In the latest webinar in the Using What Works series highlighting tools of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Evidence2Success framework, experts described the components of a strategic financing plan for programs proven to work for children and families and new financing approaches being adopted around the country.

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2. Today’s Presenters
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Thaddeus
Ferber,
The Forum
for Youth
Investment
(Host and
moderator)
Ayo
Atterberry,
The Annie
E. Casey
Foundation
Margaret
Flynn-
Khan,
Mainspring
Consulting
Rebecca
Boxx,
Providence
Children
and Youth
Cabinet
Elizabeth
Gaines,
The Forum
for Youth
Investment

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4. Evidence2Success
and Strategic Financing
Ayo Atterberry
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5. The Annie E. Casey Foundation
develops solutions to
build a brighter future for
children, families
and communities.
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6. Governance
structure
including public
systems and
community
Strategic use of
data
Comprehensive
financing
strategies
Implementation
of tested,
effective
programs
Performance
measures
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The Evidence2Success Framework
Build public systems’ capacity to partner with
communities to implement evidence-based programs
and practices through use of the Evidence2Success
framework

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The Evidence2Success Process
Youth
Experience
Survey
Fund-
Mapping Tool
and
Financing
Strategies
Blueprints
Database of
Evidence-
Based
programs
Implemen-
tation
Dashboard

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Previous Webinars
Preventing Problems Before They Start (April 28)
Concepts of Prevention Science and Finding Proven Programs
Listen to the recording: http://www.aecf.org/blog/webinar-recording-experts-prescribe-
prevention-science-to-keep-kids-on-right-path/
Identifying Community Priorities (July 21)
Gathering data from the Youth Experience Survey and working together to choose priority
outcomes
Listen to the recording: http://www.aecf.org/blog/recorded-webinar-available-identifying-
community-priorities-for-child-well-being/
The Using What Works Webinar Series

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Q.Have you attempted any of the following? Select
all that apply.
A. Putting together a children’s budget or fiscal map
B. Drafting a comprehensive financing plan
C. Blending or braiding funding to support new approaches
D. Creating a dedicated funding stream that invests in evidence
E. Funding evaluations of programs
F. Investing in evidence-based programs
G. None of the above
Answer in the polling area to the right.
Answer the Poll!

10. Investing Smarter
For Greater Returns
Margaret Flynn-Khan
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11. • Build public agency and community capacity to make
investment decisions based on well-being data and
evidence of what works
• Shift investments so that more funding is invested in
tested, effective programs
• Shift investments from remedial interventions toward
prevention services
• Support more coordinated investments in shared
priorities
• Scale up and sustain partnership infrastructure and
programs
Investing Smarter for Greater Returns
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12. How Do You Invest Smarter for Greater Returns?
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$54,890,000 annual
spending for children
and families in one
community
Program Total
Investment
(per year)
Incredible Years
BASIC
$127,386
Promoting Alternative
Thinking Strategies
$50,773
(for 3 years)
Life Skills Training $14,280
Functional Family
Therapy (FFT)
$287,100
Nurse Family
Partnership (NFP)
$103,631
(for 2 years)
Total shift in
spending $583,170
Redirect 1 percent to
proven programs

13. • Guide to completing steps in developing a
collaborative strategic finance plan
• Piloted in Evidence2Success sites ─ Providence,
Selma, Mobile and Salt Lake County
• One component of broader engagement process and
set of tools in Evidence2Success
• Most appropriate for cross-sector partnerships
focused on achieving shared outcome goals
• Foundation for ongoing work to align resources in
dynamic funding environment
Finance Toolkit: Background and Purpose
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14. Developing a Strategic Financing Plan
What are your
financing goals?
What resources do
you have?
What financial
resources do you
need?
What financing
strategies will
support your goals?
How will you work
together to secure
needed resources?
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15. Developing a Strategic Financing Plan
What are your
financing goals?
• Use data to agree on priority
outcomes and programs
• Identify infrastructure needed to
support priority programs
• Set specific scale goals based
on data on eligible population
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16. Developing a Strategic Financing Plan
What financial
resources do
you need?
• Three-year budget estimates
for programs and
infrastructure
• Start-up and ongoing costs
• Purveyor start-up and
ongoing fees
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17. Developing a Strategic Financing Plan
What
resources do
you have?
• Review current investments in
families and children
─ How do investments align with priority
outcomes?
─ How much is invested in prevention
versus remediation?
─ To what extent are investments
supporting proven programs?
─ How do costs per participant compare
to known evidence-based alternatives?
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What would it cost to reduce risk and improve outcomes?
Review of Current Investment Example
If 43 youth (15 percent)
currently served in group homes
were moved to treatment foster
care…
You would reduce
spending on group
homes by $2.3 million
• Provide 43 youth with proven therapeutic foster care
• Invest in a portfolio of prevention programs for children and families
43 youth X $266 per day X 200 days per year = $2.3 million

19. Example: What could $2.3 million buy in
proven programs for youth?
Target
Group
Eligible
Pop
Outcomes Program Unit Cost Total
Investment
(per year)
Return on
Investment (per
dollar spent)
0 - 12 1,129
Urban
Core
Reduced child
maltreatment, conduct
problems, depression.
Increase in positive
relationships with parents.
Incredible Years
Parent
$2,072
Aiming to
serve 30%
of target
group
(n=339)
$702,408 $1.20
5 -11 11,559
All K-5
Reduced violence,
delinquency and criminal
behavior, substance use,
and sexual risk behaviors
Life Skills Training $34
Aiming to
serve 90% of
target group
(N=10,403)
$353,702 $37.52
11 - 14 884
High
Risk in
Middle
School
Reduced delinquency and
criminal behavior, illicit drug
use, truancy
Behavioral
Monitoring and
Reinforcement
Program
$1,276
Aiming to
serve 30% of
target group
(N=442)
$338,140 $1.56
12 - 18 289
Youth in
Group
Homes
Delinquency and criminal
behavior, illicit drug use,
and truancy
Multidimensional
Treatment
Foster Care
$21,840
(aiming to
serve 15%),
n=43)
$939,120 $4.95
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20. Developing a Strategic Financing Plan
What financing
strategies will
support your
goals?
• Share information and engage in group
process to identify and prioritize
financing strategies
─ Improving the use of existing public
funds
─ Allocating state or local general
funds
─ Maximizing federal funds
─ Creating public-private partnerships
─ Using debt financing
─ Using social impact bonds
─ Generating new revenue
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21. Developing a Strategic Financing Plan
How will you
work together to
secure needed
resources ?
• Develop work plan
─ Tasks and
responsibilities for
pursuing financing
strategies
• Continue to convene finance
planning group to
implement, monitor and
update plan
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22. Strategic Finance Planning: Process
Considerations
• Shared vision and trust among partners critical
• Finance committee of a larger partnership lead
• Identified staff person who can prep materials and
facilitate discussion
• Neutral facilitator if possible
• General guideline: 5 – 6 meetings over 3 – 5
months
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23. Strategic Financing
in Providence
Rebecca Boxx
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• Fund Mapping – gave us the data showing imbalance in
prevention investments
• Finance Committee – brought together finance leads from
several agencies and sectors in unprecedented fashion
• Strategic Finance Plan – lays out options for creative
financing, outlines commitment of multiple agencies
• Finance Tools – allow local leads to have scale and cost
estimates at the fingertips
Financing Tools Being Used in Providence

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Complex Financing for Collective Impact
Complex Financing for Collective Impact
US Substance Abuse
and Mental Health
Services Administration
(SAMHSA)
City of Providence
(Healthy Communities
Office)
Providence Public
School Department
Community
Development Block
Grant (CDBG)
RI Department of
HEALTH
Providence
Public School
Department
Cognitive
Behavioral
Intervention for
Trauma in
Schools (CBITS)
Children and
Youth
Cabinet
Positive Action
Classroom
Incredible
Years
Parent
Chronic Absenteeism
Anxiety, Depression
Emotional Regulation
Delinquency
Family Management
Antisocial Behavior
Community
Disorganization
Commitment to school
Familias
Unidas

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• Build ownership and accountability across systems,
champions and stakeholder groups
• Begin with ‘easier’ finance strategies: redirection, raising
grant and new funds
• Continue to lay groundwork for more institutional shifts
• Identify neutral intermediary with capacity to navigate
complex financing systems
Lessons Learned

27. Growing Interest in Investing
in Proven Programs
Elizabeth Gaines
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Lessons from a dozen years with the Children’s Cabinet Network:
• Budgets and Partnerships are like peanut butter and jelly
• Vertical and horizontal alignment of policies and resources
– Federal, State, Local
– Education, Human Services, Health, Justice, Labor, Housing, etc.
• We who care about funding children’s programs must do more to:
– Find: where does the funding come from? What does it go toward?
– Align: how can we weave together a coordinated set of supports?
– Generate: when resources aren’t sufficient how can we create more?
– Evaluate: are we funding what works?
Children’s Cabinets
and the Children’s Funding Project

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30. King County Dashboard of Spending
by ages and outcomes
Primary Outcome
Area
Pre K (0-5)
Total: $4.2 M
School Age
(6-10)
Total: $6.9 M
Middle (11-14)
Total: $13.8 M
High (15-18)
Total: $13 M
Young Adult
(19-24)
Total: $5.3 M
Families
Total: $2.4 M
Academically
Successful
Total: $1.5 M $0.1 M $0 M $0.2 M $0.7 M $0.4 M $0.1 M
Vocationally
Successful
Total: $0.5 M $0 M $0 M $0.1 M $0.3 M $0.2 M $0 M
Healthy
Total: $18.8 M $2.1 M $1.9 M $6.2 M $4.9 M $2.8 M $0.9 M
Safe
Total: $17.5 M $1.2 M $4.1 M $5.4 M $5.2 M $1.1 M $0.5 M
Socially Engaged
Total: $7.1 M $0.9 M $0.9 M $1.9 M $1.9 M $0.7 M $0.9 M
Civically Engaged
Total: $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M
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31. SOURCE:
Margaret
Dunkle
Children’sServicesinLosAngelesCounty
A Fragmented Set of Funding Streams:
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32. Generating Local Funding
Portland
Seattle
King County
San
Francisco
Oakland
Lincoln
Boone
St. Charles
St. Louis
County
St. Louis City
Lafayette
Franklin
Jefferson
Miami-Dade
Broward
Palm Beach
St. Lucie
Martin
Pinellas
Duval
Hillsborough
Okeechobee
Aspen
Boulder
County
Denver
San Antonio
Communities
throughout
CA
Jackson
and Clay
Counties
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Philadelphia
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33. What is a Public Local Dedicated Funding Stream?
• Public – allocated by government
• Local – allocated at the county, city or school district level
• Dedicated – can only be spent on services to children, youth and
families
• Funding – specific amounts of money allocated in a budget process
• Stream – ongoing funding, as opposed to year-to-year
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34. Making Smart Investments
• Portland, Oregon – 95 cents of every dollar goes to proven, quality and
cost-effective programs helping Portland’s children.
• San Francisco, California – 1 of every 3 children in San Francisco is
served by the fund.
• St. Charles County, Missouri – Truancy is down, graduation rate is up and
the county ranks #1 or #2 in the state every year compared to 86th before
the fund took effect.
• Pinellas County, Florida – with the flexibility of a local fund and getting at
root causes they meet the needs of chronically homeless families and
achieve permanent housing goals (and save money).
• Palm Beach County, Florida – Performing better than comparison groups
in studies.
• Miami Children’s Trust – Able to target investments to need using
sophisticated GIS mapping of data at the neighborhood level.
• Broward County, Florida – uses Results-Based Accountability and a
process of continuous improvement and evaluation to track their
investments and outcomes over time.
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• Creating Local Dedicated Funding Webinar
• Adding It Up Guide: Mapping Public Resources for Children,
Youth and Families Guide
• Taking Bold Action to Fund What Matters Blog
• Funding the Next Generation Website
• Performance Partnership Pilots Hub Website
• Using SIBs to Support a Bundle of Youth Interventions Webinar
• Early thoughts on the value of SIBs Blog
• Pay for Success Learning Hub Website
• SIB Lab Website
Strategic Financing Resources

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Review the previous webinars in our Using What Works series at
www.aecf.org:
Preventing Problems Before They Start
Identifying Community Priorities for Child Well-Being
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