Continuum of Care Reform Convening

Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) CONVENING 8/21/15 REGIONAL REPORT OUT ACTION STEPS ______

104 in person participants, several CDSS staff on the phone.

STATEWIDE

Bay Area

. Improve coordination and delivery between CWS and Community Colleges(CC’s) o Convening of CWS and CC’s . Recognize high cost of living in Bay Area o Develop Regional approach to exceptions to rates for Bay Area; o Develop Regional approach to exceptions to licensing requirements (e.g. space limitations).

Central Valley

. Same statewide issue with Community Colleges as Bay Area o Revisit purpose and allocation; recognizing variation of utilization of CC resource family training . Address Inequality of funding allocations formulae that vary among counties—for licensing, reimbursement rates, etc.

Northern/Mt. Valley

. No additional statewide issues.

Southern

. Convene quarterly convening meetings . Timely direction vis a vis use of media—make sure counties are up to date on regulations . Update state marketing campaign

Other statewide Ideas:

. Webinars to follow-up the morning panel . Explore use of ETO to develop statewide metrics about resource families . Support for social media approaches---both creating a statewide Facebook page and providing how-to tools for local communities . Communications training and training-the-trainer . Support for recruitment strategies for special needs children and youth (medical, SOGIE, Transgender, etc.) Continuum of Care Reform Convening

REGIONAL and LOCAL

Bay Area

. Bay Area Regional Children’s Committee to devote time to this question; develop a working committee to address some of these ideas: o Share kinship support services; o Develop Regional website to share resource family handbooks, training, etc. o Regional solution to CSEC housing o Develop master contracting with companies that serve resource families—leverage quantity buying (e.g. Home depot, Target) o Develop capacity for Regional grant writing to support resource family work o Regional approach to recruitment o Region-wide media and communications plan

Central Valley

. Evaluate rates issue in relationship to how they are established; develop flexibility to meet the needs of high-needs children

Northern/Mountain Valley

. Look at their data—who are the resource families, why they became resource families? . Look at data collection system; ETO or something else . Media campaign in the North state; strategies for recruiting in small rural communities . Use social media---Facebook, etc. . Regional web page to post resource information . Faith-based partnerships—for recruitment as well as working with the friends of foster parents to support resource families for things like respite care . Pool resources to support workforce development; create hubs to support one another—Joint Powers Administration (?) to support cross-county mentoring programs, etc. . Northern 2-day 9/16 & 9/17 convening to build on today’s conversations

Southern

. Looking at hub model/Mockingbird . Use social media for recruitment and support (like Yolo County) . Leverage communications within QPI to help other counties . Develop retention and support within the counties; i.e. ambassador program . Make sure the resource families are at the table when discussing the Core Practice Model . Faith in Motion . Break down county communications to neighborhoods . Refine communications---what is it, why is it valuable? What is permanency?