Regional Performance and Innovation Consortia Oregon’s Road to Change Presented by Tom Clancey-Burns, Executive Director Community Action Partnership of

Regional Performance and Innovation Consortia

Oregon’s Road to ChangePresented by Tom Clancey-Burns, Executive Director

Community Action Partnership of Oregon

Region 8/10 ConferenceMay 13-15, 2014

Boise, ID

Oregon’s Road To Change

Public Will, Public Action & The Role of Government

Messaging Recommendation to CAPO

Patrick Bresette - pbresette @demos. orgPublic Works: the Dēmos Center for the

Public Sector

Dēmos: A Network for Ideas & Action www.demos.org

Public Will, Public Action & The Role of

Government

Community Action Partnership of Oregon

March 10, 2010

• Understand how dominant cultural stories, perceptions and frames effect public will to address social problems

• Explore the dominant public attitudes toward government & poverty

• Learn key elements for creating a more productive public conversation about these issues

• Discuss and Practice new approaches and how to apply the lessons to your work.

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We Need to Build Public Will

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.“

- Abraham Lincoln

The Great Disconnect, Circa 2006How Public Confusion Impedes Political Solutions

to Some of Our Biggest Problems

Condition #1: public cynicism, negativism, and skeptic ism about government . . . at the highest levels in 30 years of doing quantitative and qualitative research in Oregon.Condition #2: decreasing awareness and knowledge about government . . . about 30% of the general public cannot name a single tax that is used to help pay for public services.

- Adam Davis, City Club Speech, May 12, 2006

The Benevolent Community

The Triumphant Individual

Independence InterdependenceDave Kolpack / AP

“Self-Made Man” – Irene Ritter

THE PROMISE OF COMMUNITY ACTION

Community Action changes people's lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities, and makes America a better place to live. We care about the entire community, and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other

Poverty Story•Each individual is responsible for his or her own success or failure;

•With hard work comes reward;

•The goal is equal opportunity, not equal outcome; and

•Anyone can achieve the “American Dream”.

Source: Meg Bostrom, For and Economy that Works for All

•Hard work should be valued and rewarded

•Working people are struggling

•The country needs to act to impact the economy

•People tend to judge the economy based on their perceptions of how they and people like them are doing.

•We can all work together to find solutions

Some Public Beliefs work for us…

“. . . a talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change . . .”

- Richard Rorty

Messaging Approved by CAPO Board of Directors

• We all want to live in communities where all people can be successful and families can thrive.

• We remove barriers to opportunity and build upon strengths so that families can succeed and lasting change is possible.

• We work with our communities to address common concerns, improve systems and influence policy for the benefit of all.

• We know that every life we impact improves our lives together.

From Theory to Action

Theoretical Framework of Poverty

OSU Project Update

Next Steps

Theory of Change Models

STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF POVERTY

Economic Processes

Economic Restructuring

Economic I nequa l i t y :

increase in

relative poverty because only

some to be better off

Joblessness

Social Policies/Programs do

not adequately address the needs of

the poor

Sk i l l s mismatch

Techno log ica l Changes

Social Stratification

P o v e r t y T y p o l o g i e s /C o n d i t i o n s

Tr a n s i t o r y : I n a n d O u t o f P o v e r t yC h r o n i c : C o n t i n u a l s t a t e o f

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Economic Growth:

decrease is absolute

poverty

Jobs available to

low skill workers

do not support

family above

poverty line

Globa l i zat ion Depressed

Wages

H i g h v u l n e r a b i l i t y t o u n a n t i c i p a t e d l i f e e v e n t s

E x c l u s i o n /I n c l u s i o n :

Based on gender, race, ethnicity, class, etc.

L o w Political Capital:

Makes it difficult to influence policy that directly impacts them

TYPES OF POVERTY

Transitory: In and Out of Poverty

This group includes individuals and households who

occasionally dip below the poverty line. Examples include

working families facing unanticipated events such as

medical costs, households experiencing the loss of an income earner, households gaining an income earner,

individuals who experience a decrease in pay, etc.

Lifecycle:Poverty Due to Stage

of LifeThis group includes individuals

and households who experience poverty during a certain stage of life and is

usually connected to limited human capital and assets. Examples include young

adults working in entry-level jobs, young adults still

attending school, seniors with insufficient assets, new

parents facing the increased costs associated with rearing

children, etc.

Chronic:Extended State of

PovertyThis group includes

individuals and households who are extremely

marginalized and therefore often cannot or do not earn wages. Examples include

individuals with disabilities that prevent them from working, individuals with drug/alcohol addiction, individuals with mental health issues, or even

individuals living in an area with scarce resources and

limited access to low-skilled jobs.

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The proposed Theory of Change should more explicitly reflect CAPO’s sphere of influence. Since Community Action Agencies are geared toward stabilizing and moving households out of poverty, emphasis should be placed in these areas (versus addressing structural causes of poverty).

While indicators should rise above the level of individual programs or funding sources--they should ideally be sensitive enough to capture client "progress" regardless of starting or exit points. For example, one idea was to employ a scale that would measure how much "better off" a household is as a result of CAA services.

We continue to scour the national landscape for existing anti-poverty outcomes and indicators that could be incorporated into CAPO’s Theory of Change. This includes paying special attention to indicators that might potentially measure the movement or progress of households receiving various Community Action services.

We are also spending time on the ground to investigate existing Community Action Agency program reporting and data collection requirements. Using Community Services Consortium (Albany) as our “home-base”--the goal of this research is:

• To assure that our recommended outcomes and indicators account for existing required reporting elements (in an effort to streamline data collection and reporting).

• To isolate common, cross-cutting outcomes among various programs.

• To identify what data are currently available, as well as areas where further data collection may be valuable.

• To better understand current data collection and reporting systems.

Here’s Where We Are Today

Theory of Change Models

With gratitude to the Washington Community Action Partnership

and the Community Action Partnership of Oregon,

for providing inspiration and insight into this

theory of change model

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Regional Performance and Innovation Consortia Oregon’s Road to Change Presented by Tom Clancey-Burns, Executive Director Community Action Partnership of