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P3 services are being provided at each of the DCFS offices, with one or more staff assigned to each office. Currently, there are 74 P3 CSWs and 12 P3 SCSWs, working part-time, with most being DCFS retirees (not to exceed 120 days per year). While P3 services are available for all regional offices, L.A. County plans to further expand resources for P3 due to its success in achieving permanency for youth. Each office has created a process to refer youth that are 12-18 years old and in long term foster care to their P3 staff. Once the P3 section receives the referral, it is screened for suitability and, if accepted, assigned to a P3 worker. As of September 2007, P3 has provided P3 services to 2099 youth. Approximately, 39% (832) of the youth now have a legally permanent plan identified or established. A total of 57 youth have returned home to a parent and had their child welfare case closed, 25 youth have returned home and continue to have their case supervised by DCFS and 157 are moving towards reunification with a parent. In addition, 10 youth have been adopted, 5 youth are in adoptive placements and 242 youth who were previously opposed to adoption are now involved in adoption planning. Finally, 25 youth have had a legal guardian appointed and their cases closed through KinGAP, 84 youth are in a legal guardianship and continue to have their case supervised by DCFS and 227 youth have a plan of legal guardianship identified and are moving through the court process. Concurrent Planning Redesign: Concurrent Planning Redesign has been developed as a joint Labor-Management initiative to address the goal of returning children that have entered foster care into safe, stable, and lifelong homes. In working towards this goal, the Concurrent Planning Redesign Pilot Phase I and Phase II have been implemented in order to serve all children in out-of-home care. The concept of concurrent planning involves setting up an alternative permanent plan, while at the same time providing Family Reunification Services for a detained child. Simultaneously preparing for an alternative permanent plan while working with a family toward Family Reunification does not mean that DCFS is not committed to assisting the family to strengthen itself; it means that DCFS is committed to providing timely permanence for children. Planning for permanence ensures that all reasonable efforts to safely maintain the child at home, or safely reunify the child with his or her family will be made. It also means that if the child cannot be maintained in or returned to the family of origin, another permanent family is prepared to meet the child’s need for permanence in a timely manner. Los Angeles County DCFS Concurrent Planning Redesign initiative began the spring of 2004 at the first of many labor/management collaborative meetings. The collaborative meetings resulted in the implementation of systemic changes which are now known as 24
Concurrent Planning Redesign (CPR). The coordinated roll out of CPR in each DCFS office began with the Lakewood office in March 2005. The roll out has continued to July 2007 when the last of 18 DCFS offices completed the training and implementation of CPR. The roll-out of Concurrent Planning Redesign includes systematic work-shift changes in the form of: • Use of new family background information gathering strategies • Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) for adoption cases becomes a team responsibility with the Dependency Investigator coordinating the team. • Permanency (Adoption) staff is assigned the case earlier and assume full responsibility for all adoption-related activities. • Family Maintenance and Reunification social worker remains the primary case manager through adoption finalization and termination of jurisdiction, thus maintaining a consistent CSW for the child and stopping a case transfer that can delay permanency. • Integration of CPR with other offices strategies, Points of Engagement (POE), Team Decision Making (TDM), Permanency Partners Program (P3), Multidisciplinary Assessment Team (MAT) and Family Finding. • Full Disclosure with children, birth parents, caregiver and others involved in the child’s life by all Children Social Workers throughout the life of the case. • Monthly office-based Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) meetings which facilitate teamwork, office review and action items related to the CPR process. • Participation in central monthly Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) meetings which facilitate CPR evaluation, review and action items by representatives from the offices. Representatives are staff from all levels and from a variety of programs. A team of five CPR technical support staff are instrumental in assisting office staff in the coordination and understanding of Concurrent Planning Redesign and establishing and maintaining efficient systems and consistency among offices. The Department CIP meetings, the office CQI meetings and ongoing workgroups and projects maintain and enhance the efficiency and quality of the CPR process. The Wraparound Program: Under the auspices of Senate Bill 163, the County of Los Angeles has provided Wraparound services to both DCFS and Probation families and their children/youth with multiple, complex and enduring needs since 1998. Wraparound is an integrated, multiagency, community-based process grounded in a philosophy of unconditional commitment to support families to safely and competently care for their children. The single most important outcome of the Wraparound approach is a child thriving in a permanent home and maintained by normal community services and supports. 25
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Page 5 and 6: SECTION I INTRODUCTION 5
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Page 11 and 12: DCFS Caseload by Age: - 15 years 11
Page 13 and 14: · Lastly, the South Bay/Harbor are
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Page 21 and 22: (Appendix I shows a detailed TDM Ou
Page 23: Initial FSNA 37.1% n = 5,516 The Pe
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Page 31 and 32: SECTION III CHILD WELFARE OUTCOMES
Page 33 and 34: Below is a summary chart of Los Ang
Page 35 and 36: Measure C1.1 Percent of Children Re
Page 37 and 38: Measure C2.3 Adoption Within 12 Mon
Page 39 and 40: Measure C4.1 Placement Stability (8
Page 41 and 42: Measure 4A Siblings - Some or All P
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