Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) CONVENING
8/21/15
REGIONAL REPORT OUT
ACTION STEPS
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104 in person participants, several CDSS staff on the phone.
STATEWIDE
Bay Area
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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
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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
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No additional statewide issues.
Southern
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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:
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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
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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
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Evaluate rates issue in relationship to how they are established; develop flexibility to meet the needs of
high-needs children
Northern/Mountain Valley
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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
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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?
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