Quick Win 2: Palm Beach County Infant and Early Childhood Action Plan

Possible first steps or focus areas could be to examine the sector recommendations and build on community momentum currently underway The team could consult actions in the youth master plan, current community efforts underway in the Fighting ACEs Initiative, as well as strategic approaches within the Children Services Council of Palm Beach County and Palm Beach County's Youth Services Department.

Through the White Paper process, the community has prioritized sector levers of change, quick wins, targeting universal strategies for the largest community impact The interest is largely focusing on developing sector specific training and education to become an ACEs-Aware and Trauma-Informed system

Strategic Recommendations for Prenatal to 10, Palm Beach County (PBC) Public Health Prevention Approach

The action team could conduct the following Public Health Strategies for the advocacy and implementation of a Palm Beach County, prenatal to 10 strategic plan for Fighting ACEs:

1. Theory of Change:

Develop a PBC, Birth to 10, Theory of Change for Fighting ACEs, taking into account the 6 conditions of systems change. Assess the 6 conditions of systems change for the Birth to 10 Action Team:

Relationships and Connections Dynamics Mental Modesl

2. Actor Mapping:

Conduct actor mapping and plot services by age, prenatal-10 and caregiver, along a prevention continuum (universal, selected, indicated)

3. GIS Mapping of Services:

Geographically map services to identify place-based equity of prenatal to 10 and caregiver strategies and programs Gaps and needs can be better identified.

4. Funding Matrix:

Funding Analysis to determine PBC Infant and Early Childhood Funding Landscape by target population, geography, and levels of prevention (universal, selected, indicated)

5. Data Monitoring Agreements:

Create a Palm Beach County prenatal to 10, ACEs related shared data and monitoring repository with data agreements, used to inform the action plan and dissemination of programs and services and monitor impact

6. Return on Investment Structure:

Develop a Return on Investment structure of system impact of prevention, early intervention, and treatment services and impact on ACE related long-term health and societal effects

7. Advocacy Collaborative:

An advocacy collaborative could use all of the information listed above to create a compelling public health monitoring campaign to inform elected officials both locally and statewide The advocacy collaborative could be built on existing collaboratives with a focus and structure to inform societal policy decision making as well as informing cross system, sector partners regarding impact on program implications This group could also serve as a learning community for Palm Beach County

8. Prenatal-to-10 Funders Collaborative:

The funders' collaborative could be a subgroup of the existing Palm Beach County Funders' meeting It could prioritize and drive the action work team and strategic dissemination of the Public Health Approach