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Implementing Strengthening Families: Kansas’ Experience

Implementing Strengthening Families: Kansas’ Experience. Kansas Children’s Cabinet & Trust Fund James Redmon, MSW, MPH University of Kansas Institute for Educational Research & Public Service Jackie Counts, MSW Rebecca Gillam, LMSW. Why It’s Needed.

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Implementing Strengthening Families: Kansas’ Experience

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  1. Implementing Strengthening Families:Kansas’ Experience Kansas Children’s Cabinet & Trust Fund James Redmon, MSW, MPH University of Kansas Institute for Educational Research & Public Service Jackie Counts, MSW Rebecca Gillam, LMSW

  2. Why It’s Needed • Lack of direction and vision for prevention activities • Funding is limited • Minimal policy attention

  3. Setting the Stage • Rationale for prevention in early childhood • Guiding principles of Strengthening Families • Meet consumer needs • Family-focused • Balanced emphasis on prevention and remediation • Community-level authority • Accountability

  4. Connecting to other Initiatives • Kansas Strengthening Families Plan • CBCAP (Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention) programs • Protective Factors Survey • Early Childhood Initiative • Kansas Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (KECCS) Plan

  5. Strengthening Families and the KECCS Plan

  6. State and Community Agencies Strengthening Families Plan KCCTF/ CBCAP PREVENT INSTITUTE Prevention Coordination

  7. Get the Right People at the Table • Addiction/Prevention Services • Advocate groups • Child Care • Children and Family Services • Parents • Early Childhood Development • Education • Diversity • Faith • Foundations • Governor’s office • Health • Healthy Families • Judicial system • Law Enforcement • Mental Health • Military • Nursing • Pediatrics • Perinatal • PREVENT Team • Public Health • Legislators • Social Services • Social Work • University • CBCAP Grantees

  8. State Planning Process • Environmental Scan to assess what prevention programs are currently available across the state • Review of Evidence-Based Practices and assessment of CBCAP grantees for primary prevention programs • Mapping of prevention programs

  9. Environmental Scan

  10. Planning Process

  11. Child Abuse and Neglect Rates

  12. Primary Prevention Services DRAFT

  13. Secondary Prevention Services DRAFT

  14. Tertiary Prevention Services DRAFT

  15. Strategic Planning Process

  16. Kansas Strengthening Families Plan

  17. Financing and Supporting Strengthening Families • CBCAP Funding • Early Childhood Block Grant • $23 million (FY08-FY09) • Administered by the Children’s Cabinet • Driven by accountability-measures and research-based programming, as well as a focus on at-risk children and underserved areas • Early Childhood Initiative

  18. Challenges • Evidence-Based Practice/Best Practices • Fragmented funding • Complexity of data collection • Data driven planning

  19. What’s Worked • Getting started • “Strengthening Families” reaches a broad audience • Visual roadmap • Organize around content • Neutral convener

  20. Next Steps • Leadership Team • Website • Implementation Tracking Tool

  21. http://www.ksfplan.org

  22. Contact Information • Kansas Strengthening Families Plan • http://www.ksfplan.org • James Redmon, Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund • James.Redmon@srs.ks.gov • Jackie Counts, University of Kansas • jcounts@ku.edu • Rebecca Gillam, University of Kansas • rgillam@ku.edu

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