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On April 30, 2014 Nolo Consulting traveled to Orlando, Florida to conduct a staff workshop and training during the 2014 FL Head Start Association Conference. The purpose of the training was to facilitate a discussion on how data serves to improve connections and collaborations with state and local entities in order to improve services to the “most in need.” This training was a result and follow up of a study completed by Nolo Consulting in the Fall of 2013 - the OHS Region IV Profile Assessment and TA Network Guide - commissioned by ICF International.

 

The project covers nine modules with three units each.

 

Module 1: Early Childhood Education Need

Module 2: Demographics: Race and Ethnicity

Module 3: Socioeconomic Status: Income and Poverty

Module 4: Federal Assistance

Module 5: Adult Educational Attainment

Module 6: Language

Module 7: Homelessness

Module 8: Disabilities

Module 9: Foster Care

 

The three units contained the following:

 

Unit 1: General overview of the topic(s) and analyses of actionable data (736 counties) in the 8 state region.

Unit 2: Review and analysis of PIR data sources relevant to the module’s topic. 

Unit 3: Conclusions and implications about the data indicator gathered, organized and analyzed.

 

The Florida "drill down" document prepared for the Florida State Head Start Collaboration Office offers a close look at each of the Florida HS/EHS grantees comparing select indicators from the 2012 Program Information Report (PIR) to environmental scan data (2011 ACS 5-yr estimate census data). The document covers the same 9 modules and supplements or replaces each of the second "units" of the original document. 

 

We want to extend a special thank you  to Lilli Copp, Director of the Florida State Head Start Collaboration Office for inviting and hosting us!