Transcript Maine Governor’s Children’s Cabinet Orientation Chair, First Lady Karen Baldacci

Maine Governor’s Children’s
Cabinet Orientation
Chair, First Lady Karen Baldacci
Children’s Cabinet History
An Overview
• Created by Former Governor Angus King and
First Lady Mary Herman in 1996 as a way to
coordinate on policies and programs for children
and youth
• First Chaired by Commissioner Joseph Lehman,
DOC from 1997-1999
• Legislative Task Force recommended formalizing
in statute in 2000
• Chaired by Commissioner Duke Albanese, DOE
from 1999-2003
2006 Children’s Cabinet
• First Lady Karen Baldacci, Chair
Commissioners:
• Susan Gendron, Education
• Brenda Harvey, Health/Human Services
• Anne H. Jordan, Public Safety
• Marty Magnusson, Corrections
• Laura Fortman, Labor
• Patrick Ende and Daryl Fort, Governor’s Advisors
• Cabinet Staff
Maine Children’s Cabinet
Chair, First Lady Karen M. Baldacci
Commissioners of...
Education, Health/Human Services, Corrections, Labor, Public Safety
Regional Children's Cabinet Chairs
Senior Staff
Local Case Resolution Committees
Staff
(16 Total Statewide)
Lauren Sterling
Diane Maxwell
Susan Savell
C4CY; Task Force on Early Childhood;
21st Century CCLC; Legislative Youth Council;
GEAR UP; Commissioner's Implemetation Advosry Team; New Residents Committee;
Executive Staff 2006
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Barry Stoodley, Corrections
Valerie Seaberg, Education
Jane Gilbert, Labor
Janet Richards, Public Safety
Jim Beougher, DHHS, Child/Family
Services
Senior Staff 2006
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David Stockford, Education
Dan Despard, DHHS, Child Protection,
Dr. Richard Aronson, DHHS, Maternal and Child Health
Joan Smyrski, DHHS/Children’s Behavioral Health
Susan Savell, Communities for Children/Youth
Mary Fran Gamage, Labor
David Giampetruzzi, Public Safety
Roxy Hennings, Corrections
Patti Woolley, DHHS, Early Childhood
Leslie Rozeff, Muskie Institute
Susan Savell, Communities for Children/Youth
Lauren Sterling, Cabinet Staff
Regional Children’s Cabinet Chairs
Children’s Cabinet Staff
• Lauren Sterling – Staff Support for:
– Children’s Cabinet, Senior /Executive Staff, Task Force
on Early Childhood, 21st Century grant management,
Bullying/Harassment Prevention Team, and
Communities for Children & Youth Program replication
and technical assistance
• Susan Savell – Executive Coordinator:
– Communities for Children & Youth Executive
Coordinator
• Diane Maxwell – Administrative Assistant:
– Children’s Cabinet, Communities for Children & Youth
Children’s Cabinet
Common Values
Family/Child Centered, Strengthbased, Humane, and Collaborative
Mission
• To provide cross-agency coordination, and
program and policy development with a
common mission --- to measurably improve
the well being of Maine’s children, youth,
and families through evidence-based
practices and strength-base approaches to
positive child and youth development
Children’s Cabinet Public Value:
• Coordinates approaches to the delivery of services;
• Establishes administrative priorities across departments
and agencies/bureaus;
• Distributes through its Senior Staff and the Regional
Children’s Cabinets Pooled Flexible Funds to fill one-time
family needs where there is no other eligibility-related
service available to keep a child or teen safely in the home;
• Leverages resources both human (staff) and financial, that
maximizes funding by collaborative grants and best use of
federal funding streams, as mandates allow;
• Operationalize the Governor’s commitment to creating
better outcomes for children and youth in Maine.
Priorities
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Early Childhood – with the goal to create coordinated and
humane systems and policies at the state and local level and
to ensure quality early childhood services to all young
children.
Youth in Transition, expand, coordinate and strengthen
supports for youth ages 14-24, with the goal to ensure that
EVERY youth and young adult, especially those with few
assets and high risk factors such as youth in care, substance
abuse, mental health issues, academic failure, or marginalized
in any way, is connected to a permanent home, family, and
community through collaborative wrap-a-round planning
partnerships between the Children’s Cabinet agencies,
families, schools, and communities.
Priorities Cont’d
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), which
links adverse experiences in childhood - such as
abuse, alcoholism in the family, mental illness, etc.
- to adverse health outcomes as the child becomes
an adult. In understanding the research behind
ACE, the Children’s Cabinet seeks to foster
conditions that: 1) Prevent, to the extent
possible, such trauma in childhood; 2) Minimize
the impact of traumatic experiences and events;
and 3) Strengthen the resiliency of children,
families, and communities in dealing with trauma.
STATE
Planning & Tracking Change
Maine Marks
Design, Data-gathering, Reporting
Muskie Institute
Maine's Marks are a set of social indicators that
monitor the status of child, family and
community well-being for the state of Maine.
Measurement
# of indicators tracking % of improved child and
family well-being.
Partial List of Outcomes 2001-2003
Recognized nationally as a positive child/youth and community
development measurement tool.
Increased percentage of Maine businesses that report they take an
interest in and get involved in local school and civic events (Mark 69)
Decreased number of public welfare recipients (Mark 61)
Increased number of teachers with Early Childhood Education
Certification (Mark 27)
Increased percentage of public kindergarten students in schools with
all-day kindergarten (Mark 25)
Increased home care of youth with severe behavioral health problems
(Mark 18)
Decreased percentage of youth reporting illicit drug use (Mark 10)
Decreased number of incidents of prohibited behavior that resulted in
student removal from school (Mark 6)
New 2006/2007
Marks with Dashboard
• Through a partnership with Muskie, the
Children’s Cabinet is launching its new
Maine Marks web site design that will
highlight “key” indicators and federal
performance measures relating to each of
the Cabinet Priorities: Early Childhood,
Youth in Transition, and Adverse Childhood
Experiences and Resiliency.
Cross-system Practices
• The Children’s Cabinet leadership agrees to
common practices across consumer
populations, especially those with the
highest need and who require multiple
agency supports.
Collaborative Service Planning
Models
Among Maine’s successful case
planning models are:
High-Fidelity Community Wraparound
Child and Family Teams
Family Team Meetings
Family & Systems Teams
Core Principles
The specific and comprehensive plan builds on
family, child and team strengths from which
options can be developed to meet the needs of
children and families.
Families are full members of the planning team
and participate fully in developing their plan that
is reflective and respectful of their beliefs, values,
preferences, and customs.
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The plan builds on family, child and team
strengths from which options can be developed
to meet the needs of children and families.
Coordination, collaboration, follow-through and
accountability are the responsibility of all team
members and will support the family to reach
its goals.
Access to services and resources to implement
the comprehensive plan are easily accessible
Benchmarks
• The team member structure should include one-third
natural supports and not more than half of team
membership should be “advance degree
professionals.”
• No child/youth should have more than one
integrated plan across complex needs and or
multiple systems.
• We do not have a comprehensive plan until the
child/youth and parent agree it is so.
Measurements
# of agency, community, family members
trained at all systemic levels
# of disciplines/systems trained
# of case practice systems barriers identified
and removed
Trauma-Informed Systems of Care
Intervention and/or treatment that is delivered
taking into consideration the totality of the
clients’ past trauma and experiences, as a
holistic and humane approach to service
delivery and supports.
Children’s Cabinet’s
Major Cross-systems Initiatives
Task Force on Early Childhood
• Chaired by First Lady
• Revised from the 1998 Legislated Task
Force born of the Start ME Right
Legislation supporting home visiting and
childcare.
• Current body of action funded from the
Maine Title V Agency (Bureau of Health)
Federal Maternal and Child Health grant
Task Force Activities
Foster humane ways to help families and young children live, grow
and learn in a safe, healthy environment to reach their highest
potential
Encourage and engage critical thinking about systems of silos:
funding streams, data collection, reporting and accountability
Map exiting programs and systems linked to early childhood,
mental health and related supports
Address capacity of early learning: Zero-Three & Pre-K
Advocate for early investment as part of Maine’s Economic
Development Plan
Hig-FidelityWraparound Maine
• “High-fidelity Wraparound” is a family-centered,
community-oriented, strengths-based, highly
individualized planning process that relies on a
balance of formal and informal or natural supports to
help children and families achieve important outcomes
while they remain, whenever possible, in their homes
and communities.
• The target population for Wraparound Maine’s
Initiative includes multi-agency involved children and
youth, ages 5-18, with serious emotional or behavioral
disturbance who are either in residential care or at high
risk of such placement.
Desired Wraparound Outcomes
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Increase permanency and stability for children;
Decrease restrictiveness of residential environments;
Improve behavior and overall mental health;
Improved school and early care outcomes;
Decrease family and child safety issues and risk
factors;
• Increase family and child protective factors;
• Increase family engagement and satisfaction with
services and increased family resources to support their
own children.
Wraparound Funding
• The 122nd Legislature, though LD863
supported a resolve to ensure Community
base Wraparound for children in need of
care. The 123rd Legislature authorized an
annual reinvestment of funds saved through
the reduced used of residential care to
support implementation of High Fidelity
Community Based Wraparound in Maine.
REGIONAL PLANNING &
PARTNERSHIPS
Regional Children’s Cabinets
• Region I: Chaired by Ansley Newton, DOE - Cumberland
and York Counties
• Region II: Chaired by Holly Stover, DHHS/Behavioral
Health - Androscoggin, Kennebec, Sagadahoc, Oxford,
Waldo, Somerset, Knox, Lincoln, Franklin
• Region III: Chaired by Bobbi Johnson, DHHS/CPS –
Hancock, Washington, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Aroostook
Homeless Youth
• Coordinated through the Regional
Children’s Cabinets and supported by
Legislated funds.
• Engages regional providers, schools, and
policy-makers around issues facing
homeless youth to include the Rapid
Response initiatives through regional
collaborations led by each RCC.
Measurement
# of youth identified and returned to
permanent safe place
# of youth healthy physically and mentally
# of youth staying in school
# of youth succeeding in higher education
# of youth prepared to enter the workforce
Keeping Maine Children
Connected (KMCC)
• From… hospital/psychiatric and residential
facilities back to school & community
• Coordinated through the Regional Children’s
Cabinet & state agency staff:
– Brings community providers, schools and hospitals
together to share innovative programs;
– Trains school, crisis unit and hospital staff; and
– Establishes a protocol that facilitates communication
to assist youth returning from psychiatric facilities.
Measurement
# of children/youth making successful transition
back to school from psychiatric residential
treatment or correctional facilities.
# of school, clinical, and state liaisons trained
in coordinated transition planning for youth
# of youth completing high school on schedule
LOCAL PLANNING &
PARTNERSHIPS
Communities for Children &
Youth
Susan Savell, C4CY
• Serves 65 local C4CY coalitions representing over
300 towns.
• Provides local coalitions and their partners with
Americorp Vista Volunteers (151 since 1999) to
carry out the task of capacity-building, prevention
and youth development efforts locally.
C4CY Coalition Purpose
• Develop Children’s Leadership Councils to
assess the needs (assets and risks) of
children and youth, implement prevention
and positive youth development programs
and policies, and evaluate changes in the
community through effective collaboration.
C4CY Desired Outcomes
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# of community coalitions partnering with state.
% of citizens who feel positive about youth in their community.
% of young people who believe that adults in their community
care about them.
# of children/youth receiving all Five Promises.
# of coalitions awarded collaborative prevention grants.
# of community members/sectors formally engaged.
# of prevention and positive youth development programs
established, tracked and measured.
# of coalitions following plans based on assessment/data.
Local Case Resolution Committees
• LCRCs: Regionally coordinate/oversee case
review committees that process individual
and family cases with Pooled Flexible
Funds (PFF) where there is an identified
barrier to service, no other means of
funding, and seeks immediate solutions for
the family/ies.
• 16 total LCRCs total
Senior Staff Proposed Criteria for
Pooled Funding Priorities & Initiative Endorsement
Is initiative cross-systems/agencies?
Is it addressing an unmet need?
Is it a shared responsibility by all agency leadership and staff?
Is it a new initiative needing seed funding?
Does it have potential for sustainability?
What is the impact on who and how many without our support?
Is there evidence that the initiative is improving services and systems
process and function?
Does it bring collaboration along to work on behalf of children and
youth (builds relationships in communities and organizations)?
Pooled Flexible Funds Spent Overall
by Expense Class, FYE 1999-2002
Training
17%
$235,096
Admin
10%
$134,001
Case Review
19%
$258,655
Service Gap Programs
19%
$269,909
Grants to Communities
35%
$492,763
Systems Issues in Case Review with over
$10,000 Spent in FYE 1999-2002
Equipment
4%
$10,201
Other
17%
$44,290
Transportation
22%
$57,093
Counseling
8%
$21,938
Recreation /
AfterSchool
10%
$25,762
Housing
18%
$45,422
In Home
Supports
10%
$26,520
Delinquent Bills
11%
$27,427
Additional Children’s Cabinet
Interagency Initiative Leadership
• Best Practices in Bullying/Harassment Prevention
(www.maine.gov/education/bullyingprevention)
• Maine Youth Suicide Prevention
(www.mainesuicideprevention)
• Gender and Socioeconomic-specific programming
• Statewide Cross-disciplinary Prevention Plan/Datacollection
• Planning/input for the emerging local “prevention
centers” or “comprehensive health coalitions” as part of
the State Public Health infrastructure
• Statewide/Interagency Asset Development