1. 2016 Child & Family Annual Report
November 21, 2018
2016 Child & Family Annual Report
March 21, 2017
Presenters:
Child & Family Social Services Manager: Shari Kottke
Child & Family Social Services Supervisors:
Wendy Morton, Christie Bausman, Jessica Hoeper, Tom Sandberg

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Child and Family Social Services partners with families to help ensure that children are more likely to be safe, have permanency and to be well in Dodge, Steele, and Waseca Counties.

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Programs:
•Child Protection Investigation & Family Assessment Response
•Child Protection On-Going Services
•Family Involvement Strategies (Family Group Conferencing)
•Parenting Support Outreach Assessment and Services
•Child/Family Welfare Services
•Children In Need of Protection or Services (CHIPS) Court Proceedings
•Parallel Protection Processes
•Out-of-Home Placements of Children
•Children’s Mental Health Services
•Minor Parent Services
•Adoption/Guardianship
•Licensing of Child Day Care Homes
•Licensing of Child Foster Care Homes
•Community Education and Prevention
•Information & Referral

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C&F Intake has 2 Social Worker FTEs who responded to reports and requests for information or services.
**FTEs referenced throughout report are EOY 2016 actual

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The number of child protection reports has increased over the past three years.

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Assessment & Investigation has 5.8 Social Worker FTEs that responded to 487 child protection reports:
16.2% family investigation, % family assessment.

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The number of reports that received a CP response increased by % in Each social worker opened 83 investigations or assessments on average this year. Staff in this area have various levels of experience and some attended intensive training.

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12 Child Protection & Child Welfare Social Worker FTEs with an average caseload of families.
12 Children’s Mental Health Case Manager FTEs with an average caseload of 17 children.

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The number of new case openings in child protection decreased by 42% in Trend data is mixed and currently near levels.

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Child in need of protection or services (CHIPS) & permanency filings decreased in 2016.
Cases that are court involved substantially increase level of social worker time intensity and often involve children in out of home placement.
Goes with the reduction on new case openings and increased work in front end to safety plan with families
Court consultation processes developed in Steele, ongoing consult processes with county attorney offices in Dodge and Waseca
Steele had additional truancy cases handled through a truancy court process however not CHIPS and MNP is a consultant to process vs active role

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The number of children entering out- of-home placement remained similar in
Contributing factors are parental substance use, chronic mental illness and large sibling groups.

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The cost of out- of-home placements rose in 2016.
**Steele County juvenile correction placements are included in this trend data.

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4.5 Social Worker/Case Aide FTEs work with child care & foster care providers to complete initial licensing and relicensing.
Staff provide or arrange for training per requirements.
Social work staff also manage the caseload of guardianship & adoption casework.

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Measures
Target
MNPrairie
2016
Timeliness to Initial Contact
90% 
91.9%*
Absence of Re-Reporting
15.2% i
14.7%*
Time to Reunification
75.2% 
77.8%*
Rate of Relative Care
45% 
53.8%*
Foster Care Re-entry
8.3% i
12%
Aging out of Foster Care
70% i
60.0%*
Placement Stability
86% 
89.2%*
Timeliness to Adoption
36.6% 
84.6%*
Monthly Caseworker Visits
94.1%*
Measures of child safety, permanency and well-being

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Highlights
Staffing
1 new provisional (2 years) child protection FTE (meeting performance standard for “set aside” funds & re-distribution from state child protection allocation grant)
New CP staff are completing DHS Child Welfare Foundation training within six months of hire, developed and implementing internal training/orientation to child protection
Infrastructure Building
Continued to conduct internal analysis, created program specific workgroups, created action plans to align practices across all sites (Intake, Assessment/Investigation, Ongoing child protection, Licensing/Adoption).
Expanded intake and continue to refine MNPrairie child maltreatment screening practices
Integrating “Safe and Connected” Comprehensive Child Welfare Design with consultant who provides ongoing training/coaching.

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Highlights (continued)
Results/Outcomes
Increasing use of Family Involvement Strategies
29 children achieved permanency through adoption
Met the 2016 child protection allocation grant performance measures to receive 20% “set-aside” funds. Received additional funds of approximately $50,000 in redistributed grant monies.
Revenue
In collaboration with accounting, monthly data reports drawn/distributed to supervisors who monitor and support practice to meet goals/standards
Foster care coordination team refined practices to better ensure maximized revenue recapture when children are placed out of home
Responding/managing grant funds: Family Assessment Response, Parent Support/Outreach, SELF, Child Protection Allocation, Respite, FGDM, trauma-informed and family-based service (SCHA)….

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2017 Program Priorities
Effectively manage the increase in accepted reports and front end processes to reduce case openings, out-of-home placements with current staffing levels and limited child welfare responses
Training/growing staff and continued alignment of practices across all sites
Strengthen and enhance collaboration with key child welfare partners across all sites
Timely licensing of kinship homes to meet state North Star requirements
Continued parental substance use

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Emerging Issues
Governor’s Child Protection Task Force Recommendations – changes primarily to front end practices
Limited access to early intervention services
Child care licensing potential move to annual licensing visit to match federal requirements likely
North Star foster care payment reconciliation
Access to safe and affordable housing, poverty & economic recovery

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Q & A