1. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services December 19, 2014
Texas Child and Family Services Review: Service Array and Agency Responsiveness to the Community Stakeholder Meeting
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
December 19, 2014

2. Child and Family Services Review: What is the CFSR?
Federal outcomes review process used throughout the United States
Developed in 2000 by the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. HHS’ Children’s Bureau
A revision of the ongoing requirement in the Amendment to the Social Security Act requiring HHS to review state child welfare programs. State reviews began in 2001
Evaluates how well states are achieving Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being outcomes for children

3. CFSR Approach
Identifies Strengths and highlights specific Areas that Need Improvement
Engages Stakeholders
Encourages States Towards Self-Assessment and Systems Change
Serves as a Model for Continuous Quality Improvement

4. What are we evaluated on?
3 Domains – Safety, Permanency, and Well- Being
7 Outcomes – 2 for Safety, 2 for Permanency, and 3 for Well Being
18 Individual Items

5. CFSR Round 3 Review
CFSR Round 3 will be completed in using the revised federal CFSR Onsite Review Instrument (OSRI)

6. Seven Systemic Factors
Information System
Case Review System
Quality Assurance System
Service Array
Staff and Provider Training
Agency Responsiveness to the Community
Foster/Adoptive Home Licensing/Approval /Recruitment

7. Service Array
Texas has a comprehensive service array that extends to all regions and counties across the State.
The Family Focus Division supports the collaboration with families to build on their strengths to develop individualized family plans that include the types of resources they identify as necessary to care for their children within their own homes and communities.
The CPS process in general (required by policy and Statute), calls for the immediate assessment of the strengths and needs of the children and families to determine the services necessary to create a safe home environment, to enable children to remain safely with their parents when reasonable; and from the onset begins to work toward permanency for those children removed from their homes.

9. CFSR Round 3 Service Array Systemic Factor Item 29: Array of Services
How well is the service array and resource development system functioning to ensure that the following array of services is accessible in all political jurisdictions covered by the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP)?
1. Services that assess the strengths and needs of children and families and determine other service needs;
2. Services that address the needs of families in addition to individual children in order to create a safe home environment;
3. Services that enable children to remain safely with their parents when reasonable; and
4. Services that help children in foster and adoptive placements achieve permanency.

11. CFSR Round 3 Service Array Systemic Factor Item 30: Individualizing Services
How well is the service array and resource development system functioning statewide to ensure that the services in item 29 can be individualized to meet the unique needs of children and families served by the agency?

13. Agency Responsiveness to the Community
DFPS has worked diligently to build and strengthen community relationships and partnerships at all levels and continues to utilize all available community support to provide for the safety, permanency and well-being of Texas children. There are a variety of advisory committees active statewide on the following issues: youth, disproportionality, adoption of minority children, law enforcement and the judiciary, community collaboration, capacity building and coordination of services.

15. CFSR Round 3 Agency Responsiveness to the Community Systemic Factor Item 31: State Engagement and Consultation with Stakeholders Pursuant to CFSP and Annual Progress and Services Reports (APSR)
How well is the agency responsiveness to the community system functioning statewide to ensure that, in implementing the provisions of the CFSP and developing related APSRs, the state engages in ongoing consultation with Tribal representatives, consumers, service providers, foster care providers, the juvenile court, and other public and private child- and family-serving agencies and includes the major concerns of these representatives in the goals, objectives, and annual updates of the CFSP?

17. CFSR Round 3 Agency Responsiveness to the Community Systemic Factor Item 32: Coordination of CFSP Services with other Federal Programs
How well is the agency responsiveness to the community system functioning statewide to ensure that the state’s services under the CFSP are coordinated with services or benefits of other federal or federally assisted programs serving the same population?

18. Wrap-Up
Questions?
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