Permanency Practice Initiative
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Transcript Permanency Practice Initiative
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts
Office of Children & Families in The Courts
Today’s Agenda:
Brief Update –
• What’s
completed…
• What’s
Happening
Now…
• What’s coming…
Completed
Judicial Analyst County Assignments
Children’s Roundtable Initiative
• Children’s Roundtable
Initiative structure in place
• Eight Leadership
Roundtables
–Co-chairs
• Statewide
Roundtable
Children’s Roundtable Initiative
• encourage a strong collaboration
between the court and agency,
includes all stakeholders
• free flow of ideas, problems and
solutions
• All practices and initiatives taken on
by the OCFC are vetted through the
Pennsylvania Roundtable governance
structure
Children’s Roundtable Structure
Guiding Principles
• Committee Chaired
by The Honorable J.
Brian Johnson,
Lehigh County
• Mission Statement
and Guiding
Principles
• Pennsylvania Child
Dependency System
Permanency Practice
Initiative
Permanency Practice Initiative Phase One
Implemented
Phase One Counties– Allegheny, Blair,
Butler, Carbon, Dauphin, York, Lackawanna,
Lehigh, Snyder, Venango, Washington,
Jefferson, Chester, Northampton
Phase 1 County Meeting
Expected Outcomes
• Increase in
– Child, Family & Community participation
– Community based services
– Prevention services
– Placement stability
– Permanent, life-connections for older
youth
– Safe & timely permanency
PPI Practice Components
• Three (3) Month Court Review
• Family Group Decision Making
• Children’s Roundtable (leadership &
oversight team)
• CPCMS Dependency Module
• Family Finding
• Family Development Credentialing
• 3-5-7 Model
Three (3) Month Court Review
• More frequent review
of cases provides for
greater accountability:
– families
– providers
– workers
– court
– agency
• All Phase 1 Counties
have moved to 3
month reviews
Family Group Decision Making
(FGDM)
• Voluntary decision making
process
• Guided by values and beliefs
• Organizational Change/Practice
Shift
• 2009 International FGDM
Conference – Legal Track
CPCMS Dependency Module
CPCMS live in 65 of
67 counties
CPCMS Forms subcommittee of the
Juvenile Court Rules
Committee
court case
management
reports and outcome
data
Family Finding (FF)
• Finds Families
(extended families)
• Combines: common sense, social
work, detective work, and technology
• Search for families at intake and
throughout the life of the case
• Connects to other family focused
practices
• Real work begins once family
members are found
Family Finding (FF)
Completed:
• Training for
county users
–6 of 6 sessions
–40 real cases
–14 PPI
Counties
• Accurint
Family Development Credentialing
(FDC)
• Process to develop a network of strengthbased community providers
• Advisory group (Local Roundtable)
• Includes:
– Instructor Training (80hrs) & Portfolio
Advisors (10hrs)
– Course work & transfer of learning hours
– Credentialed through Cornell University
Family Development Credentialing
(FDC)
Completed
• Family Development
Credentialing
– 3 Instructors
Institutes trained
over 75 instructors in
15 counties
– Portfolio Advisor
Training underway
What’s Happening Now?
Permanency Practice Initiative Phase 2
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Adams
Armstrong
Bucks
Cumberland
Franklin
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Fulton
Indiana
Luzerne
Montgomery
Tioga
Permanency Practice Initiative Phase 2
• Phase 2 County site visits
• Same components as
Phase 1
• Supported by OCFC, OCYF,
CWTP, SWAN, CAAP, Phase 1
Counties
Children’s Roundtable Summit
• September 24 –
26 Pittsburgh,
PA
• Meeting of
Children’s
Roundtable
Members
Benchbook
• Dependency Bench Book Committee –
Chair, Honorable Chester Harhut,
Lackawanna county
• Details Court Hearings’ Best Practices
• Science piece – trauma, attachment,
grief/loss
3-5-7 Model
• Understanding of Grief, Loss &
Attachment
• In Pennsylvania this Model is
known as the Child Preparation
Unit of Service
• Training for Phase 1 Counties
What’s Coming
• Training for Judges,
Attorneys & Advocates
• Truancy Prevention
• Fostering Connections
Grant
– Kinship Navigator
– Family Finding
• Concurrent Planning
• Data Exchange
Questions
Contacts
• Cathy Utz, DPW/OCYF
(717)-705-2912;
[email protected]
• Angelo Santore
(717) 795-2000 ext 3825;
[email protected]