VI

ORANGE COUNTY CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES

COLLABORATION WITH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES

NAME

AGENCIES/ INDIVIDUALS
INVOLVED

PURPOSE/
GOALS/

COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES

Children's Services Coordination Committee (CSCC), est. 1982

Orange County Supervisor; Health Care Agency/Public Health; Alcohol and Drug Services; Behavioral Health Services; Social Services; a Juvenile Court Judge; Juvenile Justice Commission; District Attorney; County Counsel; a parent; a foster parent; an emancipated foster youth; a group home representative; Regional Center; Orange Co. Dept. of Education; Santa Ana SELPA, and Probation.

To provide executive level advisory services to key Orange County collaboratives.
Subcommittees include:
Emancipation Services; Evaluation; Gaps and Barriers; Orange County Child Welfare Services Redesign Planning Council

Oversees the Children's System of Care, Wraparound OC, Emancipation Services and Foster Youth Services.
Sponsors the Annual Report on the Conditions of Children in Orange County.
Identifies gaps and barriers in Orange county's service system, recommends collaborative programs.
Meetings are open to the public.

Wraparound Orange County

CFS; HCA; Probation;
Parent Partners;
Community Services providers, such as Olive Crest, New Alternatives, Canyon Acres and South Coast Children's Society, and the Parent Institute

Stabilize placements and support reunification.
Eligibility criteria requires that the child must be placed or be at risk of placement in high level group home care.

Utilizes flexible funding to provide individualized, comprehensive, community-based services to help keep children in family settings.
Inter-disciplinary group known as the Wraparound Review and Intake Team (WRIT) screen each referral.
Families accepted are assigned to Olive Crest, New Alternatives, Canyon Acres or South Coast Children's Society for care.
Parent Partner activities are supported through a contract with the Parent Institute

Foster Youth Services (FYS)

Orange County Department or Education (OCDE)
CFS
HCA
CFS
Probation
Regional Center

To improve the educational outcomes for children living in group homes.

Conducts inter-disciplinary case reviews of children at greatest risk of school failure to improve coordination of services
Obtains and enters educational information for each child's health and education passport
Identifies system gaps and barriers, reports these to the Children's Services Coordination Committee

Children's System of Care

Social Services Agency; Health Care Agency/Behavioral Health Services; Probation, OC Department of Education; Regional Center

To provide services to seriously emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed children and their families, pursuant to WIC 5850-5883. Goals include reducing out of home placements, improving behaviors, and improving school attendance and performance.

Case Management Council provides case review for eligible and referred children. Develops action plans and identifies gaps and barriers to services.
CMC members serve on the Wraparound Review and Intake Team.

Continuing Care Placement Unit

CFS
Health Care Agency
Group Homes
Regional Center

To coordinate placement and service needs for children with severe emotional disorders

Orange County Child Welfare Redesign Planning Council

SSA; CFS; HCA; Probation; Public Defenders Office; Law Enforcement; Community Service Providers; OC Dep of Education; Orangewood Children's Foundation

To guide Orange County's child welfare re-design, including the Self Assessment and PIP

Monthly meetings to identify needs and establish priorities for program improvement.

CalWORKs Mutual Clients Project

SSA-Children and Family Services and
SSA-Financial Self Sufficiency/CalWORKs

To provide coordinated services to families receiving assistance from both CFS and CalWORKs.

Joint Policy and Procedures
Monthly Advisory Meetings
Coordinated case planning, service provision and training.

Domestic Abuse Services Unit (DASU)

CFS
CalWORKs

To assess and support CalWORKs clients for work exemptions and needed resources.

CFS Senior Social Workers assess CalWORKs clients self-identified as domestic assault victims.
CFS workers make recommendations re. work exemptions.
CFS workers provide supportive services to the parents and families.

Families and Communities Together (FaCT), est. 1994.

Children and Families Commission; Family Resource Centers; SSA and over 60 community-based organizations and county agencies.

Established as a planning body for Family Preservation and Support funds. To build community capacity and provide preventive and early intervention services.

FaCT actively engages the broad community in planning and implementation of services that promote the well being, safety and permanency of children, families and communities. FaCT projects leverage PSSF, CAPIT, CFSRS and Prop 10 funds.
Nine Family Resource Centers throughout the county are funded for 2003-2006.

Workforce Investment Act (WIA)

WIA providers
Emancipated youth service providers
CalWORKs
CFS

To provide emancipation services to eligible youth ages 14-21.

Coordinates county-wide emancipation services, including skill-building in areas such as interpersonal communication, employer values, etc., in anticipation of future employment..

Family to Family: Building Community Partnerships (BCP)

CFS
CalWORKs
Health Care Agency
FaCT

To identify, recruit, train and support community-based individuals and resources.

BCP Strategy Team meets monthly to develop strategies to build community partnerships

Family to Family:
Team Decision Making (TDM)

CFS
CalWORKs
Fact-Family Resource Centers
Public Health
Other agencies and community service providers

To involve the family, extended family and community in every key safety and placement decision throughout the provision of child welfare services.

TDM Strategy Team meets bi-monthly to establish protocol and problem-solve implementation of TDM.
Family Resource Centers and other Community-based agencies have hired Family Advocates to attend TDM meetings and provide parents with support, resources and referrals.

Family to Family: Recruitment, Retention and Support (RTS)

CFS
Foster Parents
Foster Family Agencies
Schools
Faith based organizations
Others

To recruit, train and support community-based resource families

RTS Strategy Team meets bi-monthly.
Sub committees have formed to accomplish RTS goals in Orange Co.

Family to Family:
Self Evaluation Team (SET)

CFS
Health Care Agency

Interagency Networking for Kids

CFS
Health Care Agency

Link youth to behavioral health services available through HCA contracted clinics; provide interventions to stabilize placement

INK staff meet regularly with CEGU and contracted clinicians to assess foster youth for services, and develop treatment goals.

Healthy Tomorrows

CFS; Santa Ana Unified School District; Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

To provide preventive and early intervention health and social services for at-risk families.

CFS Senior Social Workers are out stationed in select Santa Ana schools.
CHOC provides medical services through a mobile clinic.

Child Abuse Services Team

CFS, HCA, District Attorney, Victim Witness,
CASA

To reduce trauma for child victims of sexual abuse.

Multi-disciplinary child advocacy center, provides child-friendly forensic interviews and sexual assault exams for child victims, as well as short-term therapy and resources for victims and families.

Orange County Adoption Consortium

CFS and 16+ private adoptions agencies.

To facilitate adoptions for children who are challenging to place.

Meets bi-monthly to discuss collaborative issues.
Private agencies complete home studies on specified caregivers interested in adopting.
Private agencies also supply home studies for family's available to adopt dependent children.

Multi-Dimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)

CFS
Health Care Agency

MTFC is an alternative to group home care. Foster homes are trained to help stabilize youth's behaviors while the team works with the youth's family towards reunification.

MTFC Steering Committee meets monthly and includes CFS, HCA and Wrap provider (New Alternatives, Inc.). MTFC Clinical Team includes CFS foster parent recruiter/trainer, CFS Program Manager, and HCA clinicians and Manager. MTFC Foster Parent Support Group and Clinical Teams meet weekly.

Multi-Disciplinary Consultation Team (MDCT)

CFS
Health Care Agency
Department of Education

CFS SSW works with families with non-dependent children who are seriously emotionally disturbed, to prevent them from entering the CWS.

Emergency Response staff alert the MDCT SSW of target families, and she can team or provide consultation immediately. The MDCT meetings with families are scheduled as needed.

Foster and Adoptive Development Team

CFS
Santa Ana Unified School District
Catholic Diocese of Orange
Templo Cavario

City by city campaign to raise awareness of foster and adoption needs, and to recruit foster and adoptive families.

Presentations with community residents, train residents for neighborhood recruitment.

NAME	AGENCIES/ INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED	PURPOSE/ GOALS/	COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES
Children's Services Coordination Committee (CSCC), est. 1982	Orange County Supervisor; Health Care Agency/Public Health; Alcohol and Drug Services; Behavioral Health Services; Social Services; a Juvenile Court Judge; Juvenile Justice Commission; District Attorney; County Counsel; a parent; a foster parent; an emancipated foster youth; a group home representative; Regional Center; Orange Co. Dept. of Education; Santa Ana SELPA, and Probation.	To provide executive level advisory services to key Orange County collaboratives. Subcommittees include: Emancipation Services; Evaluation; Gaps and Barriers; Orange County Child Welfare Services Redesign Planning Council	Oversees the Children's System of Care, Wraparound OC, Emancipation Services and Foster Youth Services. Sponsors the Annual Report on the Conditions of Children in Orange County. Identifies gaps and barriers in Orange county's service system, recommends collaborative programs. Meetings are open to the public.
Wraparound Orange County	CFS; HCA; Probation; Parent Partners; Community Services providers, such as Olive Crest, New Alternatives, Canyon Acres and South Coast Children's Society, and the Parent Institute	Stabilize placements and support reunification. Eligibility criteria requires that the child must be placed or be at risk of placement in high level group home care.	Utilizes flexible funding to provide individualized, comprehensive, community-based services to help keep children in family settings. Inter-disciplinary group known as the Wraparound Review and Intake Team (WRIT) screen each referral. Families accepted are assigned to Olive Crest, New Alternatives, Canyon Acres or South Coast Children's Society for care. Parent Partner activities are supported through a contract with the Parent Institute
Foster Youth Services (FYS)	Orange County Department or Education (OCDE) CFS HCA CFS Probation Regional Center	To improve the educational outcomes for children living in group homes.	Conducts inter-disciplinary case reviews of children at greatest risk of school failure to improve coordination of services Obtains and enters educational information for each child's health and education passport Identifies system gaps and barriers, reports these to the Children's Services Coordination Committee
Children's System of Care	Social Services Agency; Health Care Agency/Behavioral Health Services; Probation, OC Department of Education; Regional Center	To provide services to seriously emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed children and their families, pursuant to WIC 5850-5883. Goals include reducing out of home placements, improving behaviors, and improving school attendance and performance.	Case Management Council provides case review for eligible and referred children. Develops action plans and identifies gaps and barriers to services. CMC members serve on the Wraparound Review and Intake Team.
Continuing Care Placement Unit	CFS Health Care Agency Group Homes Regional Center	To coordinate placement and service needs for children with severe emotional disorders
Orange County Child Welfare Redesign Planning Council	SSA; CFS; HCA; Probation; Public Defenders Office; Law Enforcement; Community Service Providers; OC Dep of Education; Orangewood Children's Foundation	To guide Orange County's child welfare re-design, including the Self Assessment and PIP	Monthly meetings to identify needs and establish priorities for program improvement.
CalWORKs Mutual Clients Project	SSA-Children and Family Services and SSA-Financial Self Sufficiency/CalWORKs	To provide coordinated services to families receiving assistance from both CFS and CalWORKs.	Joint Policy and Procedures Monthly Advisory Meetings Coordinated case planning, service provision and training.
Domestic Abuse Services Unit (DASU)	CFS CalWORKs	To assess and support CalWORKs clients for work exemptions and needed resources.	CFS Senior Social Workers assess CalWORKs clients self-identified as domestic assault victims. CFS workers make recommendations re. work exemptions. CFS workers provide supportive services to the parents and families.
Families and Communities Together (FaCT), est. 1994.	Children and Families Commission; Family Resource Centers; SSA and over 60 community-based organizations and county agencies.	Established as a planning body for Family Preservation and Support funds. To build community capacity and provide preventive and early intervention services.	FaCT actively engages the broad community in planning and implementation of services that promote the well being, safety and permanency of children, families and communities. FaCT projects leverage PSSF, CAPIT, CFSRS and Prop 10 funds. Nine Family Resource Centers throughout the county are funded for 2003-2006.
Workforce Investment Act (WIA)	WIA providers Emancipated youth service providers CalWORKs CFS	To provide emancipation services to eligible youth ages 14-21.	Coordinates county-wide emancipation services, including skill-building in areas such as interpersonal communication, employer values, etc., in anticipation of future employment..
Family to Family: Building Community Partnerships (BCP)	CFS CalWORKs Health Care Agency FaCT	To identify, recruit, train and support community-based individuals and resources.	BCP Strategy Team meets monthly to develop strategies to build community partnerships
Family to Family: Team Decision Making (TDM)	CFS CalWORKs Fact-Family Resource Centers Public Health Other agencies and community service providers	To involve the family, extended family and community in every key safety and placement decision throughout the provision of child welfare services.	TDM Strategy Team meets bi-monthly to establish protocol and problem-solve implementation of TDM. Family Resource Centers and other Community-based agencies have hired Family Advocates to attend TDM meetings and provide parents with support, resources and referrals.
Family to Family: Recruitment, Retention and Support (RTS)	CFS Foster Parents Foster Family Agencies Schools Faith based organizations Others	To recruit, train and support community-based resource families	RTS Strategy Team meets bi-monthly. Sub committees have formed to accomplish RTS goals in Orange Co.
Family to Family: Self Evaluation Team (SET)	CFS Health Care Agency
Interagency Networking for Kids	CFS Health Care Agency	Link youth to behavioral health services available through HCA contracted clinics; provide interventions to stabilize placement	INK staff meet regularly with CEGU and contracted clinicians to assess foster youth for services, and develop treatment goals.
Healthy Tomorrows	CFS; Santa Ana Unified School District; Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)	To provide preventive and early intervention health and social services for at-risk families.	CFS Senior Social Workers are out stationed in select Santa Ana schools. CHOC provides medical services through a mobile clinic.
Child Abuse Services Team	CFS, HCA, District Attorney, Victim Witness, CASA	To reduce trauma for child victims of sexual abuse.	Multi-disciplinary child advocacy center, provides child-friendly forensic interviews and sexual assault exams for child victims, as well as short-term therapy and resources for victims and families.
Orange County Adoption Consortium	CFS and 16+ private adoptions agencies.	To facilitate adoptions for children who are challenging to place.	Meets bi-monthly to discuss collaborative issues. Private agencies complete home studies on specified caregivers interested in adopting. Private agencies also supply home studies for family's available to adopt dependent children.
Multi-Dimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)	CFS Health Care Agency	MTFC is an alternative to group home care. Foster homes are trained to help stabilize youth's behaviors while the team works with the youth's family towards reunification.	MTFC Steering Committee meets monthly and includes CFS, HCA and Wrap provider (New Alternatives, Inc.). MTFC Clinical Team includes CFS foster parent recruiter/trainer, CFS Program Manager, and HCA clinicians and Manager. MTFC Foster Parent Support Group and Clinical Teams meet weekly.
Multi-Disciplinary Consultation Team (MDCT)	CFS Health Care Agency Department of Education	CFS SSW works with families with non-dependent children who are seriously emotionally disturbed, to prevent them from entering the CWS.	Emergency Response staff alert the MDCT SSW of target families, and she can team or provide consultation immediately. The MDCT meetings with families are scheduled as needed.
Foster and Adoptive Development Team	CFS Santa Ana Unified School District Catholic Diocese of Orange Templo Cavario	City by city campaign to raise awareness of foster and adoption needs, and to recruit foster and adoptive families.	Presentations with community residents, train residents for neighborhood recruitment.