Specifications include, but are not limited to: The First 5 Kings County Strategic Plan serves as a roadmap to focus the Commission’s investments over the next five years toward achieving key results that best promote early childhood development in Kings County. The plan guides funding decisions at a strategic level and establishes a framework to assist the Commission in measuring progress towards meeting its goals and holding it accountable in the work that it does. The Implementation Initiatives, Evaluation Framework, the 5-Year Financial Plan align with the Strategic Plan, and together these documents specify a detailed strategy for how the Commission will target its investments and the type of outcomes it seeks to achieve. Activities sponsored with Proposition 10 funds are expected to focus specifically on children 0-5 and their families. Further, according to established state level guidelines, four strategic results should be pursued: 1. Improved Child Health: Healthy Children. 2. Improved Child Development: Children Learning and Ready for School. 3. Improved Family Functioning: Strong Families. 4. Improved Systems: Integrated, Consumer-Oriented, Accessible Services. These four strategic results served as the initial basis for strategic plans that are developed at both the state and county levels and drive the data reporting structure to First 5 CA by the counties. Result We Seek – Children develop to their potential Focus Area 1 - Early Child Care and Education – Quality early childcare and education services will be accessible. Quality programs through research and best practices, including promoting higher education for teachers and provision of higher quality programs Capacity through availability of quality childcare slots appropriate for all skills and ages (infant, toddler, special needs) Parent education with emphasis on child development, parenting skills and parent/family stability Advocacy efforts for greater public investment in quality care and education
