Continuum of Care Reform

Bay Area Regional Collaborative

Probation web conference

December 16, 2016

Napa,Monterey, San Francisco, San Mateo, Sonoma

Guided Discussion Questions:

What are your current CCR implementation and/or preparation efforts? Please give a detailed description of these efforts.

  • Sonoma – Hired dep probationdeputy officer 3 (MSW) to be CCR specialist and connected with Human Services
  • Part of RFA and recruitment units
  • Lead on facilitating CFTs
  • Liaison with HR
  • San Francisco
  • Created job description for social worker and will on-board in a few months
  • Role: RFA, retention, family finding, home assessments, training for families and for POs
  • Working to schedule CFT trainings
  • Want to train a couple of people
  • Utilizing CBO for CFT training until ready to do CFTs internally.
  • Working to improve communication and preparedness for training
  • mails to staff to let them know what’s happening
  • information shared with judicial partners
  • Will be holding 3rd symposium with GH providers about needs to certify
  • Message to providers: they will have to show how they are actively engaged in the process of certifying
  • Napa
  • Finalizing MOU with CWS
  • Partnering in oster parent recruitment efforts
  • Reorg to develop capacity
  • CFT/liaison for child welfare
  • Sending someone to training for CFT
  • One person has gone
  • Training all of placement officers on CFT
  • Monterey
  • FPPRS funding
  • Reaching out to local FFA to be resource specialist for family finding and recruitment
  • CWS will be doing assessment and family finding
  • Probation will do assessment in emergency situations
  • Finalized RFA process
  • STRTP goals – discussion about requirements
  • CPOC-probation work group - Ruth from San Mateo attends and represents Bay Area
  • Prevention was last topic
  • After-care
  • CFT
  • Inter-agencyprotocols
  • Next Meeting Jan 10
  • CFT
  • Train the trainer
  • UC1Davis
  • CFT training request
  • San Mateo
  • Similar path as others

What have you learned from these efforts? What barriers have you discovered? What has gone smoothly?

  • SM
  • CW and Prob not at the same place re: partnerships
  • Usually place youth in residential care not FH. This is very different for LE.
  • Shift in culture
  • Need to shift philosophy and training
  • Retrain, rethink practice
  • Need specialty recruitment for probation
  • Want info/presentation on how to recruit homes in probation
  • Fear won’t have families we need
  • Families might not welcome these kids
  • Want support on this
  • SF
  • Organizational change
  • Shift in language
  • Focus on families
  • Need to retrain, rethink
  • CW was already moving on Katie A, etc
  • Probation jumping in in the middle haven’t had the practice
  • Monterey
  • GH beginning to close
  • Creating placement disruption
  • More to fall off
  • Impact statewide
  • Need viable placement options
  • Need homes and families ready to take them
  • Sonoma
  • Partnership with CWS is working better because they can ride coattails of CWS
  • Vetting homes, CFTs, assessment – CWS doing it
  • Have TDM going – good place to start CFTs
  • Starting at ground zero but have CWS to look to
  • SF
  • CPM – different focus for probation
  • Youth with criminogenic needs
  • Community safety
  • Need – language differently than "high needs” need to talk about high risk youth
  • By the time kids come to probation already used up less restrictive placements
  • Napa
  • Relationship with CW is very important
  • Funding – underfunded for CCR
  • Being discussed at CPOC especially around CFTs

What support from your partners would be helpful?

Napa

  • Support and partnering with BH
  • Many youth don’t meet BH needs but need for BH services is needed

SF

  • Good relationship with BH
  • Depending on community for 24 support
  • Using some funding to work with CBO that want to move towards STRTPS to assist with MediCal & COA certification
  • One of biggest complaints from foster parents don’t get after hours support

What’s working?

  • Meetings with CWS
  • Communicating with other Probation Departments
  • Collaborative has been working
  • Rosie chairing quarterly CPOC breakout call
  • Collaborative breakout call works because not too many people

For next collaborative:

  • Breakout for probation at next collaborative
  • Explore roles in each county
  • CFTs, recruitment and retention of foster parent’s
  • Regional approach to recruiting FH for probation
  • Resources for recruitment campaigns
  • Finding other ways to support each other

Next Meeting: January 20, 2017 meeting