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Conducted by the Steering Committee and other Regional Academy partners March – May, 2010

ADVANCING FAIRNESS AND EQUITY ACROSS THE STATE: FINDINGS OF A COUNTY-BASED TELEPHONE SURVEY June 15, 2010. Conducted by the Steering Committee and other Regional Academy partners March – May, 2010 A telephone interview with county administrators

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Conducted by the Steering Committee and other Regional Academy partners March – May, 2010

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  1. ADVANCING FAIRNESS AND EQUITY ACROSS THE STATE:FINDINGS OF A COUNTY-BASED TELEPHONE SURVEYJune 15, 2010

  2. Conducted by the Steering Committee and other Regional Academy partners • March – May, 2010 • A telephone interview with county administrators • All counties invited to participate through CWDA announcements • Voluntary

  3. Intended to gather descriptive data • 23 counties participated, including 3 regions of Los Angeles County • Bay Area: 11 of 12 counties • Central: 5 of 12 counties • Los Angeles • Northern: 3 of 28 counties • Southern: 3 of 5 counties

  4. SEVEN OPEN-ENDED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS • Formal structures (programs, task forces, committees, training) • Tools • Community partners • Budget constraints • PQCRs & SIPs • Transfer of Learning • Training Needs

  5. FORMAL STRUCTURES • Diversity of Approaches • Large-scale national or state programs (Family to Family, CA Disproportionality Project) • County-based programs (localized committees and task forces) • Both have multiple stakeholders • Wide variety of targeted activities

  6. INTRA-AGENCY INTERVENTIONS • Cultural competency • Organizational culture • Civil rights • Workforce staffing • Training (more detail to come) • May involve interfacing with one other agency

  7. TOOLS • DATA • CDSS/CSSR Child Welfare Dynamic Report System, SafeMeasures, Business Objects • Other data tracking and analyses • ASSESSMENTS • SDM, CAT, and other assessment processes • PROGRAMS & QUALITY ASSURANCE • Differential Response, Family Finding, TDMs • Reviews of policies, procedures & services

  8. COMMUNITY PARTNERS • Kinship providers, youth and parent advocates • Cultural brokers • CBOs targeting ethnicity or children’s services • Health organizations • Courts • Other government agencies • Family resource centers • Community members and workgroups

  9. BUDGET CONSTRAINTS • Some counties “not impacted” • Other counties indicated that budget cuts: • Resulted in layoffs, including bilingual staff • Restricted service delivery • Restricted F&E activities, including training • CWS also affected by cuts to non-profits • Glass half full phenomenon: • Necessity for creativity, efficiency, restructuring • Seeking and obtaining more grant funding

  10. PQCRs & SIPs • Many responding counties included F&E in their PQCRs & SIPs • Bay Area: 6 of 11 responding counties • Central: all 5 responding counties • Los Angeles: 1 of 1 • Northern: 1 of 3 responding counties • Southern: all 3 responding counties • Wide array of strategies (see handout for details)

  11. TRANSFER OF LEARNING • Supervisory reviews of cases, policies, & procedures • Use of unit meetings • Facilitated conversations • Staff present on trainings & provide materials • Toolkits distributed to supervisors after staff trainings • Field-based trainers

  12. EXISTING F&E TRAINING • Deeper Awareness Training • Three to Five • Bridges Out of Poverty • Historical Oppression Series • Undoing Racism Series • ERDD • Trainings packaged within specialized committees, units, or staff development

  13. EXISTING F&E TRAINING (continued) • Skin and hair training (to care for children of color) • Cultural competency trainings • Trainings about specific cultural groups • Trainings about disproportionality and race • Civil rights trainings • Motivational interviewing

  14. REQUESTED TRAINING • Self-awareness • Bias in child welfare settings • How a supervisor could recognize worker biases • Sensitivity across all dimensions of diversity from socioeconomic to sexual orientation • Specific ethnic/cultural groups • Family engagement for different cultures • Institutional racism, racial sobriety, disproportionality, and disparities • Effects of unnecessary placements and lengthy stays in care

  15. REQUESTED TRAINING (continued) • Practical, solution-focused training for management and staff • Critical thinking for decision making • Co-training with Probation • How to engage incarcerated parents • Data retrieval and use in the classroom • How to run TDM meetings • Recruiting of bilingual, bicultural staff

  16. FINDING SOLUTIONS • Accomplishments over the past 8 years • Evolution • Naming the problem • Deciding to do something about it • But what? And how? • Experimental stages • The need for evaluation

  17. OUR NEXT STEPS AS TRAINERS AND EDUCATORS • Are we addressing all aspects of F&E and emphasizing the most critical issues? • What can be shared with neighboring counties? • What can be done by small counties? • What can be done that isn’t capital-intensive? • KEEP IN MIND FOR THE CALIFORNIA CAFÉ

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