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G-FORCE MEETING October 23, 2008

Highlights from the Office of Family Independence, including the Food Stamp Error Rate, increase in TANF and Food Stamp cases, and updates on Child Protective Services.

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G-FORCE MEETING October 23, 2008

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  1. G-FORCE MEETINGOctober 23, 2008 ON THE ROAD TO GREATNESS!

  2. OFFICE OF FAMILY INDEPENDENCEHIGHLIGHTS • Food Stamp Error Rate is 2.13%! • Increase in the number of TANF & Food Stamp cases. • Work participation rate decreased from 68.3% to 66.7%. • All regions meeting Standard of Promptness in TANF, Medicaid and Food Stamp Regular.

  3. FOOD STAMP ERROR RATE! For May, 2008, Georgia was number FOUR in the nation in Food Stamp lowest amount of food stamp errors! (up from number 7 in April) Our cumulative error rate was 2.13%! We were number ONE for the FOURTH month in a row in most improved error rate, improving by 5.86% over this time last year. Finally, we have FOUR months to go in QC readings for FFY08. Congratulations and Keep Up the Great Work!

  4. LOWEST FOOD STAMP ERROR RATE TOP 3 STATES (CURRENTLY)

  5. Continuing to see an increase in Food Stamp households; increased by 10,224 from August to September and an increase of 17% from September 2007.

  6. The number of TANF adult cases have been increasing since July 2008.

  7. CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICESHIGHLIGHTS • Increase in the number of CPS cases from August to September 2008 (877 more cases). • Timeliness of investigation remains at 93% for September; lowest since September 2007. • Only three regions at 99.5% or above (Regions 6, 9 & 11). • Increase in the number of family support cases from July to August. Approximately 53% of all intakes reported were provided with family support services. • Rate of substantiations have increased by 13% from a year ago. • Recurrence of maltreatment rate is 2.95%; highest since February 2008 but still far below the national standard of 5.40%.

  8. Increase in CPS cases primarily in Investigations.

  9. SUMMER TREND FOR INTAKES Consistent pattern of decreasing intakes in June and July and an increase in August. However, the increase for 2008 has not been as steep as in previous years. In 2006, there was a 42% increase and in 2007 there was a 39%; however, in 2008, there was only a 9% increase in the number of cases from July to August.

  10. AUTUMN TREND FOR INTAKES The trend for 2006 and 2007 has been that of decreasing intakes from October to November and continuing into December. Next month, we will be able to determine whether this trend continues.

  11. TIMELINESS OF INVESTIGATION September 2007 – September 2008 Question: What factors continue to contribute to overdue pending investigations? What strategies need to be implemented to improve timeliness of investigations?

  12. TIMELINESS OF INVESTIGATION BY REGION FOR SEPTEMBER 2008 Only three regions had timeliness rates of 99.5% or above for September.

  13. Note: Of the 726 cases substantiated and opened, 544 or 75% were opened in Family Preservation and 182 or 25% were opened for permanency (foster care).

  14. The purpose of this chart is to show the disposition of substantiated investigations. For reports received in August, 1,076 investigations were substantiated. Of those, 544 or 51% were opened for Family Preservation services, and 182 or 17% were opened for Permanency services (foster care). There are 350 or 32% were closed {further research to determine how many of these may have been opened for permanency services/placement}.

  15. DISPOSITION OF REPORTSAUGUST 2008 53% of the reports received in August were provided with Family Support services; 15% were unsubstantiated/closed; 14% were screened out and 18% were substantiated.

  16. FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICESAUGUST 2008 State average=53% Family Support Services ranged from 23% to 65% of dispositions for reports received in August by region.

  17. UNSUBSTANTIATED & CLOSEDAUGUST 2008 State average=15% The percentage of investigations that were unsubstantiated and closed ranged from 7% to 30% across the regions.

  18. FAMILY SUPPORT BY UNSUBSTANTIATED CLOSED Blue line indicates State averages The regions who are above the State average of 53% in Family Support cases tend to be below the State average of 15% for unsubstantiated and closed cases.

  19. SUBSTANTIATION TRENDAugust 2006 – August 2008 The percentage of substantiated investigations have risen by 13% over the past two years, how might this percentage be increased over the next six months?

  20. REGIONAL SUBSTANTIATION PATTERNAugust 2008 Blue line indicates State averages Nine regions exceed the state’s rate of substantiated investigations (54%) while several regions have more than 50% unsubstantiated and closed investigations (Regions 1, 5, 13 and 16).

  21. SUBSTANTIATION COMPARISONAugust 2007 & August 2008 State=54% State=47% There has been a 7% increase in the substantiation rate statewide from 2007-2008. However, Regions 2, 9, 14 & 15 have seen a 14% or higher increase in their substantiation rates for August 2008.

  22. 40,896 cases received Family Support Services from October 2007 to September 2008.

  23. Of the cases that received Family Support services from August 2007 to July 2008, 2.32% have become substantiated CPS cases.

  24. 105,371 cases have received Family Support Services since its implementation in July 2004; 30% of these cases have been in Regions 17, 5 and 2.

  25. Of the 105,371 cases that have received Family Support services since its implementation, 5.93% of them have become substantiated CPS cases.

  26. FAMILY SUPPORT CASES THAT BECAME SUBSTANTIATED CPS CASES(July 2004 – June 2008) This graph reflects the percentage of family support cases that have become substantiated CPS cases during the past year. Currently, there is no national standard associated with this measure. Should state establish its own target?

  27. INCREASING FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES & DECREASING UNSUBSTANTIATED/CLOSED CASES • Ability to devote and invest resources where it is needed most. • Investigating only those cases that truly require this response. • Several regions are reviewing their unsubstantiated/closed cases to determine whether appropriate decision was made or if case could have received a family support response and then training staff as necessary. • Increasing knowledge of staff who are responsible for intakes so they can obtain information necessary to determine the most appropriate response to reports of abuse/neglect. • Overall, staff are developing a sense of confidence in their skills regarding assessing the most appropriate needs of our families. • Regions developed Wildly Important Goals related to front door practices and have seen improvements in their outcomes.

  28. SAFETY 1 September: 97.05%

  29. RECURRENCE OF MALTREATMENTAugust 2007 – September 2008 National Standard = less than or equal to 5.40% DANGER! THIN ICE! CAUTION

  30. FOCUS ON PERMANENCYFOR CHILDREN

  31. PERMANENCY SERVICES FOR CHILDRENHIGHLIGHTS • The number of children in DFCS custody continue to decrease (11,463 in September). • Foster care re-entry rate increased slightly to 5.79%; still below the national standard of 8.60%. • The percent of children reunified in less than 12 months is at 61.2%; below the national standard of 76.2%. • The number of substantiated cases of maltreatment in care decreased since last month.

  32. PERMANENCY FOR CHILDREN • The belief and value that every child and young person deserves a permanent family relationship is paramount. • Permanence is about locating and supporting a lifetime family. • Permanency is not a philosophical process, nor is it intended to last only until the child turns 18. • Permanency means we are establishing strong, committed, and lasting ties of affection for children.

  33. PLANNING FOR PERMANENCY • Should begin at entry into care • Be youth-driven • Family-focused • Culturally competent • Continuous • Approached with urgency PERMANENCY

  34. Slight decrease in the number of cases in DFCS custody from August to September. However, there has been an 11% decrease from September 2007 and a 16% decrease from September 2006.

  35. FOSTER CARE RE-ENTRIESAugust 2007 – September 2008 National Standard = less than or equal to 8.60% DANGER! THIN ICE! CAUTION

  36. PERMANENCY COMPOSITE 1

  37. State is below the national standard of 76.2% or greater on this measure. In September, of all the children who exited foster care by reunification with their family, only 61.19% were reunified in less than 12 months from their removal date.

  38. NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN DFCS CUSTODYSFY 2008 The number of children in DFCS custody decreased by 1,411 during State Fiscal Year 2008.

  39. FOSTER CARE ENTRIES & EXITSSFY 2008 During SFY2008, more children exited care than entered.

  40. PERCENT OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE BY AGE IN SFY2008

  41. DISCHARGE REASONS FOR CHILDREN WHO EXITED CARE IN SFY2008 Note. An additional 2% of children were on runaway or were transferred to another agency (RYDC) at the time of their 18th birthday. In the future, we will compare this to national measures for the rate of discharge from care by reason to obtain a point of comparison to measure how we are doing.

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