Project PREP - Definition of Terms

Project Prep - Planning Process
Project Prep - Definition of Terms
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School cluster - Depending on the student’s address, the schools to which students are zoned at elementary, middle and high school grade levels.

Lead Organization - The lead organization of a Family Resource Center is charged with the following responsibilities:

Takes leadership role in planning and coordinating services - public and private - to help meet the needs of the people who live in the service area.
Develops structures for integration of services, staffing and coordination of customer intake process. · Acts as broker of services needed to impact neighborhood outcomes.
Facilitates/promotes shared vision among partners.
Ensures establishment of interagency agreements and monitors compliance.
Convenes partners and people who live and work in the neighborhood to participate in planning process.
Engages and coordinates with community service agencies, public schools, neighborhood associations, faith-based organizations, and businesses in the service area.
Establishes, provides support to, and regularly convenes Advisory Councils (comprised of at least 51% of neighborhood residents).
Seeks dollars from other sources to ensure financial sustainability of FRC.

Neighborhood - An aggregation of census tracts constituting a community, with an identifiable name. The community is set off by identifiable geographic boundaries, such as rivers, and also by structural boundaries, such as highways. Residents of the community generally share similar ethnic, economic, and social characteristics and experience a great deal of social and economic interaction within the community.

Partner Agencies - Family Resource Centers are neighborhood-based service delivery systems designed to increase the health and well-being of children, families and communities. Therefore, in collaboration with the lead agency of the Family Resource Center, a partner agency is charged with the following responsibilities:

Participates in a system of coordinated and integrated services - public and private - to help meet the needs of families within the service area.
Supports structures for integration of services and staff, including coordination of customer intake process and data collection.
Signs and complies with interagency agreement.
Participates in Advisory Council to plan, report, coordinate, and problem solve.
Shares customer data to track and report progress toward priority outcomes.

Rate - A statistical calculation to show the probability of an event and to allow comparisons of the number of events among differently sized populations. Sheer numbers of events do not tell which areas have a larger problem since one area may have a larger population than the other area it is being compared to. To calculate a rate, the number of events is divided by the population at-risk. For example, the number of births to adolescents would be divided by the population of females ages 10-17 years (the population at-risk of having a birth). The resultant figure is then multiplied by 1,000, a number picked by statisticians to eliminate decimal points. With the resultant rates, it is then possible to compare two or more areas that have different numbers of girls in their population to see which has a greater problem with teen pregnancies. Percents are rates per 100 population.

Stakeholder - Community stakeholders are people with a stake, an interest, or an investment in a community issue or outcome. Their interest may stem from a professional or personal interest in an issue or may stem from a commitment to achieve some outcome. For example, health professionals, and parents of chronically ill children might be stakeholders in the health services delivery system. Elected officials may be stakeholders if public dollars need to be spent for health or if their constituents need health services.