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Collaboration Counts:Answering the Call
John D. Damon, Ph.D.Chief Operating Officer
Mississippi Children’s Home [email protected]
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Overview
• Introduction to Mississippi Children’s Home Services (MCHS)
• Summit Context
• Summit Preparation
• Summit Activities
• Summit Follow-up
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Summit Context
• Federal CFSR and PIP
• Post-Katrina Realities/Images
• PIP revisited for Gulf Cost
• Contributions to MCHS
• Public/Private Partnership
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Housing
• Shortage of housing• 134,000 homes were
damaged• Affected all
socioeconomic groups
• Federal and low income housing– 4 lost in Hancock Co.
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Transportation
• Traffic• Two major bridges
were destroyed• Street signs missing• Many roads are still
closed• Gasoline prices have
increased
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Support Services
• Churches• Nonprofit
organizations• Medical• Dental• Counselors• Shelter closed
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Social Issues
• Domestic Violence• Drug and Alcohol • Posttraumatic Stress• Depression• Anxiety• Suicide
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Extending Hope
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Summit Preparation
• Individuals Drawn from Cross-Section of Public and Private Child Welfare Providers
• Rated Sixteen (16) Focal Areas on a Likert-type Scale:1 – Not at all Critical 10 – Extremely Critical
• Identified Existing Strengths, Current Weaknesses, and Proposed Solutions
• Narrowed to 10 Priority Focus Areas
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Overview of Summit Activities
• Day one– Tour of Gulf Coast
• Day two– National consultant to facilitate– Overview presentations by public &
private agency– Pre-defined groups and group
Chairpersons– Chairperson received advanced
data– Narrowed focused to 10 priority
focus areas– Groups networked together– Planning session and group
presentation
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Assessment Results
• Participant Demographics
• Summary of Pre-Katrina Ratings
• Summary of Post-Katrina Ratings
• Comparison of Pre- & Post-Katrina Ratings
• Average Ratings
• Summary of Priority Focus Areas
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Participants’ States of Origin*
*11 States and DC
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MS Cities Represented*
*15 MS Cities
Gulf Coast Communities
Non-Gulf Coast Communities
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Recruitin
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Basic
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7.757.43
7.076.89 6.86 6.79 6.73 6.61
6.41 6.34 6.27 6.25 6.23 6.18
5.63
5.14
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3.00
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Focal Areas
Pre-Katrina Ratings
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Basic
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9.46 9.419.11
8.84 8.73 8.71 8.68 8.59 8.55 8.52 8.458.27 8.23 8.18
7.687.55
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Post-Katrina Ratings
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Average Score
Focal Areas
Pre-Katrina
Post-Katrina
Pre-Katrina and Post-Katrina Ratings
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6.87
6.97
7.07
7.26
7.29
7.30
7.39
7.47
7.69
7.73
7.76
7.79
7.85
7.91
7.99
8.43
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Recruiting, Trianing, Retaining StaffChild Protection
Immediate and Long-term Disaster PlanningAccessing Resources
Mental Health/Substance Abuse ServicesIn-Home Services
Resource FamiliesPublic/Private Partnerships
Child CareOut of Home Care
Basic Living IssuesCommunication & Leadership
Permanency ServicesRecreational Activities
Youth Courts/Court SystemEducation (Local and State)
Average Ratings
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1. Basic Living Issues
(e.g., housing, safety, displacement, transportation, jobs,
etc.)
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1. Basic Living Issues• Existing Strengths (14 responses)
– People who want to put their lives back together. – There is an abundance of jobs right now. – None.
• Current Weaknesses (21 responses)– No affordable housing, transportation is limited. There are some jobs
available. Safety is an issue in the FEMA trailer parks. – Affordable housing is nonexistent. Current rates are raising while
incomes are remaining the same. Limited choices so people must deal with issues that were not there before storm.
– Many....too many to talk about....what a mess.• Proposed Solutions (14 responses)
– Monitor apartment complexes more closely regarding rent increases, look at building affordable housing for people who are already here instead of condos to bring more people in.
– Rebuilding of the infrastructure.
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10. Permanency Services
(e.g., family reunification, family preservation, adoption,
independent living, etc.)
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Basic
Living
Issu
es
Imm
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and
Lon
g-te
rm D
isaste
r Plan
ning
Recruitin
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Retaining
Sta
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Resource
Familie
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Child C
are
Public
/Priv
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artn
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Child P
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tion
Recreat
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Family
Sup
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Servic
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Perm
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ervice
s
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
7.00
8.00
9.00
10.00
Average Score
Focal Areas
Pre-Katrina
Post-Katrina
Pre-Katrina and Post-Katrina Ratings
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Charge to Answer the Call
• Define Group Roles– Recorder, Presenter, Time Keeper, etc.
• Develop Action Plan– Goals (Example Follows)
• Objectives– Strategies
• Lunch• Present Action Plans• Plan Next Steps
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Permanency Services
(e.g., family reunification, family preservation, adoption,
independent living, etc.)
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Permanency Services
• Achieve timely permanency by protecting and supporting the resource families who care for children who can not live with their families because they have been removed due to abuse and neglect. This includes protection, information, training, practical necessities, financial and other supports and networking.
• Permanency also includes strengthening families so they can safely be together.
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Goals
• Resource Family Support
• Court Improvement
• Family Centered Practice
• Adolescent Permanency and Independent Living
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Goal 1: (Resource Family Support)
• Practical Support
• Local resources for basic needs (clothes, beds). Seek additional grants, philanthropy and state funding
• Foster parent association -- strengthening• Disaster shelter and supplies for resource families
(partner with churches) • Explore additional resources and supports for
kinship care and rules/statutes for kinship
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Goal 1: (Resource Families)
• Protection• Q&A with resource parents and courts, DHS about
abuse allegations and other DHS procedures and what happens
• Training on the above as well for both DHS workers and resource families
• Protecting families from sexual predators – advocate for changes in FEMA regulations
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Goal 1: (Resource Families)
• Information
• Explore 211 and resource guides from communities, build onto United Way efforts
• ID Cards for children with social security numbers and Medicaid and emergency numbers
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Goal 2: (Court Improvement)
• Timely TPR and Adoption• Statewide Parent Locator Service – send materials to right
place• DHS, Court (GAL) and AG resources for locating parents• Process map the TPR process through DCIP and identify
best practices• Ensure that DHS and other staff are trained on the federal
timelines• DHS should send package to AG and state at the time TPR
is ordered• More avenues of user-friendly information (web) and places
to follow up regarding questions on topics such as adoption subsidy, etc. For those in court as well as citizens in general.
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Goal 2: (Court Improvement)
• DCIP• Explore possibility of federal DCIP funding • Roundtables/meetings with foster parents and
court (as done by Judge Sigalas)
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Goal 2: (Court Improvement)
• GAL Strengthening and Attorneys for Parents
• Look at full time GALS• Juvenile Justice Reform Act – GALS and public
defenders must have annual training• Attorneys for parents – look for methods to find
money for this • For relatives that are seeking guardianship – seek
to get attorneys that will do this work pro bono or funding
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Goal 3: (Adolescent Permanency)
• Detention and IL are not acceptable permanency options
• Building mentoring models so teens have a mentoring family if not a resource family
• Require children over age of 13 to come to court in person for permanency planning and hearings
• Training in adolescence and issues of adolescence• Recruiting families who will take teens
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Goal 4: (Family Centered Practice)
• Maintaining children in their homes safely
• Family team conferencing model• Concurrent planning – training – use assistance of
Resource Center for state and Court
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Summary Comments
• Every child deserves a permanent solution and we all have to help arrive their
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Continuing to Answer the Call through Sustained Partnerships
Full Report: www.mchscares.org/summit