Now available from the Center for Community Futures:

• 🆕The Salary and Benefits Survey of Local Head Start Programs 2024 is now underway!

• The CAA Salary and Benefits Survey Report 2023 is available

• The Salary and Benefits Survey Report of Local Head Start Programs 2022 is available

• Review Ready! Spreadsheet 2024 is available for Head Start Programs

• Refresh and Renew Institutes for Head Start Family Development and Case Management - Online Institute
  They are three hours each day, with breaks, starting at 8:30 Pacific Time.  

• Management Institute, Dates TBA. Via Zoom. The Management Institute focuses on the Relationship-Based Competencies for Head Start Supervisors of Family Services Professionals. 

New from John Johnston:

"I finally figured out why things are getting steadily worse in the US and what to do about it.  These two insights are now in the versions of the paper,  "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the US: 1954-2030" (Paper 052324) and Workbook 052324 that are [linked].  I promise this is the last version of both.    

The folks who have been in power in the US for the last 50 years have never been called into account.  (I include the media in this.  They are multi-national corporations too.)  The left needs to frame progressive policies differently.  There needs to be a drumbeat of messages that start like this.   "Look, you folks have been in power for half a century and here is where we find ourselves.  Today, it is evident the “American System” is failing in five ways.

• 100% of US households are facing environmental disaster. 

• 90% of US households are facing economic disaster. 

• The US is one of the few developed countries that are un-developing. 

• Political discourse in the US is increasingly divorced from reality.

• US households are increasingly stressed, fearful, and angry. 

You are welcome to try, but there is no way to refute your track record.  It is a dismal failure.  We need a new model that makes the model you built and vigorously defend obsolete.  We are not going to change your model.  We are going to build a new community-based model that makes obsolete the model you built and used to get us to the current dismal state of affairs.       

This gets us to MAGA.  The MAGA folks are all about power and hate.  The alternative – what we are going to do instead – is embodied in the latest versions of the paper and workbook that are attached.  The left in this country needs to reclaim the Declaration of Independence:  ‘Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’ as the foundation for public policy making.” 

• Census 2020

• The Community Action Partnership's Learning Community on National Trends:

  • Jim Masters and Allen Stansbury facilitated this Learning Community.

  • SUMMARY of the White paper: https://lcrcwebdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/white_paper_3rd_draft_-_exec_summary.pdf 

  • Hotlink for the whole White paper: https://lcrcwebdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1_-_white_paper_3_0_content_draft_6_august_12_2016_jims_adds-final.pdf 

  • This PPT was used in four webinars that provide tools for understanding how the economy really works.  It explains why there have not been enough “good” jobs since about 1972 -- and why there is nothing on the horizon to suggest there ever will be.  PowerPoint Presentation (communityactionpartnership.com)
    
    

  • Here is the last recording of the webinar series:  Poverty Trends: Connecting National Trends with Local Data | National CAP (communityactionpartnership.com)

For Local Head Start Programs:

• • Basic Skills Institute: based on the Relationship Based Competencies for staff who work with families.

  • Management Institute: 

Family Development and Case Management Training for Head Start Management based entirely on the new Parent, Family Community Engagement (PFCE) framework, and on the goals and Relationship Based Competencies (RBCs) listed in the appendix to ACF-IM-HS-12-05. We cover the RBCs for Supervisors using the latest in social work theory and practice. 

• • Family Development and Case Management ONSITE TRAINING

  • Wage and Benefits Comparability Services

The Center for Community Futures offers Wage and Benefits Comparability Study services for Head Start programs and Community Action Agencies.

• • Review Ready! Spreadsheet 2024. Available for Head Start programs to help get ready for federal review.

  • Salary and Benefits Survey Report of Local Head Start Programs 2022

  • Community Assessment

  • Strategic Planning

E-books:

• • Jim Masters has published a Kindle e-book: Musings and Rants of an Old White Guy

  • Teresa Wickstrom has published a Kindle book: My Friend Tom: A Journal of God-Given Friendship

• Blog by Allen Stansbury:  America's New Working Poor: Its Former Middle Class

For Community Action Agencies:

• CAA Salary and Benefits Survey Report 2023

• CAA Board Members Toolkit Developed for Cal/Neva on an OCS contract.

• ROMA: Results Oriented Management and Accountability - ROMA: Results Oriented Management and Accountability workbook free download!

• Monitoring for Change publication outlines some basic principles of monitoring, looks at the monitoring report from the perspective of the monitor and the monitoree, and identifies processes which should ensure that proper results are obtained from monitoring.

• Strategic Planning Retreat for CAAs

• Manuals Prepared for NACAA on OCS Contracts.  The NACAA Manuals page also includes Disaster Relief publication.

• CSBG. Access Reports from the CSBG National Reporting System 1982–1986. These are the earliest reports from the National Voluntary Reporting System (NVRS) and CSBG Information System (CSBG-IS).  The CSBG page also includes information re: The OCS Project to Develop a 21st Century Model to End Poverty and National Conversation on Poverty and Economic Security (NCPES).

• Eighteen Principles for Effective Leadership (free publication). This publication incites action by providing members of the board with the theoretical framework for running the agency. It includes sample policies divided into four areas of board responsibility. It introduces the technology of Policy Governance for nonprofit organizations as conceived and practiced by John Carver, Ph.D. This paper summarizes the salient principles which characterize excellence in governing an organization. 

• Opinion Papers by Jim Masters. Click on the link to access the Opinion Papers and Book Reviews by Jim Masters in Microsoft Word format. 

• OEO and CSA Instructions and Documents. OEO and CSA Instructions and Documents, 1964-1981 in PDF format, some in .doc/x

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