FYETF Conference Call
October 2011
3:00 – 5:00 PM
I. Welcome and Agenda Review
II. Ed Court Presentation, Roxanna
Roxanna from LACY joined to give us an overview of the middle school court. It
launched in January of 2010 with 24 children in out of home care. They were
randomly selected.
Once the children were selected the department pulled their ed records reviewed
their files to make recommendations.
An off the record hearing is then scheduled with the child, judge, etc. The child
gets one on one time with the judge to get more information and for the child to
get a level of comfort with the court.
A few months later they reconvene for a follow up meeting.
Feedback from the youth displays that they enjoy having time to talk with the
judge one on one.
Hearings are held in the afternoon so that staff can meet in the morning and task
out “to do’s”.
III. Special Topics Next Steps, Susanna Kniffen
Ed Advocacy
AB 490/1933
Disciplinary Action
Higher Ed/ Post secondary
Early Care and Education
MH Collaboration
Subgroups will research areas and come back to the FYETF with ideas on how
to move forward to fix those things. They will provide updates on calls and the
subgroups will give presentations at quarterly in-person meetings.
Each group will also develop a white paper prior to the Ed Summit to help inform
that work.
If you would like to join a subgroup or know of someone to refer, please let Mia
know.
IV. Updates
Early Care- Part C regulations are out. Should we announce this information
strategically? Webinar? Fact Sheet? Tahra would be interested in helping any
effort.
A youtube video exists. Cheryl will send to Mia.
Tahra shared that the Birth to Three national training info is available. Podcasts
are also available. Policy recommendations will be ready to share in the next
week or two.
Higher Ed/ Postsecondary- Jordan let everyone know that the SMART tool will be
ready for roll out within the next few weeks. What is the best way for post sec
people to flag their foster youth students? Jordan will be contacting people for
input on that.
The monitoring of FY in college will help to improve priority enrollment.
The 194 clarification- to year 24??
Dependency letter to leave care with can be presented for entitlement to priority
class enrollment.
Leg Update- See Michelle’s leg sheet.
ACL on education travel reimbursement went out. Ann will send copy to Mia for
her to send out.
Jenny had a question on Katie A and what that could mean for counties. We may
find someone to speak to this during our next TF meeting.
V. Guardian Scholars SMART Tool
Jordan provided the FYETF with a walk-through of the Guardian Scholars
SMART Tool.
VI. Working Summit Discussion
What kinds of topics and committees should we focus on to coordinate a working
Summit?
Day One: Speed sharing/ policy and practice focus information sharing and
workshops for day one.
Day Two: Planning how working groups, focused on the special topics areas, will
be formed and facilitated through their work together on Day 2.
County, Youth & Partner Engagement: it was suggested youth engagement be
folded into county engagement, as youth are team members, and that other
partners important to include in this kind of working summit be identified by this
committee.
Overall Program: This includes working directly with the event planner, tracking
registration, updating the web site, collecting money, lining up speakers and
scripts.
Michelle shared that the first year Summit concluded with a leg component.
Although we are not planning a leg visit, there was a suggestion that perhaps a
session at the end of Day 2 that helps folks understand how to take the special
topics work back and move it forward locally with policy makers could be helpful.
We will check in with Susanna.
Finance Committee: Ursula will help.
Next Steps:
Have FYETF members sign up for summit planning committees they are
interested in. We will not assume anyone who expressed interest on the previous
survey is still interested. Each committee needs 2 chairs and should hold
frequent coordinating calls.
Cathy’s role will be fleshed out, and she will be in frequent communication with
committee leads.
We will discuss proposed meeting dates and the Katie A. settlement next month.