Assessing Our Common Values: Building a Shared Vision

1. Collaborative Process for the Child Welfare System: Improving the system to achieve better outcomes for children and families Assessing Our Common Values: Building a Shared Vision

2. What was the purpose of completing the Common Values Survey? • Highlighting where we have common values that create a platform for collective work • Understanding where there is dissonance in our views and the challenges those differences present • Appreciating the reasons for areas of dissonance based on the role that we play in the system, our background, level of experience, etc.

3. The Arm Exercise: A fun activity

4. The Arm Exercise Rules • Pair up • NO TALKING • You get a point each time the back of your exercise partner’s hand touches the table • Goal: To get as many points as many points as you can foryourself

5. Analyzing the survey results: • Demographics • Values (Shared or dissonant) • Important Programs

6. Age

7. Experience in the System

8. Gender

9. Race/Ethnicity

10. Stakeholder Role

11. The most important function of the D&N system is to provide children with safe and stable homes.

12. All families that in the child welfare system should have an opportunity to receive treatment so that children can remain in their family of origin.

13. The problems of Native American children are significant in our community.

14. The problem of overrepresentation and disparate treatment of children and families of color is significant in our community.

15. There are things we can do as a community to effectively eliminate or significantly reduce this overrepresentation or disparate treatment.

16. Dealing with familial problems related to alcohol and drugs, domestic violence, mental illness, & chronic neglect will create better outcomes for children.

17. Rank these problems and corresponding treatments in order of importance in creating community based solutions.

18. Rate these same programs in terms of their individual importance in creating a system that will improve outcomes for children and families.

19. Break time!

21. People who abuse or neglect their children should be held responsible for their actions.

22. Our first choice should be that children are never removed from their families of origin.

23. Providing people who abuse or neglect their children with treatment is the best way to help their children achieve safety and permanency.

24. Extended family members provide important resources for children and families in the child welfare system.

25. Parents who do not comply with their treatment plans should face contempt and possible jail time as a consequence.

26. If parents show that they have been using drugs contrary to court order, they should be sanctioned through limitation of visitation with their children.

27. The time frames for permanency for children under 6 (one year from the date of removal) is unreasonable in light of the problems faced by parents.

28. It is appropriate that we treat cases with young children in a more expedited fashion than we do for older children.

29. Delivering services closer to the family will improve outcomes for children and families.

30. In our community, the “system” should involve people from the community to plan and evaluate programs that serve families affected by child abuse/neglect.

31. In our community courts do a good job of involving community members in planning and evaluating programs that serve our families.

32. Judges as well as managers and supervisors at DHS have a responsibility to lead collaborative community responses to the problems posed by abuse and neglect.

33. Government cannot provide the primary answer to the problems posed by abuse and neglect. Instead, the family, community organizations and community members must act in concert with courts, attorneys and DHS.

34. Significant barriers to interagency cooperation would be removed if DHS, treatment providers, judicial officers and court system stakeholders were involved in training that stresses the values of collaboration.

35. Agenda • Assessing our Common Values: Building A Shared Vision • Systems Thinking: The Inter-Connectedness of Systems • Networking Lunch • Afternoon Session • Effective Assessments • Strategic Planning • Your leadership commitment • Conclusion and evaluation

36. Contact Information Presenter’s Name Title Email Address Phone #

40. Calvin’s Solution to Complex Systems

41. Systems Thinking • What I do influences the actions of others in two ways: • The expected, and • The unforeseen

42. What are your assumptions about the system?

43. Who is your Community?

44. Small Work Groups (20 minutes) • What are your assumptions about the problem? • Are the assumptions accurate? • Who are the people who must be at the table? • What are the possible solutions? • What intended and ancillary consequences are likely?

45. Agenda • Assessing our Common Values: Building A Shared Vision • Systems Thinking: The Inter-Connectedness of Systems • Networking Lunch • Afternoon Session • Assessment and Strategic Planning: Getting from Here to there • Conclusion and evaluation

46. Strategic Planning: Getting From Here to There

47. First:Get the Right People on the Bus and the Wrong People Off the Bus . . . and seek diversity

48. Communicate! “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste . . .” Rahm Emanuel Former White House Chief of Staff

49. Critical Components: • Environmental Scan(internal and external) • Strategic Planning

50. Tools for Conducting the Environmental Scan: • FAMJIS • Colorado Trails