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Team Decision Making A Family to Family Core Strategy

Team Decision Making A Family to Family Core Strategy. CAPC Meeting July 23, 2007 Becki DeBont, LCSW Family to Family Coordinator San Diego County. Family to Family.

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Team Decision Making A Family to Family Core Strategy

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  1. Team Decision Making A Family to Family Core Strategy • CAPC Meeting • July 23, 2007 • Becki DeBont, LCSW • Family to Family Coordinator • San Diego County

  2. Family to Family • The Annie E. Casey Foundation Family to Family (F2F) Initiative is focused on nationwide child welfare and foster care reform. • In California, 25 of the 58 counties participate in the Family to Family Initiative.

  3. Family to FamilyFour Core Strategies • Recruiting, Training, and Supporting Resource Families • Building Community Partnerships • Evaluating Results • Making Decisions as a Team

  4. Team Decision Making Goal The goal of TDM… make the best possible placement related decision with a high level of participant involvement

  5. Team Decision Making Values • Every child deserves a family • Every family needs the support of their community • Child Welfare agencies need community partners

  6. Assumptions that TDMs are based on: • A group can be more effective in decision making than an individual • Families are the experts regarding themselves and their history • When families are respectfully included in decision making, they are capable of identifying their own needs and strengths • Members of the family’s community add value to the process

  7. Key Elements of a TDM Meeting • Decision making related to placement issues • Safety and protection while least restrictive/least intrusive • Convened by worker of record

  8. Key Elements of a TDM Meeting (cont.) • Team includes family, supports, service providers, agency staff, resource families, and community representatives • Facilitator is a highly skilled agency social worker • Agency-owned meeting with consensus as the goal

  9. Meeting Participants • Facilitator • Social Worker • Supervisor • Family/Youth • Service Provider • Community Representative • Resource Family/LFH/FFA/Group Home

  10. Stages of a TDM Meeting • Introduction • Identify the situation • Assess the situation • Develop ideas • Reach consensus • Create an Action Plan

  11. Progress to date… • Since implementation in January 2006, we have held over 1,300 TDMs in San Diego County. • The majority of these have been held for potential placement disruptions • 70% of children facing a disruption either maintained in their placement or moved to a lower level of care as a result of the TDM • “Nothing about me, without me.”

  12. Mock TDM Presentation

  13. Read more about it... www.f2f.ca.gov www.aecf.org

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