1. HOPES III Community Meeting Webinar:
March 2016

2. What does the Prevention and Early Intervention division do?
Meeting Agenda
Welcome
What does the Prevention and Early Intervention division do?
HOPES Background
Partnership with the Texas Home Visitation Program
HOPES Vision
Next Steps
Conclusion
PEI logo?

3. What does the Prevention and Early Intervention division do?

4. PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES DIVISION.
PEI’s Function and Purpose
Texas Family Code Sec
PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES DIVISION.
"Prevention and early intervention services" means:
programs intended to provide early intervention or prevent at-risk behaviors that lead to child abuse, delinquency, running away, truancy, and dropping out of school.

5. Texas Family Code Sec. 265.002, continued
PEI’s Function and Purpose
Texas Family Code Sec , continued
The division shall be called the prevention and early intervention services division and shall have the following duties:
to plan, develop, and administer a comprehensive and unified delivery system of prevention and early intervention services to children and their families in at-risk situations;
(2) to improve the responsiveness of services for at-risk children and their families by facilitating greater coordination and flexibility in the use of funds by state and local service providers;
(3) to provide greater accountability for prevention and early intervention services in order to demonstrate the impact or public benefit of a program by adopting outcome measures; and
(4) to assist local communities in the coordination and development of prevention and early intervention services in order to maximize federal, state, and local resources.

6. Nurturing and Attachment Knowledge of Child Development
Protective Factors Reduce Risk and Promote Well-Being of Children and Families
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention services focuses on strengthening the following six protective factors in a family:
Nurturing and Attachment
Knowledge of Child Development
Parental Resilience
Social Connections
Concrete Supports
Social and Emotional Competence of the Child
For more information on the validated Protective Factors Survey, see:
Protective factors are conditions or attributes of individuals, families, communities or the larger society that reduce or eliminate risk and promote healthy development and well-being of children and families

7. HOPES:
Background

8. Background: Rider 30-Funding for Other “At-Risk” Prevention Programs
The 83rd Legislature included $19 million in increased funding for other at-risk prevention programs for child abuse and neglect prevention in accordance with a comprehensive plan that includes:
Only programs that are evidence-based or promising practices.
Community-based programs located throughout the state.
Performance measures that gauge program effectiveness.
Programs with a focus on children ages 0-17.
Public private collaboration that enhances state resources to reach more children, youth, and families.

9. the most at-risk areas of the state; and
Early Stakeholder involvement
In the Spring of 2013, DFPS convened a stakeholder workgroup to develop the comprehensive plan utilizing the best strategies for meeting the legislated requirements of the other at-risk prevention services.
These stakeholders advised that the best use of limited dollars would be to target:
the most at-risk areas of the state; and
families with children ages 0-5.

10. HOPES Begins
From the Stakeholder input, PEI created Project HOPES: Healthy Outcomes through Prevention and Early Support.
The goal of Project HOPES is to establish flexible, community-based child abuse and neglect prevention programs in select communities targeting families of children ages 0-5 who are at-risk for abuse and neglect.
Counties were ranked based on:
Child abuse and neglect fatalities,
Child poverty,
Substance Abuse convictions and treatment facility admissions,
Domestic violence convictions, and
Teen Pregnancy rates.
Will you talk about how these counties were picked? Potentially add this in where you have the counties listed since they are mentioned on the following slide.

11. Communities are Key to Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
The HOPES program is based on the Commissioner’s belief that:
Child abuse and neglect is a community problem that impacts everyone
Child abuse and neglect is a vicious cycle that cannot be ‘fixed’ by the CPS system
Child abuse and neglect requires a community solution
Children and families need ongoing community support in order to be successful.
In 2012, there was more than 64,000 confirmed victims of child abuse and neglect in Texas. Each year, Child abuse/neglect cost Texas taxpayers more than $6 billion annually. Child abuse/neglect lead to other social ills including poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, mental health and teen pregnancy, CAN damage our community by leading to crime and a diminished workforce
All parents struggle and need support. The CPS system is designed to provide services to the children most in danger to protect them from harm. The system cannot provide support for all families in need and cannot provide ongoing support to ensure that families continue to be successful after they leave the CPS system. We need the community to help keep families out of the system to begin with and to help the families that do enter into the system to exit successfully.

12. Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model
Current HOPES I Programs
County
Provider
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model
Cameron
BCFS
SafeCare
Ector
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Parents as Teachers
El Paso
El Paso Center for Children
Gregg
Buckner Children & Family Services
Hidalgo
Easter Seals
Potter
Family Support Services
Travis
Austin Children’s Services
Triple P
Webb
Serving Children and Adults in Need

13. Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model
Current HOPES II Programs
County
Provider
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model
Dallas
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas
Parents as Teachers
Harris
DePelchin Children’s Center
Jefferson
Buckner Children and Family Services
Lubbock
Parenting Cottage
McLennan
TBD
Nueces
Educational Service Center, Region 2
Taylor
BCFS
SafeCare
Wichita
North Texas Area United Way

14. Program Examples from HOPES I Sites
Site A
Site B
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services
Case Management
Domestic Violence Component
Fatherhood Component
Counseling
Basic Needs Support
Community Collaboration
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services
Fatherhood Component
Saturday Activities for Families with Young Children
Sexual Abuse Prevention Education
Community Conference
Community Collaboration

15. Program Examples from HOPES II Sites
Site A
Site B
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services
Period of PURPLE Crying
Avance Parent-Child
Triple P
Parent Navigator
Community Collaboration
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services
Family Connections
Nurturing Parenting Program
SEEK Model
Centering Pregnancy
Community Collaboration

16. Partnership with Texas Home Visitation Program
Next we are going to talk to you about PEI's partnership with Texas Home Visiting. Texas Home Visiting is a home visitation program that works to improve outcomes for children and families. Texas Home Visiting is currently a program of HHSC, but will soon be merging with PEI.

17. Texas Home Visiting Program
Fund and support communities across the state to implement programs and build/enhance early childhood systems
Partners with Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngers (HIPPY), Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), and Parents as Teachers (PAT) to implement program
In addition to Home Visiting Services, Texas Home Visiting works to build and enhance early childhood systems across the state.
The evidence-based models that Texas Home Visiting contractors utilize are Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters, Nurse-Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.

18. Coalitions
Communities are working toward the goal of developing or working with existing local coalitions that address early childhood and family support issues.
Another aspect of the Texas Home Visiting Program is that of their coalition work. Texas Home Visiting contractors develop or work with local coalitions that address early childhood and family support issues on a community-wide level.

19. Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model
Texas Home Visiting Sites
HOPES III Counties
THV Site
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Model
Coalition
Bexar
United Way of San Antonio
NFP/PAT/HIPPY
ReadyKidSA
Bell
N/A
Brazoria
Brazos
Collin
United Way of
Metropolitan Dallas
PAT
TBD
Denton
Ellis
Fort Bend
Baylor College of Medicine/ City of Houston
NFP
Galveston
Guadalupe
Hays
Community Action, Inc.
San Marcos Commission on Youth & Children
Johnson
Montgomery
MET, Inc.
Montgomery County Early Childhood Coalition
Smith
UT Health Science Center at Tyler
Tarrant
Fort Worth ISD
Educational Alignment for Young Children
Williamson
Texas Home Visiting provides services in many counties around Texas, including the following counties which are also HOPES III Counties. This chart outlines where Texas Home Visiting is present in the HOPES III counties, which evidence-based model they use for home visiting services, and the name of their early childhood coalition, if applicable.

20. HOPES:
Vision

21. HOPES in Your Community
Vision:
HOPES in Your Community
The benefit of HOPES will be to reduce the abuse and neglect of children by empowering local communities to build effective prevention services and coalitions through financial resources, data-driven procurement, and offering the flexibility to choose the evidence-based programs that meet the needs of the local community.
DFPS wants to fund what you would build in your community to prevent the child abuse and neglect of young children.

22. HOPES Round III: Potential Communities
PEI will fund up to 8 contracts in the following 16 counties, with no more than one proposal funded per county.
Bexar
Galveston
Bell
Guadalupe
Brazoria
Hays
Brazos
Johnson
Collin
Montgomery
Denton
Smith
Ellis
Tarrant
Fort Bend
Williamson

23. ACES as a Foundation and Call to Arms

24. Essentials for Childhood

25. Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships

26. HOPES: Vision
DFPS is interested in:
Service providers who have an established history of providing effective services in the target area
An approach that focuses on primary and secondary prevention strategies but can incorporate tertiary prevention strategies;
Community level collaborations (use existing groups where possible) that is aimed to provide systems of care for families of young children;
Data-driven strategic planning;
Outcome-based evaluation;
Leveraging private funding; and
Thoughtful plans for sustainability.

27. HOPES: Vision An example of the variety of ideas to consider:
Piloting an “ACES” informed primary care clinic.
Bringing evidence-based parent education to primary care settings. Providing a wrap-around set of services to the various “homes” for young children and their families: health care, child care, home-visitation.
Partnering with higher-education to further the field of evidence in strengthening families through research and evaluation.
Partnering with Children’s hospitals and birthing hospitals to change community norms around healthy parenting.
Increasing the capacity for home-visitation if needed.
Building a variety of programs to a well informed assessment and service-planning system of family support.
Participating in a multi-layered public-health model to support safe, stable, and nurturing relationships, such as Triple P.

28. Guide to Conducting Community Needs Assessments
Tools and Resources:
Developing Community Prevention Strategies
Developed by The Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI) at the University of Texas at Austin
Guide to Conducting Community Needs Assessments
Guide to Selecting an Evidence-Based Intervention
Guide to Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention
Pathway to the Prevention of Child Abuse and neglect

29. HOPES: Vision
Timeline:
RFP posted in early April 2016
Contracts awarded and services beginning in September 2016
Contract Structure
DFPS anticipates a cost-reimbursement financing structure.
Award Selection
DFPS will award contracts in up to 8 of the eligible counties with no more than one award in any one county

30. What questions can we answer?
HOPES
What questions can we answer?

31. HOPES