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

2. Let’s Start With Some History

3. October 1992 SWAN Introduced as Casey Administration Initiative…

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

5. Fiscal Year 94-95 17 counties participated… …and spent a total of $167,000

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

7. Fiscal Year 95-96  Performance-based  Standardized units of service  Dollars based on affiliate capacity

8. GROWTH of a NETWORK Fiscal Year# of CountiesSWAN Dollars 95-9625$1,226,500 96-9736$1,369,625 97-9842$3,650,000 98-9942$5,064,200 99-0051$6,382,250

9. Fiscal Year 96-99  Released First Help Manual  Adoption Legal Services Project began in Allegheny County  Introduced SWAN Helpline  Nurturing the Network

10. Six Key Missions Direct Practice in SWAN

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

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

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

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

15. Mission Five Permanent families must be developed for every waiting child

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

17. Fiscal Year 00-01 Contract awarded to Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries in partnership with Family Design Resources

18. Fiscal Year 00-01 Theme of Diakon/FDR’s response was “Capacity-Building” and the Network grew…

19. SWAN’s Dollars and Services Increased Fiscal Year# Of CountiesSWAN Dollars 00-0150$6,987,175 01-0252$7,157,525 02-0353$8,583,075 03-0456$11,237,500 04-0559$15,558,250

20. and INCREASED… Fiscal Year# Of CountiesSWAN Dollars 05-0661$13,164,750 06-0763$10,121,750 07-0858$9,018,500 08-0963$27,000,000 09-1066$31,000,000 allocated

21. Fiscal Years 03-09  SWAN Bulletin revised  All permanency goals served by SWAN  LSI program expanded  Focused on Older Youth/Partnership with IL

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

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

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

25. Subcontracting  Mentoring Guidelines  Technical Assistance Support

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

27. Web site www.diakon-swan.org

28. WARMLINE  1-888-793-2512, OPTION 2  LSI section of Web site

29. Your Presenters