Transcript An approach to child abuse and neglect prevention that was:

Toward a DCFS
Protective Timeline
for Strengthening
Families
Family Supportive Child Welfare Services
Protective Factors
Parental Resilience
Quality Child
Welfare Services
Practice strategies
for:
• Reunification
• Permanency
• Child protection with
intact families
• Etc.
? To Be Determined ?
Social Connections
Knowledge of Parenting
& Child Development
Concrete Supports in
Times of Need
Social and Emotional
Competence of Children
Healthy ParentChild Relationship
Prevention
of child
abuse &
neglect
Promotion
of well-being,
safety, &
permanency,
Strategic Goals for Strengthening Families
1. Embed the Protective Factors in all child welfare practices
and initiatives
2. Ensure children 3–5 in child welfare system are enrolled in
quality early care and education
3. Ensure collaboration at the community level among early
childhood programs and agencies
4. Advance developmentally appropriate and traumainformed child welfare practice
5. Work with public and private agencies to embed Protective
Factors in child- and family-serving systems.
Common Framework: Protective Timeline
Early
Learning
Safety
Planning
Community
Approaches
Serving
Intact
Families
Comprehensive
Front-End
Assessment
Concurrent
Planning
Ensuring Child
Safety
Early
Permanency
Ensuring
Permanency
Trauma-Informed
Practice
Older Wards
Aging Out
Community
Follow-Up
Levers for making the Protective
Factors paradigm shift
• Tools, assessments,
checklists
• Case reviews
• Service planning
• Provider database
• Courts
• Training
• Communications
• Performance contracting
• Funding streams
quality assurance tools
• Performance evaluation
• Policies
Appropriation
TOS Table
ETV
Age Rate
Table
Misc.
Categorical
Grants
Chafee
Title IV-B II
Receivables
Collected
FCS
Output
File
FCS
Title IV-B I
TOS
Table
TANF
TANF/EA
System
Receivables
Recognized
Children’s
Accounts
MARS CYCIS
Payroll
TFEDS
Tables
Title XIX
Medicaid
Provider
Billings
TANF/EA
Output
Waiver
Savings
Title XX
Adjustments
POS
RMS
DHS
DCFS
RMS
CCDF
SACWIS
TANF/EA
17.1%
$215,679,922
$68,800,000
$146,879,922
Title XX
1.3%
$16,402,802
$0
$16,402,802
Title IV-B I
1.2%
$15,124,977
$11,343,733
Title XIX
4.0%
$50,968,505
$0
$25,484,232
Title IV-B II
1.7%
$20,981,000
$15,735,750
SSI
1.2%
$15,632,363
$2,632,363
$13,000,000
Chafee
4.7%
$59,180,966
$5,015,701
ETV
0.2%
$2,924,154
$1,719,931
Title IV-E
45.0%
$568,900,217
$285,175,740
CCDF
1.8%
$22,407,670
$0
Misc. Grants
0.3%
$4,042,226
$3,746,089
TEXT KEY
Amount Applied (Federal, State, MOE)
Federal Reimbursement to DCFS
Federal Reimbursement to GRF
DCFS Expenditures not applied to any Federal Program
Unclaimed
21.5%
$272,214,280
Goal 1:
Embed protective factors across all child welfare
practice and initiatives
• In assessment tools like:
•Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths
(CANS)
•Parental Readiness for Permanency and
Reunification Worksheet
•Through training …
Common Language
“We Know You Love Your Kids … ”
Protective Factor
Common Language
Parental Resilience
Be strong and flexible
Social Connections
Parents need friends
Knowledge of Parenting and
Child Development
Being a great parent is part
natural and part learned
Concrete Support in Times
of Need
We all need help sometimes
Social and Emotional
Competence of Children
Parents need to help their
children communicate
Healthy Parent-Child
Relationship
Give your children the love
and respect they need
Goal 1: Why embed the Protective
Factors across all DCFS domains?
DCFS should not be in the
business of raising children,
it should be in the business
of strengthening families.
Goal 2:
Ensure that children 3–5 years of age in the child
welfare system are enrolled in early care and
education settings—mandatory for wards, voluntary
for intact and post-adoption families
Goal 2: What has been done to enroll
DCFS kids in early childhood education?
Rule 314 and POS contracts have been
changed to require enrollment in early
learning, and training, materials, and research
are taking place to ensure implementation
and follow-up.
Goal 3:
Ensure collaboration at the community level among
Head Starts, Pre-Ks, childcare centers, families and
caseworkers
Goal 3: What has been done to ensure
collaboration at the community level?
• School Minder – Rotational intake
• Statewide provider database
• Collaborative agreements with Head Start grantee
agencies
• SFI Learning Networks statewide where DCFS
caseworkers and ECE providers plan services for wards
together
• Early childhood / child welfare liaisons: 7 new staff
positions
• Partnership with child welfare agencies that also run
child care centers
Goal 4:
Advance developmentally appropriate and traumainformed child welfare practice
Goal 4: What has been done to advance
developmentally appropriate & traumainformed child welfare practice?
Integrated Assessment (plans to extend to intact
family cases); Trauma curriculum training for
caseworkers and caregivers; Trauma treatment
with developmentally appropriate, evidencebased clinical interventions; Moving traumabased treatment approaches to all children in
traditional or relative foster care
Goal 5:
Work with public and private agencies to embed
Protective Factors in child- and family-serving
systems.
Goal 5: Objectives, FY 2009
1. Create incentives for SFI training / capacity building:
ECE center licensing requirement
2. Create plan for engaging cities
3. Embed Strengthening Families ideas and practices in
Preschool for All (DCFS representation on all
committees & co-chair Special Populations
Committee)
4. Collaborative work with ISBE and DHS
“Primary responsibility for the development
and well-being of children lies within the
family, and all segments of society must
support families as they rear their
children.”
--Family Resource Coalition, 1996