California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference

1. California Child Welfare Co-Investment PartnershipChildren’s Conference Monterey, California May 29, 2008

2. Co-Investment PartnershipChildren’s Conference • AGENDA • Welcome and Introductions • Purpose of Focus Group • Discussion • Partnership Overview • Next Steps

3. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Purpose of Focus Group • New organization • Identity development • What is the perception

4. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Discussion Questions • Partners

5. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Partnership Purpose • To ensure a coordinated, collaborative approach to the investments needed to improve the child welfare outcomes. • Champions key investments: collaborate on statewide investments to improve child welfare outcomes • Promotes strategic approaches: identify promising ideas, monitor outcomes, document results and advocate to sustain and spread proven strategies. • Educates policymakers: provide key leaders with information to ensure that public policies support promising practices and improve child welfare outcomes.

7. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Partnership Structure • Investing Partners Identify Priorities Based on Advisory Committee Recommendations • Advisory Committee Proposes Strategies and Activities • Strategies are Defined, Workgroups Formed and Research and Other Activities Conducted

8. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Partnership Diagram here

9. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • 2008 Partnership Priorities • Older Youth Permanency • Supporting family connections by sustaining training that promotes permanency • Sustain Youth Permanency Training • Transition & Evaluation Plan • Foster Youth Education • coordinating approaches to education supports for foster youth Integrate existing collaborative efforts

10. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • 2008 Partnership Priorities • Resource Family Recruitment Development & Support • coordinating improvements for those who care for foster children Older Youth Permanency Support the Implementation of AB 340 – the Melding Pilot • Mental Health • Developing collaborative connections between child welfare and mental health agencies • Convening Workgroup to develop recommendations

11. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • 2008 Partnership Priorities - still in development • Kinship Support • Educate state and local policy makers about benefit of federal program proposals • Youth & Family Engagement • Promote Expansion of TDM

12. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • 2008 Work Group Activities

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15. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • The Workforce and Leadership Development workgroup will complete activities and achieve objectives currently in process by June 2008. • An Ad Hoc Workgroup on Sustaining Youth Permanency Training and Technical Assistance - Begin May 2008 • The Practice Development and Evaluation workgroup will complete activities and achieve objectives currently in process and complete their work by April 2008. • An Ad Hoc Workgroup on the Landscape Decision Making Tool/Schematic will begin April 2008 – September 2008

16. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Work Group Transition Plan (Cont’d) • The Shared Responsibility and Accountability workgroup will transition into two separate workgroups • An Ad Hoc Workgroup on Mental Health and Child Welfare - Begin February 2008 • An Ad Hoc Workgroup on Education Integration - Begin June 2008 • An Ad Hoc Workgroup on Melding Pilot AB 340 Begin - TBD

17. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Work Group Transition Plan (Cont’d) • The Supportive Policy and Fiscal Environment Workgroup • Develop a process for educating policy members about Co-Investment priorities and the importance of sustaining improvements to date.

18. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Public Education and Outreach • Overview - 2008 Goals • Update and align strategic plan to address current political and fiscal environment, leverage existing opportunities and ensure continued progress. • Continue Advisory Committee’s work to build and support an infrastructure that will ensure coordinated, collaborative and consistent implementation of key strategies and promising practices. • Continue Public Education and Outreach to improve understanding of California’s child welfare system, current improvement efforts and the need to support proven approaches.

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20. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • Policy Priority Areas in 2008 include: • supporting family connections by sustaining training that promotes permanency • coordinating approaches to education supports for foster youth • developing collaborative connections between child welfare and mental health agencies • coordinating improvements for those who care for foster children

21. Co-Investment Partnership Children’s Conference • NEXT STEPS