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Collaboration is a process among a group of stakeholders with a common agenda. In this case of Discovery, the common agenda is to improve the lives of children from birth to age 8. Partners may include individual parents, other community residents, people representing organized groups of parents and residents (such as seniors), early care and education providers, schools, employers and other business people, government and others with a role to play in helping a community’s children to thrive.
Collaboration is so critical to the work of Discovery because children need many different kinds of support to thrive in their early years and do well in early grades in school. No one family, organization or institution can cover all of these bases alone; no one of them alone has the legal or political power to put all the pieces in place.
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Tools for developing a successful collaboration, overcoming obstacles, and fostering a collaborative environment.
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Community Planning Tools
Self-assessment and planning is key to the Discovery value of building community capacity to make positive changes on behalf of young children. The Discovery Community Assessment and Planning Tool is designed to facilitate dialogue among participants in the Discovery work about five core principles of collaboration, and the factors that relate to each principle. The Community Planning Tools are offered to help communities to facilitate a planning process around young children. For Discovery, a community planning process is a way in which the collaborative can be a catalyst for systems change and engage those most affected in local decision-making.
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