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Child Welfare Transformation
in Leeds and Grenville –
Here we go!!!
(Actually we are well underway in many areas)
February 2006
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• Our Strengths
Getting ready
– Our values and our vision for clients mesh nicely with many
Transformation initiatives
– We have already begun in many areas because this was the
right thing to do: e.g. Collaborative approach to engage
families, Alternatives to Court; OnLAC; PRIDE; SAFE +
overall general good practices that are being reinforced by
Transformation
– As an agency, we have a history of success in working
together to implement other changes very well, supporting
each other across units and without creating ‘impermeable
silos’
• Our Challenges
–Finding the time to make sure everyone has an opportunity
to provide input to processes that impact their work
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Transformation Goals
• To enhance services to families & children
• To engage the broader community in child
welfare
• Capitalize on research and proven best
practices
• Serendipitously, it will move our own mission,
vision and values along quite nicely
• Timing – start now and continue until we feel
satisfied that it will work for our clients
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Planning to Plan 2005-2006
Training
Transformation Planning
•Differential Response
•8 Pillars of Permanence e.g. OnLAC, PRIDE, SAFE, Kinship
Super Access
•Mediation/Family Conferencing
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Imaging
EPPII
•Quality Assurance
Services
•Community Linkages
•Regional Adoption
04/05
•Accountability
Service
Plan
Goals
FP
Support
Our Meta Plan 2005/2006
Who Will Lead what?
When to Sequence?
$’s available/required?
Research
Themes of:
Balance – workload, power with responsibility
DV + Other
Research
Education
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Community
Volunteer
Services
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Gananoque
Office
Family
Counselling
P/C Conflict
Teamwork – frequent communication, support
Infrastructure
Spending
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Observable Outcomes-Client Focus
PIP
Youth
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Position
The Transformation ‘House’
TRANSFORMATION
Differential
Response
Court
Processes
Mediation
Permanency
Planning
Multi-Year Results Based Planning
SIS
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Research
Accountability
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The House Further Divided
• We may decide that the seven main
components have several sub-components
that would be easier to tackle by creating
several specialized or project teams.
•This would capitalize on the expertise we have
internally, develop our understanding of specific
areas in a more comprehensive way and give
interested staff a chance to enhance their
knowledge and skills in these areas
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The Seven Components & Possible
Projects
1. Potential Differential Response Projects:
–New VAW approaches, alliances
–0-6 cross sector services
–Community Linkages
–Teens - Parent Child Conflict
–Strategies to keep youth in their families
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2. Permanency Planning :
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OnLAC
PRIDE
SAFE
Enhanced Foster Care systems & support
Kinship in Care
Kinship Out of Care
Youth Leaving Care
Regional Adoption
Supervised Access
Transitional Aged Developmentally Delayed Youth
Enhanced Educational approaches for CIC
– PIP enhancements e.g. Youth position.
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3. Alternatives to Court :
– Mediation
– Family Group Conferencing
4. Multi Year Results Based Planning Family - ‘Team Boring Nerds’
5. Single Information Systems
- Protection
- Foster Care
- Legal
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6. Research
- VAW with other CAS’s
- Client Engagement
- Trocme’s measures
7. Accountability
- QA systems
- Outcomes
- File Audits
- Training
- Orientation processes
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Team/Resources
• We need to fit the approach to implementing each
part of Transformation to what makes most sense
rather than imposing a structure
• In services we talked about the idea of the default
process being something like a ‘Transformation
Project Team’ consisting of:
– Lead person – Responsible for chairing,
scheduling &
– Champion – Responsible for promoting the
team’s work at the management table
– Team members – staff with an interest or
passion for this piece of our work
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Project Meetings
•We would structure the duration of the committee based
on the need to implement that piece in sequence to the
others, the scope of the project and the team’s capacity.
•Meetings would be relatively short in duration, at
specified times so that team members could plan ahead
& would not be diverted too often or too long from their
day to day work.
•Once the project team’s outcomes have been achieved,
they would stop – could be as few as two or three
meetings over a two month period or continue on for
several months depending on the scope of the project.
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Schedule
• Teams will need to do a schedule & keep
other teams up to speed on their progress:
Fact finding
Training
Phase 1
Implementation
Phase 2
Phase 3
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Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
July
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
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Sample Progress Table
Just
Some
thinkin’ work done
Team
Formed
Train the Training
Done
Trainers
Start
Done/
Ongoing
OnLAC
PRIDE
Court
QA
SIS
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Next Steps
•Think about what areas you want to
move ahead
•We will establish interim champions &
leads soon to start organizing
•Our agency planning day may be the
time to establish our teams
•Ask if you want some background
information on any specific area
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