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Final Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) SRFC Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (SS/HS) Connections Grant Partners of Suburban Ramsey County by Jessica Siebenbruner, M.A., called, "Early Childhood - A Good Beginning, for a Better Tomorrow". Lastly, our partners have worked with the University of Minnesota (U of M) , Extension Services to develop Thriving, with your Teen: Recommendations made from the latest research on how parents and youth can thrive throughout the teen years. All three of these documents have guided our collaborative partners in developing, initiatives that are evidence based and theoretically and scientifically sound. The following strategies and values are integrated within the existing service system and embedded throughout the SSMS logic model. In this phase of partnership and collaboration, service priorities are central to all partner agency/organization activities and together the collective effort is focused on addressing community wide gaps. Guiding, Principals: 1) Use strength -based and family-driven approaches focusing on the assets, competencies and overall development of children and youth as part of their family system and understood holistically. 2) Increase access to services and formal and informal supports where kids and families live and congregate in Suburban Ramsey county. 3) Use capacity building, models to sustain each activity after the grant (e.g. build in positive parent- to-parent; peer-to-peer; cross-age mentoring; multi - n rational and multi-sector supported services wherever possible.) 4) Enhance meaningful and authentic youth, parent and community engagement, involvement and leadership in both school and community. 5) Grow, diversify and enhance collaborative and multi-sector partnerships via interdisciplinary teaming, and learning,, comprehensive service coordination, and community organizing,. These set of interventions will be implemented in a given geographic area (neighborhood, precinct, municipality, school) and will work together as a seamless system of mutually compatible, mutually reinforcing interventions. 6) Integrate full family inclusion in planning,, implementing, and evaluating, the outcomes of coordinated services. 7) Utilize culturally and linguistically competent/relevant and respectful approaches at all levels of service and in all interventions. 8) Maintain focus on outcomes and quality; research and evidence-based approaches, ongoing, reality-testing, with children, youth and families and continuous improvement in all facets of the partnership. The local intervention system applies evidence-based interventions to targeted factors. Where evidence- based interventions cannot be identified (or cannot be implemented given local circumstances), special attention is given to evaluation the effectiveness of any innovations that are introduced. Quality control procedures ensure fidelity of implementation. wla�