Children’s Aid Society of Brant

1. Children’s Aid Society of Brant 2009 – 2010 BALANCED SCORECARD Presented to CAS of Brant Board of Directors on October 14, 2010

2. Contextual Background

3. Community: Brantford/Brant County/Six Nations/New Credit

4. Community: Brantford & Brant County

5. Community: Six Nations & New Credit

6. Community: Demographics • Demographic information unless indicated otherwise is from Statistics Canada 2006 Canadian Census for the Brantford Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) • This Area includes: • City of Brantford, • County of Brant • portion of Six Nations Reserve

7. Community (cont’d) Brantford CMA

8. Community (cont’d) Brantford CMA

9. Community (cont’d) Six Nations of the Grand River Monthly Membership Statistics As of the end of Gana gaht / May 2010

10. Community (cont’d) Six Nations of the Grand River Total Percentage of Members Residing within the Six Nations of the Grand Territory

11. Community (cont’d) Six Nations of the Grand River Member Residency within the Six Nations of the Grand Territory

12. Community (cont’d) Trends & Challenges: • Population growth is approximately 1% less than provincial average • Unemployment levels are higher than national average • Downturn in manufacturing sector and resultant plant closures such as Eagle Precision Technologies, Emerson, Crane Canada, etc.

13. Children’s Aid Society of Brant Families Who are the parents that we work with? There are a lot of ‘unknowns’ in the data, however, they are typically: • Female • Single-parent • Employed or receiving social assistance

14. Children’s Aid Society of Brant Children–in-care The ‘average’ child-in-care is: • male (57%) • between ages of 10 & 20 (64%) • English-speaking (100%) • non-native (68.9%) • born in Brantford (57.9%)

15. Children’s Aid Society of Brant Children –in-care In addition, our ‘average’ child-in-care: • was admitted due to parenting capacity (i.e. parental substance abuse, mental illness, inability to provide care, etc.) • came into care at age 7 • is a crown ward, and • resides in Society Foster Care

16. What is a balanced scorecard? Performance

17. Reasons for Changes to Data Collection

18. Effectiveness:Doing the right thing

19. Child Protection Services

20. Child Protection ServicesSafety

21. Child Protection ServicesPermanency – Part I

22. Child Protection ServicesPermanency – Part II

23. Child Protection ServicesChild-focused Family Centered Services NEW

24. Out-of-home care services

25. Out-of-home Care ServicesSafety

26. Out-of-home Care ServicesContinuity

27. Out-of-home Care ServicesContinuity (cont’d)

28. Out-of-home Care ServicesContinuity (cont’d)

29. Out-of-home Care ServicesContinuity (cont’d)

30. Out-of-home Care ServicesChild Wellbeing

31. Out-of-home Care ServicesChild Wellbeing • Measures of child well-being are based on the Ontario’s Looking After Children Summary Objectives found in the plan of care • Each Summary Objective question has three or more responses which range from a ‘poor’ outcome to an ‘optimal’ outcome

32. Out-of-home Care ServicesChild Wellbeing (cont’d) • In calculating a score for each outcome, the ‘poor’ outcome is assigned a 0 while the optimal outcome is assigned a 1. Outcomes in between are awarded a .5 and represent an ‘average’ outcome

33. Out-of-home Care ServicesChild Wellbeing (con’td)

34. Out-of-home Care ServicesSuccessful Preparation for Independence

35. Efficiency:Doing things right

36. ServicesWorkload Management

37. ServicesWorkload Management (cont’d)

38. ServicesWorkload Management (cont’d)

39. ServicesSupportive Work Environment

40. Brant CAS Statistics