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]