Community%20Partnerships%20for%20Protecting%20Children%20(CPPC)

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Community Partnerships for Protecting Children
(CPPC)

• Andy Kogerma
• Family Connection Partnership

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CPPC Philosophy

• Based on the idea that people and places in
  neighborhoods are primary resources for families
  in crisis
• Formal and informal resources need to work
  together
• Protecting children is everyones business

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CPPC Background

• Sponsored by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
• Four initial sites (1995) Cedar Rapids,
  Jacksonville, Louisville, S. Louis
• Each site is working to achieve three broad goals
  . . .

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CPPC Broad Goals

• Change the CPS response to families, moving away
  from a one size fits allresponse
• Develop and expand neighborhood-based resources
  to help families keep children safe and ensure
  support before problems become crises
• Involve broad spectrum of community services

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CPPC Core Beliefs

• Child Focused every child is valued
• Family focused respect for families
  capacity/skill in caring for their children
• Results Accountability (define results,
  design/implement results-based strategies for
  implementation, evaluate results)
• Outcomes based What difference are we making?

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Core Beliefs (cont)

• Strengths Based What is right with this
  family?
• Shared LeadershipPromotes the involvement of all
  parties
• Cultural Differences Valued/Respected

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Taking Stock Assessing Strengths/Needs

• Each community,like each family, has unique
  strengths and needs
• CPPC must build on these
• Community assessments must occur--for example,
  Cedar Rapids used geomapping to analyze
  geography of CAN/DV reports, then identified
  overlap areas
• Assets/Needs of area must be assessed

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Community Assets

• Existing social structures in community
  churches, neighborhood associations, interagency
  councils, natural leaders, etc.
• Accurate inventory of formal resources involved
  in community

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Community Needs

• Limitations on residents ability/willingness to
  access available resources (inadequate public
  transportation, isolation, cultural barriers,
  lack of information, etc.)
• Circumstances/conditions which hamper families
  (DV, CAN, substance abuse, income issues, lack of
  education, mental illness, etc.)

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CPPC in Georgia

• DFCS Sponsored initiative
• Family Connection Partnership a primary partner
• Other Partners includePrevent Child Abuse
  Georgia, UGA-CVIOG, Casey
• Operates through the leadership of local FC
  Collaboratives with local DFCS assuming key
  leadership role

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CPPC in Georgia

• Nine counties selected for participation
  Brantley, Catoosa, Clarke, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton,
  Jenkins, Muscogee and Peach
• Each county receives seed money and one assigned
  DFCS CPPC position

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CPPC Four Key Strategies

• 1 CPS Policy/Practice Change
• 2 Use of Family Team Meetings/Individualized
  Courses of Action (FTMs, ICAs) to
  facilitate change
• 3 Develop Network of Community Supports and
  Resources for families in need
• 4 Shared decision making between all parties

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Strategy 1 Individualized Courses of Action

• Develop family centered, Individualized Courses
  of Action (ICAs) for vulnerable
  families/children
• Use strengths-based Family Team Meetings (FTMs)
  to generate plan for change
• Values Informal support (neighborhood, family)
• Involves DFCS/Community agencies

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Family Team Meetings

• Core Strategy of CPPC
• Involves meeting of family members, facilitators,
  family support, service providers . . .
• Purpose to help family identify strengths/needs
  and generate a plan for change

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Family Team Meeting

• Based on core conditions of respect, empathy,
  genuineness
• Uses active listening skills
• Strengths based What is right with this
  family?
• Is solution focused

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Family Team Meeting Steps

• Welcome and Introductions
• Purpose
• Outcomes
• Non-negotiables/confidentiality
• Ground Rules
• Family Story
• Strengths to Achieve Outcomes

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FTM Steps (cont)

• Identification of Individual and Family Needs
• Brainstorm How to Meet Needs
• Develop Agreement for Plan (who will do what,
  when, where, etc)
• Assessing what can go wrong
• Next Steps and Closing

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Dual Track Response

• Community
• Prevention based
• Low-risk/self-identified families
• Hub conducts FTM/facilitators may be community
  members
• Generates Family Support Plan

• DFCS
• Intervention Based
• Moderate-high risk families identified through
  DFCS
• Uses intensive family assessment and FTM
• Conducted by DFCS
• Generates 6 month case plan

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Strategy 2 Community Network of
Services/supports

• Reflects belief that the community is best able
  to protect children, support families through
  change
• Uses service/resource hubs
• Prevention is focus of involvement
• Depends on informal helpers
• Parents/residents work together

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Strategy 3 CPS Policy/Practice Change

• This includes . . .
• outstationed or geographically assigned staff
• individualized responses to maltreatment reports
  (differential response)
• promoting staff connections to community
  resources
• emphasis on workload, not caseload

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CPS and CPPC in Georgia

• Implementing CPPC means changes to CPS
  policy/practice in nine counties
• In-depth Family Assessment replaces
  Strengths/Needs Assessment
• Family Team Meeting basis for case planning
• Case Plan written during FTM with, not for,
  families
• 6 Month time frame for case plan

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CPS and CPPC Lessons Learned from Other States

• All sites use dual track system
  investigations for DFCS cases, assessment for
  community
• Outbasing/geographic assignment of workers led to
  CPS culture change,both internally and
  externally.
• Internal CPS change workers cited improved
  relationships with service providers,greater
  accessibility to services, more informed referral
  decisions.

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CPS and CPPC Lessons Learned /Other States (cont)

• Some CPS staff stated that outbasing was the
  reform mechanism that has affected the greatest
  change in their practice.
• External perception change provided direct
  benefits in the relationship between CPS and
  community residents/clients. Community residents
  recognize CPS workers on sight, voluntarily
  providing more information on safety concerns.

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Quotes from CPS Workers

• ICA is a helpful framework for involving the
  family more in what they want, not in what we
  think they want.
• Ive seen it use of FTMs change the opinion of
  a lot of workers who did not come from that
  perspective.
• The view of the agency by others is more
  positive. I am hopeful now that CPS image will
  improve. Families can be shown that CPS can help
  in positive ways.

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CPS Quotes (cont)

• Now, its a little different. CPS is not there
  just to take their kids. We also come to try and
  help you.
• I think families are starting to feel better
  about workers and workers are feeling more
  positive about families.
• Word is getting around. People are seeing us as
  more helpful, hopefully, and calling us before
  things really get out of hand.

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Strategy 4 Shared Decision Making

• A commitment to shared decision making between
  families, community members and service
  providers, in which
• resident voices are prominent
• decisions are data driven/outcomes focused
• emphasizes outreach to broad spectrum of partners

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Shared Decision Making (cont)

• Two Primary Issues
• What decisions will be shared?
• How will we share them?

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Fulton County CPPC

• Located in East Washington (East Point)
• DFCS partnered with East Point Community Action
  Team
• Created Alpha Center
• Alpha Center now houses outstationed DFCS staff,
  alternative school suspension program, prevention
  resource library, GED classes, computer lab,
  after school sports, Boy Scouts