The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network – SWAN MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU

Let’s Start With Some History

October 1992 SWAN Introduced as Casey Administration Initiative…

October 1992 SWAN was created to:  Increase adoptions  Provide adoption services where they didn’t exist

Fiscal Year counties participated… …and spent a total of $167,000

7/1/94 to 6/30/95 Key

Fiscal Year  Performance-based  Standardized units of service  Dollars based on affiliate capacity

GROWTH of a NETWORK Fiscal Year# of CountiesSWAN Dollars $1,226, $1,369, $3,650, $5,064, $6,382,250

Fiscal Year  Released First Help Manual  Adoption Legal Services Project began in Allegheny County  Introduced SWAN Helpline  Nurturing the Network

Six Key Missions Direct Practice in SWAN

Mission One  Every child in foster care deserves to achieve permanency in a timely manner

Mission Two Every child with a goal of adoption deserves a permanent family

Mission Three County agencies must be supported to prioritize and provide permanency services

Mission Four Delays in achieving permanency must not be due to: Race Culture Age Geography Ability Case priority level

Mission Five Permanent families must be developed for every waiting child

Mission Six Resource families who step forward to provide “Continuum of Care” to children in child welfare system must be supported to remain intact

Fiscal Year Contract awarded to Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries in partnership with Family Design Resources

Fiscal Year Theme of Diakon/FDR’s response was “Capacity-Building” and the Network grew…

SWAN’s Dollars and Services Increased Fiscal Year# Of CountiesSWAN Dollars $6,987, $7,157, $8,583, $11,237, $15,558,250

and INCREASED… Fiscal Year# Of CountiesSWAN Dollars $13,164, $10,121, $9,018, $27,000, $31,000,000 allocated

Fiscal Years  SWAN Bulletin revised  All permanency goals served by SWAN  LSI program expanded  Focused on Older Youth/Partnership with IL

Let’s Talk about Permanency …SWA(P)N We all share a piece of the pie

ROLES: Who does what?  SWAN affiliates  Non-SWAN providers

How can you use SWAN’s Resources? SWAN Order Form Subcontracting Support Training Resources Web site Warmline

Subcontracting  Mentoring Guidelines  Technical Assistance Support

TRAINING RESOURCES  Child Profile  Child Preparation  Post-Permanency services  Regional, Quarterly, Statewide meetings

Web site

WARMLINE  , OPTION 2  LSI section of Web site

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