Transcript The Coming Age of Austerity Stimulus funding to states for IV

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Our Challenging Environment
The Coming Age of Austerity
■ Stimulus funding to states for IV-E and Medicaid ending
■ State budgets to worsen
Largest Scale Political Transitions in our
Lifetimes
■ Biggest changes are in state legislatures and governorships
■ New commissioners/secretaries/directors will be dealing
with multiple challenges on many fronts
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Our Challenging Environment
THE SMART PERSON ACCEPTS,
THE IDIOT RESISTS.
- Sign in Greek Monastery
This is the secret of success for anywhere in
the world.
- Father Arsenios
First rule of any collaborative enterprise:
- Take what you have and build on it.
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Our Challenging Environment
How Do We Survive ─ Thrive ─ in This
Environment?
■ Give voice to our young people – engage them in authentic
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Nurture partnerships
Identify and seize opportunities
Build a constituency that is a force – a national movement
Pay close and strict attention to communication and data
These are the Jim Casey Strategies
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Our Challenging Environment
The Art of Communication is the Language of Leadership.
- James Humes
What Are Our Messages:
■ Cost of bad outcomes: $6 billion per year is not tolerable in
age of austerity
■ Policy is driven by stories, by anecdotes. But the plural of
anecdotes is not data. We must have both stories and data.
■ We are – legally and morally – the parents of these young
people
■ Successful strategies, and data to back them up, with youth
voice overcomes the perception of bottomless pit
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www.jimcaseyyouth.org
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