Tools for Navigating Public Investments in Opportunity Youth

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1 Tools for Navigating Public Investments in Opportunity Youth Elizabeth Gaines and Olivia Allen, the Forum for Youth Investment 2017 The Forum for Youth Investment

2 Welcome & webinar housekeeping Please make sure your microphone or phone is muted! If you can t hear us please: Click join audio Call-in using your phone at (Toll Free), Meeting ID: OR join audio via computer If joining via computer, make sure volume is turned up Please feel free to use the CHAT function at the bottom of your screen to ask questions, make comments or answer questions

3 Goals for our work together Learn to follow the money Develop a baseline city budget tracker Make a plan to advocate in your city budget process

4 Webinar Agenda What is fiscal mapping? Examples from other communities Learning the budget process and vocabulary Digging into your city budget What about the state and federal budgets? Support from the Forum between now and the training Training details

5 The Policy Levers of the Children s Funding Project: 2017 The Forum for Youth Investment

6 Why local? Why now? Declining state and federal funding Shifting federal priorities Increased gaps in opportunity/wealth Missed opportunities to maximize funds in local budgets Untapped local revenue generation opportunities Increased flexibility at local level

7 Polling questions!

8 Why create a fiscal map? Understand current investments Align resources with goals Coordinate supports and services Advocate for new investments Identify new areas for attention, efficiency and innovation

9 A Fragmented Set of Funding Streams: Children s Services in Los Angeles County SOURCE: Margaret Dunkle

10 The Typical Government Centered Approach: What portion of our funds are spent on young people?

11 Expenditures by Outcome Area How diversified are the funding streams by outcome area?

12 Identify and align spending with priorities: How is the budget spent on young people distributed by segment (i.e. on youth development, prevention or treatment)?

13 Primary Outcome Area Pre K (0-5) Total: $4.2 M School Age (6-10) Total: $6.9 M Middle (11-14) Total: $13.8 M High (15-18) Total: $13 M Young Adult (19-24) Total: $5.3 M Families Total: $2.4 M Academically Successful Total: $1.5 M $0.1 M $0 M $0.2 M $0.7 M $0.4 M $0.1 M Vocationally Successful Total: $0.5 M $0 M $0 M $0.1 M $0.3 M $0.2 M $0 M Healthy Total: $18.8 M $2.1 M $1.9 M $6.2 M $4.9 M $2.8 M $0.9 M Safe Total: $17.5 M $1.2 M $4.1 M $5.4 M $5.2 M $1.1 M $0.5 M Socially Engaged Total: $7.1 M $0.9 M $0.9 M $1.9 M $1.9 M $0.7 M $0.9 M Civically Engaged Total: $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M $0 M King County Dashboard of Spending By ages and outcomes

14 Funding for Disconnected Young People in Durham, NC Other Funding for Disconnected Young People 35% $6 million Incarceration and Probation 65% $11 million Note: Funding includes detention services, which is not included in the rest of the survey due to late submission.

15 Public vs Private Funding for 14-to-24 year olds Philanthropic Funding to Nonprofits $5 million 3% Funding to Public Institutions $143 million 97% Note: Public Funding includes 8-12 Grade Instructional Services

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19 Example Timeline of the Budget Process

20 Budget vocabulary slide Sources and Uses: means revenue and expenditures (expenditures/uses being the projected amount to be spent, and revenue/sources being where that money will come from) General Fund: this is the grouping of expenditures where there city or county tax dollars and operational expenditures for most city departments are. Fund Balance/Reserves: this will be part of every budget it is what is carried over from the previous year or what will be carried over to the next year Functions: Departments are categorized by function, such as Public Protection, Health and Social Welfare, Culture and Recreation, Public works/transportation/commerce etc. There is usually no categorization for opportunity youth so you ll have to get creative in figuring out what function your cities use to categorize related programs. Schedules: sometimes a form for reporting funding information (i.e. in California) Budget Office: sometimes called Office of Budget and Planning; Office of Management and Budget, etc. compiles the budget based on input from Mayor and Departments. Adapted from Funding the Next Generation

21 Let s take a look at the Budget Tracker Template (your tool for fiscal mapping!)

22 Tips for completing the tracker slide Use the drop-down menus for easier comparison Who to follow-up with for vague line items How to track down the original source of funding It s an art not a science Determine how you will categorize funding streams (by primary category? multiple categories?)

23 Apprenticeship GED services Recreational Activities Types of Services Determine how you will categorize each of these types of services do they fit into Workforce? Social/emotional? Safety? Academic? Health? Other? Behavioral health coverage Health Education Residential Treatment Case management & care coordination Home Visiting School Athletics & Activities Child care Housing School Based Health Services Child Support Homeless Youth Services Service Learning/Volunteering Child Welfare Incarceration Sexuality Education College access services Independent Living (Youth Transitioning out of Foster Care) Shelter Community-based Juvenile Justice Services Financial Aid Street Outreach services Cultural Education Leadership Development STI/HIV Prevention Detention Legal support STI/HIV Testing and Treatment Direct Medical Services Mentoring Substance Abuse Employment Multi- Systemic Therapy Transportation Financial Assistance Nutrition/Obesity Truancy Family Planning Pre-K Violence Prevention Food Stamps Pregnancy Prevention Vocational Rehabilitation Functional Family Therapy Probation and Parole Workforce Development Gang Prevention Provider Outreach, Training and Technical Assistance Work Study 2017 The Forum for Youth Investment

24 What about state and federal budgets? (for future work) Fiscal scan of federal funding sources for opportunity youth that New Orleans currently utilizes (Accounting for Opportunity - e51a4f27a83d72e5bb pdf )

25 How we (the Forum) can help in the next month Making sense of opportunity youth budgets with coaching from Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom Start with your city s budget. If you have that Work with your state budget. If you have that Use the federal fiscal mapping tool Connect with others in your community working on fiscal mapping, if any.

26 December intro to fiscal mapping workshop We hope you ll be there! 2-6 PM December 12 th, 9 AM 12 PM December 13 th Boston, MA What we hope you ll bring: Your city budget, As much of the template filled out as you can (or a list of funding streams going to opportunity youth in your community) Some questions for further inquiry ideas of gaps