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NATIONAL
PARTNERSHIPS
National Performance Review
750 Seventeenth Street, NW, Box 101
Suite 200
FOR
Washington, DC 20006
REINVENTING
voice: 202-632-0150 694-0001
GOVERNMENT
fax: 202-632-0390
Vice President Al Gore
FAX COVER SHEET
PLEASE DELIVER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
TO: Jen Kleim
Telephone Number:
Fax Number: 456-2878
From: Pandy Joheson
Direct Telephone Number: 694-0011
Date:
Number of Pages Including Cover:
Special Message or Comments:
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Pamela Johnson
From:
Pamela Johnson
Sent:
Tuesday, March 31, 1998 11:20 AM
To:
'Jennifer [email protected]'; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject:
RE: Site Selection Sub-Group Mtg
Here's a re-draft based on the discussion yesterday. I hope that it reflects everyone's comments. Please e-mail
additional comments.
Federal Support for Communities Initiative
A Multi-agency Reinvention Laboratory
Draft - -3-31-98 - - Draft
The Federal Support for Communities Initiative is a multi-agency reinvention laboratory leading the effort to
demonstrate that the federal government can operate in new ways to help meet local needs. Participating federal
agencies will work with local partners to "eliminate duplication and better coordinate federal funding" with a
view to supporting communities in a more focused, effective and efficient manner.
Working with the Domestic Policy Council and the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, federal
agencies will establish a cross-agency reinvention laboratory to "cut through "red tape,' exceed customer
expectations, and unleash innovations for improvements from its employees.
Principles of a Reinvention Lab:
Promote leadership in action. It is vital to the success of Lab that the head of the department or agency
take a direct and influential role in leading or supporting the lab.
Encourage risk taking and innovation. The Lab will need to challenge cumbersome and needless rules,
regulations, procedures and traditions that stand in the way of superior performance and results.
Celebrate and publicize successes. Let people tell their stories.
Maximize achieving results and minimize reporting.
Pursue long-term change, including applying Lab lessons and innovations within other parts of the
department or agency, as well as across the rest of government.
Goals:
As a reinvention laboratory, the Federal Support for Communities Initiative will seek to:
Contribute to government-wide reinvention of federal support for communities;
Examine and improve upon the means by which the federal government provides support and information to
local communities to achieve specific outcomes;
Help solve problems that communities identify, testing or prototyping solutions for potential government-
wide introduction;
Identify and seek to remove federal statutory and regulatory barriers to achieving outcomes;
Empower federal regional, field and front line federal workers to collaborate with local communities in
addressing their needs;
Establish a learning network that spreads effective models, best practices and lessons learned;
Develop a transferable model or methodology that is not subject-specific but which will serve as a
springboard for further multi-agency collaboration;
Make more effective and efficient use of federal resources; and
Develop sustainable, community partnerships between federal, state and local government committed to
getting results.
Community Participation:
The Federal Support for Communities reinvention laboratory invites the participation and ideas of communities
to identify and address barriers to improving local services. To facilitate the identification and possible testing
of alternative approaches, the Initiative will work with a diverse set of pilot communities with varied
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characteristics as partners that meet the following criteria:
Commitment to achieving results, as evidenced by locally-established pertinent goals and the basis for
collecting relevant data to measure performance;
Strong local leadership and effective public and private participation;
Commitment to reinvention and to eliminating barriers that may be identified including those at the local
level;
Existence of a community or local government entity with the infrastructure, including resources, expertise,
networks and information needed to test innovative approaches and the willingness to interact with federal
partners;
Potential impact as measured by size of problem, need and/or potential for replication;
Federal field staff committed to the Initiative as demonstrated by previous effective reinvention initiatives
and experience; and
Willingness to share lessons and successes with other communities.
After School Initiative: A Learning Laboratory:
As an initial project, the federal agencies will identify specific ways that federal agencies can eliminate
duplication and use resources more effectively to support healthy development and learning opportunities for
children during non-school hours and to reduce the estimated 5 million children who spend time without adult
supervision (from statement by President Clinton, 1/7/98).
The Initiative will begin by a learning phase during which the federal government will work with at least 3-5
communities, including the District of Columbia, to identify specific steps that the federal government can take
- - without increasing federal funding - - to reduce the number of children without adult supervision and to
increase the quality and availability of opportunities for children during non-school hours. Lessons learned
from this "learning phase" will be made available to other communities as rapidly as possible.
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001
OF
INO
JUSTICE
PAID
JUSTITIA
*
Office of Policy Development
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Room 4242
Washington, D. C. 20530-0001
Members of Site Selection Subgroup
Federal Support for Communities
TO:
Ann Rosewater, HHS
FAX: 260-3053
Michele Ahern, HHS
260-3053
Katrina Weinig, OPD
Ruth Sandoval, SBA
205-6903
Gerry Tirozzi, DOE
205-0303
Kristin Bunce, DOE
205-0303
Bill Modzeleski, DOE
260-7767
Lynn Kahn, NPR
632-0390
Jay Inslee, HHS
206-615-2087
Andrew Williams, HHS
690-5600
Mary Breen, DOJ
514-7805
Sarah Ingersol, DOJ
307-2093
Nicole Rabner, WH
456-2878
David Jones, OAG
616-5117
Kent Markus, OAG
514-1724
Jean Nelson, PCPC
395-5567
FROM:
Katrina Weinig
VOICE: (202) 514-7473
FAX: (202) 514-1685
Attached is a revised draft of the statement of Partnership for the Federal
Support for Communities After-School Initiative. Please let me know your comments by
return fax; I will incorporate them for our meeting on Monday. Thanks. Katrina
Total Pages excluding this cover: 9
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Draft: March 17, 1998
Statement of Partnership:
Federal Support for Communities
After-School Initiative
Preamble
The Federal Support for Communities initiative is a multi-agency collaborative that
has developed in response to the recognition that:
First, the federal government needs to demonstrate that it is capable of
operating in new ways to help meet local needs. To this end, the federal
government should reexamine and improve upon the means by which it
provides support and information to local communities; remove federal
statutory and regulatory barriers to local coordinated activity; and engage in
coordinated, collaborative efforts, both among federal agencies and with local
and state governments, non-profits, and the private sector.
Second, there is a tremendous need in the United States today for healthy
development and learning opportunities for children during non-school hours.
An estimated 5 million school-age children spend time without adult
supervision during a typical week. These children are more likely to engage
in risk-taking behaviors and drug and alcohol use, are more likely to be
victims of accidents and abuse, and are more likely to commit crimes.
Conversely, organized activities during non-school hours can counter unsafe
behaviors and enhance learning and healthy development.
Goals
In light of these needs, the Federal Support for Communities Initiative has developed
the following four goals:
To increase the quality, availability, and comprehensiveness of opportunities
for children during non-school hours. This will initially be accomplished in
three to five pilot communities, including the District of Columbia.
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To eliminate duplication and better coordinate federal support for after-school
initiatives, including programs providing services in afternoons, early
evenings, school holidays, and summer vacations, thereby helping communities
access and make the best use of existing federal resources.
To develop sustainable, community-based partnerships between federal, state,
and local government, schools, the private sector, community-based and non-
profit organizations, thereby harnessing leadership skills, resources, and a
local commitment to programming for children during non-school hours.
To develop a national model for restructuring the federal/local relationship in
addressing programming for children during non-school hours.
Federal Role
There is no new funding available to communities through this initiative. However,
the federal government can bring a number of valuable resources and capabilities to a
federal/local partnership. These might include:
Leadership in convening the various community institutions that receive federal
funds targeted for school-age children and youth, but which might not
normally work together or be aware of the availability of parallel funding
sources for children and youth.
Coordination of technical assistance sources that support grantees providing
services to school-age children and youth.
Technical assistance in conducting needs and resource assessments; identifying
opportunities for local collaboration; identifying and applying for federal
funding; designing and implementing a community-wide plan for school-age
children and youth; and evaluating the effectiveness of such a plan.
Working with local institutions to identify and address federal statutory or
regulatory barriers to improving services to school-age children and youth
(e.g., cumbersome fiscal reporting requirements, overly restrictive target
populations, or multiple and burdensome grant application processes).
Provision of facilities and equipment for meetings and workshops in federal
field offices.
Staff to oversee the recruitment, training, and allocation of volunteers in after-
school programs, i.e., a "volunteer coordinator."
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Site Selection
Three to five pilot communities will initially participate in this initiative, including the
District of Columbia. The remaining two to four communities will be selected based
on the following criteria:
Capacity of the community to participate in the initiative, as demonstrated by
previous collaborative experience; existence of a community entity that could
relate to a federal team, including identified leadership, involvement of
relevant stakeholders, and credibility in the community; and organizational
capacity or infrastructure, including resources, expertise, networks, and
information that can contribute to achieving the articulated goals of the
initiative.
Willingness of the community to participate in as a partner in the initiative.
Identified need for services during out-of-school time.
Ability and willingness to collect relevant data.
Federal field staff are committed to the initiative.
Diversity of sites, in terms of both location and urbanicity.
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AFTERSCHOOL INITIATIVE
VUI
CITY
STATE
SIZE/TYPE
EXISTING FEDERAL PROGRAMS
Mesa
AZ
Rural
*
Juvenile Cang Prevention Intervention
and Suppression (OJP/OJJDP)
Tucson
AZ
Mid-size
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (AFL) 2 sites (OPHS/DHHS)
Transitional Living Program (TLP) (ACF/DHHS)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS)
(Southwest)
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DHHS)
Weed & Seed (OJP/BOWS)
Juvenile Gang Prevention Intervention
and Suppression (OJP/OJJDP)
Recommended by Joyce Short)
Imperial County
CA
Rural
*
Enterprise Community (EC)
was
Weed & Seed (OJP/EOWS)
(Southwest)
SafeFutures (OJP/OJ/DP)
Oakland/East Bay
CA
Mid-size
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS)
Corridor
Enhanced Enterprise Community (EEC)
Comprehensive Community Planning/ (OJP/BJA)
(Southwest)
SafeFutures (OJDP)
Long Beach
CA
Mid-size
E
ED (Strong Education Mayor, active superintendent in school improvement and/or afterschool
programs)
(Southwest)
002
005
03/19/98
2
ORT
CITY
STATE
SIZE/TYPE
EXISTING FEDERAL PROGRAMS
San Diego
CA
Mid-size
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DHHS)
Community Schools Program (2 sites) (ACF/HHS)
THU 13:29 FAX
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DRHS)
ras
(Southwest)
Comprehensive Strategies site (OJP/OJJDP)
Enterprise Community (EC)
EVE
%Yn
San Francisco
CA
Urban
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DHHS)
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
enoi
Community Schools Program (2 sites) (ACF/DHHS)
(Southwest)
National Youth Sports Program (2 sites) (ACF/DHRS)
Enterprise Community (EC)
Washington
DC
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (2 sites) (OPH/DHHS)
Transitional Living Program (2 sites) (ACP/DHHS)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DRHS)
National Youth Sports Program (2 sites) (ACF/DHBS)
Challenge; Enterprise Community (EC); Comprehensive Community Planning/ (OIP/BJA), Weed &
DVVO Jrn/ron
Seed (OJP/EOWS)
PACT/OJP/BIA)
National Funding Collaborative site (OJP/OJJDP)
Four Comers Area
Utah,
Tribal
Enterprise Community (EC)
NM,
AZ,
CO
St. Petersburg
FL
Mid-size
Public/Private Venture City (OJIDP)
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DHHS)
(Southeast)
000
900
3
CITY
STATE
SIZE/TYPE
EXISTING FEDERAL PROGRAMS
Savannah
GA
Mid-size
Public/Private Venture City (OJJDP)
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
(South)
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DHHS)
Chicago
IL
Urban
E
IBU 11:06 l'AA ZUZ 014 TOUD
13:29 03/19/98 THU FAX
Weed & Seed/(OIP/BOWS)
Enterprise Community (EC)
NII Children At Risk Project (OJP/OJJDP) Enterprise Zone (EZ)
Weed & Seed/(OIP/EOWS)
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DHHS)
(Central)
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS)
National Youth Sports Program (6 sites)(ACF/DHHS)
MOST
ED (Strong Education Mayor, active superintendent in school improvement and/or aftershcol
programs)
CDC/OJJDP Violence Prevention project (OP/OJIDP)
East Beton Rouge
LA
Rural
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DHHS) Baton Rouge
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS) Baton Rouge
DOJ/OJP DAAG
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS) Baton Rouge
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DHHS) Balon Rouge
Partnerships to Reduce Juvenile Gun Violence (OJP/OJ/DP)
New Orleans
LA
W
Weed & Seed (OJP)
100
207
4
CITY
STATE
SIZE/TYPE
EXISTING FEDERAL PROGRAMS
03/19/98 THU FAX
Boston
MA
Urban
B
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DHHS)
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
13:29 FAX
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS)
(Northeast)
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DHHS)
Comprehensive Communities Program/(O.P/BJA)
Weed & Seed/(O/P/EOWS)
SafePutures site (OJP/OJIDP)
EEC
MOST
Anti-Gang Initiative/COPS
ED (Strong Education Mayor; active superintendent in school improvement and/or afterschool
programs)
Mississippi Delta
MS
Rural
MOST
Region
Enterprise Community (EC)
(South)
Kansas City
MO
Mid-size
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DRHS)
Enhanced Enterprise Community (EEC)
(Midwest)
Weed & Seed (OJP/EOWS)
(Recommended by America's Promise)
SL Louis
MO
Mid-size
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS)
(Midwest)
National Youth Sports Program (2 sites) (ACF/DHHS)
SafeFutures site (OJVOIJDF)
Enterprise Community (EC)
Weed&Seed/OIP/EOWS
(St. Louis 2004 Citywide Planning Initiative Underway)
Ft. Belknap
MT
Tribal
SafeFutures (O/F/O/IDP)
X 005
800
03/19/98
5
CITY
STATE
SIZE/TYPE
EXISTING FEDERAL PROGRAMS
Syracuse
NY
Urban
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DHHS)
PAITT
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
THU 13:29 FAX
(Northeast)
500
Philadelphia
PA
Urban
W
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (2 sites) (OPHS/DHHS)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS)
National Youth Sports Program (2 sites) (ACF/DHHS)
(Northeast)
eno, *TO "n"
OJJDP
Enterprise Zone (EZ)
Weed& Seed/(OJP/EOWS)
Pittsburgh
PA
Urban
#
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPH/DHHS)
National Youth Sports Program (2 sites) (ACF/DHHS)
(Northeast)
Weed&Seed/(OJP/BOWS)
Title V Site (OIP/OIIDP)
Enterprise Community (EC)
DOJ/UJP UAAG
Austin
TX
Mid-size
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OPHS/DHHS)
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DHHS)
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
(Midwest)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHHS)
Public/Private Venture City (OJDP)
Enhanced Enterprise Community (EEC)
/
900
600
6
CITY
STATE
SIZE/TYPE
EXISTING FEDERAL PROGRAMS
03/19/98 THU 13:30 FAX
Houston
TX
Urban
E
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (OFHS/DHHS)
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DHHS)
(Midwest)
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DRHS)
Public/Private Venture City (OJ/DP)
(
Enhanced Enterprise Community (EEC)
ED (Strong Education Mayor; active superintendent in school improvement and/or afterschool
programs)
(Recommended by America's Promise)
Seattle
WA
Urban
Comprehensive Communities Program/
(OJP/BIA)
(Site as possible
Weed&Seed/(OIP/BOWS)
consultant to FSCI)
(Northwest)
SafeFutures site (OJP/CJJDP)
MOST
Enterprise Community (EC)
Milwaukee
WS
Mid-size
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects (2 sites) (OPHS/DHHS)
Transitional Living Program (ACF/DHHS)
AVVN JPO/POR
(Midwest)
Community Schools Program (ACF/DHRS)
National Youth Sports Program (ACF/DIHHS)
Weed&Seed/(OIP/BOWS)
Enterprise Community (BC)
ED (Strong Education Mayor; active superintendent in school and/or after shool programs)
(Recommended by Joyce Short)
*
(Top six sites recommended by OJJDP)
E
(ED Priorities)
W
(Weed & Seed Priorities)
NOTE:
DHHS programs are a sample of programs in which funds are granted specifically to a community or city.
This list is limited by the fact that many of the funds used to provide services and activities for youth during out-of-school
time are granted to the states in the form of block grants to the states.
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DATE 2/12/98
TO Jennifer Klein
TEL #
FAX # 456-2878
SENITED * 7 S ENATE MINIS STATES UNITED TV *
FROM Brian Lee
SENATOR HERB KOHL
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
815 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3406
TOTAL PAGES (including cover) 2
REMARKS Thanks for your help! Let Me know if
there's anything more we can do.
02/13/98 FRI 11:53 FAX
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February 13, 1998
To:
Jennifer Klein
Fr:
Brian Lee (Judiciary Counsel to Sen. Kohl)
Re:
Pilot Cities for Improved Coordination of Federal After-School Initiatives
Summary
We believe Milwaukee is a strong candidate as a pilot city for the initiative on
coordinating after-school program assistance. Milwaukee already has a record of success with
after-school programs, an ambitious plan to expand after-school programs to city areas with the
lowest income and highest crime rates, and, with a broad-based coalition and support from the
schools and youth service providers, the infrastucture necessary to serve as an exemplary and
successful model. Senator Kohl is personally interested in this program, as well as very active in
the Milwaukee coalition planning to expand after-school activities. So please let us know what
we can do to make sure that Milwaukee receives full consideration as a potential pilot city.
Discussion
Milwaukee's commitment to after-school programs grows out of the success of the after-
school safe havens established through the Weed & Seed initiative. In the three Milwaukee
Weed & Seed neighborhoods, violent felonies dropped an astounding 47 percent, while overall
crime dropped 21 percent, compared to just 4 percent in adjacent neighborhoods.
The city's Youth Crime and Violence Task Force, sponsored by Senator Kohl, the Mayor
and the U.S. Attorney, expects to implement over the next three years an integrated plan that will
build on this record, combining the expansion of safe havens with targeted law enforcement and
neighborhood organizing. Under the task force plan, the community plans to open dozens of
safe havens after school, on weckends and over the summer throughout Milwaukee's most
troubled neighborboods. The task force brings together a coalition of neighborbood, business,
law enforcement, religious and political leaders. It already has secured the support of the local
school district, which has pledged at least 50 school buildings for use as safe havens, and a broad
coalition of groups like the Boys & Girls Clubs and the YMCA, who have agreed to work with
the schools to provide programming, if there is sufficient funding.
Federal assistance through this pilot program would help the task force identify needed
funding to operate these after-school programs, as well as build on the effective working
relationships Milwaukee already has with federal officials through, for example, Weed & Seed,
and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program. In fact, Milwaukee expects to
be designated as a HIDTA, which will bring a significant federal investment to the law
enforcement component of its plan. This pilot program would complement the HIDTA by
helping bring federal assistance to the plan's crucial prevention/after-school prong.
Senator Kohl hopes that Milwaukee - the seventeenth largest city in the U.S., with an
ethnically diverse population of 650,000 in the city and 1.5 million in the metropolitan area -
will be considered as a pilot city. Senator Kohl has actively promoted after-school and child
care initiatives over the years. His proposed tax credit for businesses which subsidize their
employees' child care costs is part of the President's child care initiative, and he has supported a
broad range of programs that provide after-school programming, including the 1992 Title V/At
Risk Children's Initiative (which the President's FY 1999 budget would expand from $20 to $95
million) and funding for Boys & Girls Clubs.