FYETF In-Person Meeting
California Endowment
June 7, 2010
10a – 3p
See highlighted membership list for participants
I. Welcome and Agenda Items (Miryam Choca)
Jesse would like to add a brief summary of the Ed Advocacy report. Gayle will
update the county team workgroup later as well.
II. Leg Updates (Michelle Lustig)
AB 12: Hearing on June 8th.
AB 1933: Sent to senate ed committee on May 6th. Expands AB 490 rights and
modifies ed code by allowing kids to remain in school of origin past the end of the
school year. Allows kids to matriculate with classmates.
SB 1353: Passed Senate and is in Assembly. Expands the definition of “best interest”
to include school stability. Amends welfare and inst code.
SB 1396: Moves a series of budget lines into flexibility. Includes home to school
transport, FYS, AVID, Partnership academies and child devt, etc. Many organizations
are working to formally oppose the bill.
SB 2801: Franken. Does what AB 490 does, but provides money to states to do what
CA does with FYS. Hasn’t moved from committee since October.
AB 1393: Passed in October. Ensures priority housing for former foster youth in
colleges in CA. Universities, etc are being notified so implementation can begin. It
also keeps housing open during holidays and summers.
AB 1713: Amends ed code 89340.
SB 1059: Former foster youth- clarifies which ed entities are responsible for
ensuring that youth in juv halls get treatment paid for, when applicable. Out of the
senate, and in assembly.
III. Subcommittee Updates
Child Welfare Council: Great subcommittee presentations. Talked a lot about the
workplan. Michelle Lustig gave a great presentation on FYSIS their database system.
There is a lot of support from Secretary Belshe and John Wagner to support efforts
for state level data sharing.
In the main Child Welfare Council , members talked about the out of county mental
health access issues for children and youth. Some questions discussed were as
follows: Are out of county kids receiving mental health services? What was the
penetration rate?
The data shows a large discrepancy and a discrepancy in rate of mental health
services access for out of county children . NYCL presented three strategies for
consideration: 1) make amendments to WIC § 14683 (a) and WIC 5777.6 (a), (b)
which would address this problem by placing responsibility for ‘providing or
arranging for’ mental health services to out-of-county foster children on the host
county, without reducing the existing responsibilities of the home county.; 2) Add
WIC 5777.6 (b): subsection (2) that would empower the host county to authorize
services to out-of-county children itself. The host county also has the discretion to
seek authorization from the home county. This will eliminate the communication
and administrative barriers that have impeded access to services in the host county
in the past. At the same time, the home and host counties can still serve out-ofcounty children in a coordinated manner, since the host county has the option to
seek the home county’s authorization; and 3) add to WIC 5777.6: section (c) that
would create a new claims processing system, Short Doyle/Medi-Cal II, has already
addressed part of this problem by enabling the host county to recover both the
federal and state share of the cost of serving out-of-county children directly: i.e., 95
% of the total cost. The proposed amendments address the issue of the remaining 5
% county share by authorizing the Department of Mental Health (DMH) to increase
reimbursements to a county that serves out-of-county children by 5 %. The
amendments also authorize DMH to recover that 5 % from the home county. Thus, a
host county serving an out-of-county child will be reimbursed 100 % of the cost of
care, while the county cost-share will be paid by the home county.
The CA Mental Health Directors’ representative indicated that there was not need to
change the system and that the current system was sufficient enough to meet the
mental health needs of children and youth in foster care.
CWS and CMS
Family Finding and Engagement
County Teams: Family law representation
Juvenile court assistance team (JCAT): received a presentation on the TF by Michelle
and Jackie.
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Action Items: Laura Faer is going to get the citations. We will get the
information out on Foster Ed Connect and through New Ways to Work. The
chairs will send Greg an email. Robert will send Mia an EDD contact to
forward to the leadership, who will write a letter to DSS.
Ready to Succeed and the Center for Teaching and Learning held a data forum. How
do we get to statewide data sharing to lead to the unique identifier?
CFTL pulled out all the stops to get Jack O’Connell there. It was a select group of
people who could move the conversation forward. What can we do without
legislation? Can we do an automated data sharing across systems?
General agreement to do a one time report match. What is the benefit to districts?
Improving attendance has a monetary value as well. It could be a cost neutral
project.
A report is being compiled with more information.
III. Subcommittee Updates
College Pathways: Newsletter of 51 stories of success. It will be released at the end
of June, and copies will be sent to legislators. It highlights the efforts of the
campuses who work hard to meet the needs of these former youth.
Digital stories- 10 have been completed. They will be downloaded to the College
Pathways site. They are putting together curriculum and tools for instructors.
Virtual conference on September 13th. Could we include something in the materials?
Ab 167---- for foster youth counselors in high schools.
Assessment tool- youth that are being served in programs are persisting better than
the national average.
Food stamps- foster youth ARE eligible for food stamps.
UCOP- increase and prioritize foster youth in their outreach. What does the pipeline
to college look like? How to solidify programs in higher ed. Hold a webinar on why
to prioritize and outreach to foster youth.
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Next Steps: Follow up with the food stamp issue and WIB issue. Foster youth
aren’t being informed that they are eligible. Eligibility workers need to be
alerted.
CSBA Data Forms: CSBA is not going to pursue it any further, pending input from the
task force.
Jackie thinks it would be nice for CSBA to articulate the need for data tracking to
identify kids. We will keep this on the radar. Marguerite was asked to think about a
presentation at the Ed Summit. Marguerite will ask around.
ECEC: Goal right now is to seek the adoption of the position paper.
Stuart Foundation put together a team. YLC has a lot of data on the Birth to 6.
Calswec will be taking the info and packaging it into a tool kit. West Ed will be on
board to help with population outreach.
Training for speakers bureau- counties are asked to identify a person to move the
ECEC agenda in their counties. Gayle and Jenny are working with UC Davis on the
training. First 5 is also involved.
County Outreach Subcommittee: BRC and liaisons are keeping in touch.
County Outreach for Ed Summit: Meeting at the end of this week. A survey was sent
out earlier this year about progress county teams are making. How effective are the
collaboratives? They are finding a high degree of satisfaction in smaller counties.
Larger counties complain of collaborative overload. Frustration over data sharing
was also expressed. Any efforts should be sent out to people to alleviate some of
those issues. Counties want to hear what successful counties are doing regarding
data sharing.
More on AB 167.
People generally feel connected and free to ask questions. They appreciate the
vigilance of the task force.
Summit- concerns about times to meet with teams
They want their own webinars. Webinar in the morning, regional trainings in the
afternoon?
The more counties you have sharing data, the more difficult it will be to stop.
How can we encourage BRCs to join the summit?
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Next Steps: work with Gayle to get answers to the county questions. Include
randi- do this before next call.
Michelle will be attending a meeting on data integration and she will share
about the outcomes at the next meeting.
FERPA comments are being solicited. Jackie will get the info out to the group.
Work with Chris to engage the BRC’s. Get an updated list from Chris so we
can include them in outreach.
Foster Ed Connect: User expectations have been exceeded. There is a very diverse
representation of users on the site. Numbers from out of CA will likely grow.
We’ll also send out another email for folks to forward to their listservs driving
people to the site. Follow up with Jesse about the people who have signed up for the
TF website.
Mia to encourage folks to post things on the FYETF website. Before sending
resources to Mia to send, also post it onto Foster Ed Connect. Events, meetings and
questions are very encouraged. Things at the policy level may not be appropriate.
Expect a Foster Ed Connect subcommittee meeting toward the end of the summer.
PTA Involvement:
PTA is increasingly into foster care. Past president is a foster parent. Last month
PTA had a panel discussion on foster care. It was attended by a small group of
people.
If every PTA could involve themselves in mentoring foster youth, there would be a
large impact.
Should we invite any PTA leadership members to a TF meeting? Should we engage
them at the summit?
How can PTA members act as ed reps and hold ed rights for FY? Jesse will send Erin
the info he has regarding that and the meeting in San Jose.
Look into Neighborhoods for Kids organization. PTA’s are instrumental in
identifying families for NFK.
Betsy- how to engage bio parents.
How statewide are they thinking?
Put together a one pager on foster kids to share with local campuses. Many school
districts aren’t impacted at all.
 Next Steps: Convene a group of Pat Levinson, Michelle Lustig, Kay
Fredrickson, Jesse Hahnel to meet. Mia will schedule. Reach out to see if pres
elect or current pres are interested.
Chief Probation Office of CA: interest in training around 167 and 490. More outreach
and training for probation officers. NCYL and Somesha Adams from Contra Costa
would like to explore this further.
Bring a CPOC member to the TF? We are interested in supporting them but aren’t
sure how.
V. Ed Summit Planning
Be sure and say “children and youth” to promote consistent language.
Add caregivers, youth, CASA, MH, probation and courts.
Early, k-12, higher ed
Change the word adoption
“connections”- Gayle thinks more like a continuum, rather than a connection
Jesse suggests the word “accountability” be included
Cradle to Career
Fostering Connections to Educational Success
How to acknowledge the work we have done over the years? Create awareness
about what was done in the past and connect it to the work we are doing now, and
the work we hope to do as we move forward.
We will go with the Cradle to Career - with revisions to the subtitle- include words
like connection. Etc.
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Next Steps: Michelle François will revise the theme document and share it
with the group. If anyone has any major revisions/concerns, let her know.
Logistics:
Marketing outreach to be assisted by Fenton Communications
Who isn’t able to come and how can we help them get there? Private sponsors?
Room charge is 145 plus tax. Sheridan Grand, Sacramento.
Leg: Focus on special education issues and discipline. How to frame the issues
during leg visits.
Include CYC in planning, so we can reinforce what they say during their leg visits.
Add Jesse to county outreach/ed summit committee.
Logistics - chair: Jackie Wong
Funding - chair: Betsy Degarmoe
Communications - co-chairs: Michelle Francois and Erin Saberi
Youth Engagement/Participation - chair: Katie Brown and Lyssa Trujillo
Program/Content- co-chairs: Jackie Wong, Michelle Lustig, Jenny Vinopal and
Jennifer Rodriguez
County Engagemnent - co-chairs: Gayle Wilson and Robert Taniguchi
Legislative Visits - chair: Joy Salvetti
Speakers:
Brain trauma- Aliesha Lieberman
Early childhood key note speaker has benefits
Daryl Steinberg- can speak to progress better than anyone else
Arnie Duncan
Brian Samuels
Al Franken
Content:
Charter schools and AB 490
New Visions in education
Schools closing the achievement gap- outreach to Hasan
Mental health and how MH efforts can be coordinated- Greg Manning
Ed reps and responsibilities. How to get ed reps for kids
Dignity in Schools
Family Finding
LGBTQ- Kaitiln Ryan, Bullying, and anti-bullying
Adolescent Sexuality- Norm Constantine
Cross-over youth- Peter Leon, Lois Weinberg
Boarding schools for foster youth?
0-3, something early care oriented
College and Career- Jenny and Steve Trippe
ILP, transition supports
Racial disp. and remediation in education
Darla Henry 3-5-7 model
Title IVE match and how to draw down funding for ed benefit. Big room?
Transportation
Bi-monthly summit planning/ subgroup leads meeting 2x/month until the Summit
VI. Next Steps and Close
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Laura to get alert (jobs, food stamps)
Robert will talk to Rod Powell to get workshop together
Connect with SG Trippe- distribute alert to WIBS
Chairs will send Greg note
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Karie to follow up with data on unique identifiers
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Mia Add CWS, BRCs etc as a standing item on our agenda
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Erin will work to schedule a PTA conversation in the near future
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Jesse- get AB 167 materials to Jenny for HS counselor conference
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Foster Ed Connect handout for dissemination- Jesse will provide to Mia to
send out before next conference call.
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Marguarite to explore a panel for Ed Summit on board policies around 167,
490, etc.
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Gayle will cluster county responses. Arrange phone conference to respond to
the findings
Next meeting will be a telephone conference call from 3-5p on July 12th. The call in
number is 866-866-2244 and the participant code is 6989477#.