Child Welfare Services
(CWS)
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Profile of CWS in El Dorado County
2012
2013
2014
442
426
417
167 or 38%
157 or 37%
130 or 31%
268
253
211
New CWS Cases 0-5
137 or 51%
121 or 48%
85 or 40%
CWS Investigations
2488
2692
2446
Children in Care
Children in Care 0-5
New CWS Cases
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CWS Division Systemic Factors
2013
55%*
2014
15%*
Social Worker Caseloads
Low 30s
Low 20s
Social Worker Vacancy
Rate
30.3%
12.3%
Social Worker Turnover
Rate
* Rates are Approximate
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Federal Child and Family Services Review
(CFSR) and State Performance Indicators
• CFSR – Federal standards developed by the Administration of
Children and Families (ACF) to evaluate the performance of
child welfare services nationally.
• State Performance Indicators –These include the CFSR
measures and additional performance indicators developed by
the State.
• The California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) –A
collaborative venture between the University of California at
Berkeley (UCB) and the California Department of Social
Services (CDSS).
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HHSA – CWS Meets or Exceeds the National
and State Standards in the following Measures:
• No Maltreatment in Foster Care
• No Recurrence of Maltreatment in Foster Care
• Reentry into Foster Care Following Reunification
• In the past year, this measure has improved from 23.1 % to 8.8%
• Adoption Within 12 Months (17 Months In Care)
• Exits to Permanency (24 Months in Care)
• Exits to Permanency (Permanency Established prior to Age 18)
• In Care Three Years or Longer (Permanency Established prior to Age 18)
• Referrals by Time to Investigation (Immediate)
• In the past year, this measure has improved from 94.1 % to 98.0%
• Social Worker Contacts (Monthly Face-to-Face Visits with Children in Care)
• Health and Education Passport
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HHSA – CWS Falls Below the National and
State Standards in the Following Measures:
In the measures where we are not exceeding the national standard, we are seeing overall positive
trends year to date and when compared to 2013/14 data.
• Reunification Within 12 Months (Exit Cohort)
• Reunification Within 12 Months (Entry Cohort)
Both of these measures are affected by the Rate of Reentry measure, where HHSA exceeds the national standard.
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Adoption Within 24 Months (Exit Cohort)
Legally Free Within Six Months (17 Months In Care)
Adoption Within 12 Months (Legally Free)
Placement Stability (Eight Days to 12 Months in Care)
Placement Stability (12 Months to 24 Months In Care)
HHSA is just below the national standard in both of the above measures, and we have seen significant improvement in
Placement Stability (12 Months to 24 Months In Care) over the last year.
• Placement Stability (Over 24 Months In Care)
This is a difficult measure systemically to child welfare, and the State average in this measure is below the national
standard.
• Referrals by Time to Investigation (10-day)
HHSA has seen significant improvement in this area over the last year, and we are on target to meet the State’s goal in
this measure within this calendar year.
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The Federal CSFR Measures Have Changed!
New Federal CWS Performance Measures for CFSR Round 3:
• Permanency in 12 months for children entering foster care
• Permanency in 12 months for children in care 12-23 months
• Permanency in 12 months for children in care 24 months or
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Re-entry to foster care in 12 months
Recurrence of maltreatment
Placement stability
Maltreatment in foster care
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County System Improvement Plan
• Under California’s CWS accountability system, all 58 counties
receive quarterly data reports on their outcomes in the areas of
safety, permanency and well-being of children and families who
come into contact with the child welfare system. The baseline
performance data is gathered for each county and also made
available to the public.
• The current SIP is a five-year plan that began in 2012 and runs
through October of 2017
• The county will engage in a new self-assessment process in 2016
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CAPIT
What is CAPIT?
• CAPIT is the Child Abuse Prevention, Intervention and Treatment
Program designed to fund the prevention, intervention and treatment of
child abuse in California.
Priority for services shall be given to:
• Children who are at high risk, including:
• Children being served by county welfare departments for abuse and neglect.
• Children referred for services by legal, medical, or social service agencies.
• Minority populations
• Projects and services related to the needs of children, especially children
under 14 years of age.
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CAPIT
Priority shall be given to prevention programs through:
• Nonprofit agencies, including where appropriate, programs that identify and provide
services to:
• Isolated families, particularly those with children five years of age or younger;
• High quality home visiting programs based on research-based models of best
practice;
• Services to child victims of crime.
Services may include, but not be limited to:
Parent education and support programs Services provided through home visiting programs
Mental health services
Transportation Respite services Individual, group, and family counseling
Domestic violence services
Disability services
Early developmental screening and assessment
Day care
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PSSF
The primary goals of the Promoting Safe and Stable Families (PSSF) Program
are to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families,
improve the quality of care and services to children and their families, and
ensure permanency for children by reuniting them with their parents, by
adoption, or by another permanent living arrangement.
The PSSF funding is used to support services to strengthen parental
relationships and promote healthy marriages, to improve parenting skills and
increase relationship skills within the family to prevent child abuse and neglect,
while also promoting timely family reunification when children must be
separated from their parents for their own safety.
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PSSF
Services may include, but not be limited to:
Parent education and support programs Individual, group, and family counseling
Substance abuse treatment services
Domestic violence services
Mental health services
Services to afford children a safe, stable, and supportive family environment
Community‐based services to promote the Early developmental screening and safety and well‐being of children and assessment
families
Pre‐ and post‐adoptive services
Programs to increase the strength and stability of families
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CAPIT and PSSF Allocations
• The CAPIT program was realigned in 2011 and is part of the
annual CWS allocation
 $81,308 for FY 2014/15
• PSSF programs are federally funded through annual allocation
 $96,708 for FY 2014/15
• CAPIT and PSSF funds are designated to programs outlined in
the County’s SIP through 2017.
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CWS: Promising Practices
HHSA is engaged in a variety of continuous quality improvement efforts working to
meet and exceed the CSFR goals and improve the delivery of services to children
and families being served by CWS.
CSFR
• HHSA will continue to utilize Structured Decision Making (SDM) and Safety Organized Practice (SOP).
• All CPS supervisors have been trained in SafeMeasures® and have incorporated SafeMeasures® into their unit
supervision.
• HHSA will continue to collaborate with the CDSS Office of Outcomes and Accountability to develop strategies
to improve in all CSFR measures.
CWS Programs
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FYHT Task Force
Katie A. Implementation
Multidisciplinary Death Review Team (MDRT)
Foster Family Task Force
Community Based Organizations (CBO)
Collaboration Meetings
Foster Family Agency (FFA) Collaboration
Meetings
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Family Unification Program (Housing)
CFSR Quality Analysis Program
Voluntary Family Maintenance Program
Pilot Programs: Linkages, CFSR Quality
Assurance Initiative, CSEC/PACT Grant, the
Joint Jurisdictional Court (Miwok Tribe), and the
Dual Status Youth Program – Models for Change