Foster Home Intake

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Foster Home Intake

• SchoolMinder
• Schools, addresses places
• Groupings (Performance Contracting)
• Trends in Resources
• Loss of available homes (3,077 1,914)
• Loss of districts with available foster homes

• GIS Analysis foster home recruiting
• Density of intake density of homes
• Available homes closest to 12 or more intake
• Intake more than 15 miles from closest available
  home
• GIS Analysis Results
• 19 areas, 15 districts, 201 schools, 28 cities

Richard Foltz Illinois Department of Children and
Family Services Richard.Foltz_at_illinois.gov
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Versions

• Version 1 July, 2006
• SchoolMinder on two stand-alone PCs
• 3,077 homes
• 5 agency calls/placement
• 50 75 decrease in distance from home of
  natural parent to placement
• 20 case assignment clerical
• Version 2 August, 2007
• SchoolMinder on server, accessed from browser
  available on each desktop
• 2,400 homes
• 7 20 agency calls/placement
• 50 225 increase in distance from home of
  natural parent to placement
• Less than pre-SchoolMinder
• SchoolMinder bypass placements much greater than
  both pre-SchoolMinder and current placement
  distances
• 8 case assignment clerical

• Version 3 July, 2008
• Add age and gender to sibling group descriptions
• Reunification homes indicator
• School area
• Support foster care recruitment with GIS tools
• Identify priority areas
• Publish resource maps on server
• 5 case assignment clerical (2 trainees)
• Version 4 - ?
• Replace straight distance calculations with
  travel times for both foster care assignments and
  resource analysis
• Levels urban/rural playing field
• 0 1 mile grouping becomes 5 minutes travel time
• 1 5 mile grouping becomes 5 15 minutes
  travel time, etc
• Add non-CAPU users?