Toward a DCFS Protective Timeline for Strengthening Families

1. Toward a DCFS Protective Timeline for Strengthening Families

2. Family Supportive Child Welfare Services Protective Factors Parental Resilience • Quality Child Welfare Services • Practice strategies for: • Reunification • Permanency • Child protection with intact families • Etc. • ? To Be Determined ? • Prevention of childabuse & neglect • Promotion of well-being, safety, & permanency, Social Connections Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development Concrete Supports in Times of Need Social and Emotional Competence of Children Healthy Parent- Child Relationship

3. Strategic Goals for Strengthening Families • 1. Embed the Protective Factors in all child welfare practices and initiatives • 2. Ensure children 3–5 in child welfare system are enrolled in quality early care and education • 3. Ensure collaboration at the community level among early childhood programs and agencies • Advance developmentally appropriate and trauma-informed child welfare practice • Work with public and private agencies to embed Protective Factors in child- and family-serving systems.

4. Common Framework: Protective Timeline DCFS / POS Case Planning with Family Strengthening Families Child Protective Services Integrated Assessment Strengthening Families Achieving Permanency Community Follow-Up Safety Planning Serving Intact Families Comprehensive Front-End Assessment Ensuring Child Safety Ensuring Permanency Older Wards Aging Out Early Learning Community Approaches Concurrent Planning Early Permanency Trauma-Informed Practice

5. Levers for making the Protective Factors paradigm shift • Case reviews • Service planning • Courts • Communications • Funding streams • Policies • Tools, assessments, checklists • Provider database • Training • Performance contracting quality assurance tools • Performance evaluation

6. ETV Appropriation TOS Table Age Rate Table Chafee Misc. Categorical Grants Title IV-B I Title IV-B II Receivables Collected FCS Output File FCS TANF TOS Table TANF/EA System TANF/EA Output Receivables Recognized MARS CYCIS Children’s Accounts Payroll TFEDS Tables Title XX Adjustments Title XIX Medicaid Waiver Savings POS RMS DCFS RMS Provider Billings DHS CCDF SACWIS

7. TANF/EA 17.1% $215,679,922 $68,800,000 $146,879,922 Title XX 1.3% $16,402,802 $0 $16,402,802 Title IV-B I 1.2% $15,124,977 $11,343,733 Title XIX 4.0% $50,968,505 $0 $25,484,232 Title IV-B II 1.7% $20,981,000 $15,735,750 SSI 1.2% $15,632,363 $2,632,363 $13,000,000 Chafee 4.7% $59,180,966 $5,015,701 ETV 0.2% $2,924,154 $1,719,931 Title IV-E 45.0% $568,900,217 $285,175,740 CCDF 1.8% $22,407,670 $0 Misc. Grants 0.3% $4,042,226 $3,746,089 Unclaimed 21.5% $272,214,280

8. Goal 1: • Embed protective factors across all child welfare practice and initiatives • In assessment tools like: • Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) • Parental Readiness for Permanency and Reunification Worksheet • Through training …

9. Common Language

10. “We Know You Love Your Kids … ”

11. Goal 1: Why embed the Protective Factors across all DCFS domains? DCFS should not be in the business of raising children, it should be in the business of strengthening families.

12. Goal 2: Ensure that children 3–5 years of age in the child welfare system are enrolled in early care and education settings—mandatory for wards, voluntary for intact and post-adoption families

13. Goal 2: What has been done to enroll DCFS kids in early childhood education? Rule 314 and POS contracts have been changed to require enrollment in early learning, and training, materials, and research are taking place to ensure implementation and follow-up.

14. Goal 3: Ensure collaboration at the community level among Head Starts, Pre-Ks, childcare centers, families and caseworkers

15. Goal 3: What has been done to ensure collaboration at the community level? • School Minder – Rotational intake • Statewide provider database • Collaborative agreements with Head Start grantee agencies • SFI Learning Networks statewide where DCFS caseworkers and ECE providers plan services for wards together • Early childhood / child welfare liaisons: 7 new staff positions • Partnership with child welfare agencies that also run child care centers

16. Goal 4: Advance developmentally appropriate and trauma-informed child welfare practice

17. Goal 4: What has been done to advance developmentally appropriate & trauma-informed child welfare practice? Integrated Assessment (plans to extend to intact family cases); Trauma curriculum training for caseworkers and caregivers; Trauma treatment with developmentally appropriate, evidence-based clinical interventions; Moving trauma-based treatment approaches to all children in traditional or relative foster care

18. Goal 5: Work with public and private agencies to embed Protective Factors in child- and family-serving systems.

19. Goal 5: Objectives, FY 2009 Create incentives for SFI training / capacity building: ECE center licensing requirement Create plan for engaging cities Embed Strengthening Families ideas and practices in Preschool for All (DCFS representation on all committees & co-chair Special Populations Committee) Collaborative work with ISBE and DHS

20. “Primary responsibility for the development and well-being of children lies within the family, and all segments of society must support families as they rear their children.” --Family Resource Coalition, 1996