history
Download the 2004 Highlights Report as a pdf file;
to print, use legal size paper