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Form Community Implementation Team

Purpose: To identify stakeholders from diverse sectors to participate in a Community Implementation Team.

Recommended CIT Membership

Recommended readings from the KU Community Toolbox:

Making Personal Contact with Potential Participants

Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests

Using Community Sectors to Reach Targets and Agents of Change

KIDOS Toolkit

  • Convene
    • Introduce Kansas Initiative for Developmental Ongoing Screening (KIDOS) Project
    • Introduce Collective Impact approach
    • Identify credible champion
    • Form Community Implementation Team
    • Determine gaps in CIT membership
    • Invite additional stakeholders, as needed
    • Establish shared leadership
    • Establish process for continuous communication within CIT
    • Orient to implementation plan and community toolkit resources
    • Identify opportunities to engage the broader community
  • Orient
    • Promote common understanding of child development among stakeholders
    • Clarify rationale for universal developmental and social emotional screenings
    • Promote common understanding of screening instruments
    • Promote common understanding of early intervention services and resources
  • Assess
    • Develop a shared vision and determine if there is consensus to move forward
    • Establish common vocabulary
    • Assess existing community data
    • Conduct a scan of available community early intervention services
    • Conduct community readiness assessment
    • Conduct SWOT analysis
    • Identify root causes of barriers
  • Plan
    • Conduct gap analysis
    • Consider guiding questions
    • Agree upon mutually reinforcing activities
    • Confirm common agenda
    • Identify shared measures
    • Develop system for tracking and collecting shared measures
    • Develop an action plan
    • Develop inventory of community early intervention services
    • Review early intervention referral process
    • Consider universal referral and release of information forms
  • Act
    • Broaden screening efforts to pediatric health care providers
    • Host developmental and social emotional screening instrument training for interested community organizations and agencies
    • Support implementation of mutually reinforcing activities
    • Coordinate community awareness activities to increase buy-in and parent understanding
  • Review
    • Compile data collected as part of shared measures
    • Collect feedback from screening sites and other partners
    • Identify, discuss, and address successes and challenges
    • Review data and refine processes
    • Use data and stories to communicate results and lessons learned
This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Impact Program grant #H25MC00234 ($410,771) to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by KDHE, HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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