moving child welfare into an integrated system of care

Moving Child Welfare into an Integrated System of

Care TCOM Conference

October 3, 2019 Mary Sheppard, LCSW

California’s Current System of Care

State Oversight

Child Welfare

Behavioral Health

Juvenile Probation

Education

California’s Journey

SB 163 Wraparound

Prop 63 Mental Health Services Act

Katie A. V Bonta

California Partnership for Permanency

Integrated Core Practice Model

Continuum of Care Reform

Continuum of Care Reform

Resource Family Approval

Short Term Residential Therapeutic Programs

Child and Family Teams

Why the CANS for California?

Focus on functional strengths, and actionable needs

Functional Assessment

Current use within child serving systems for BH, FFA, Wraparound, etc.

DHCS selection for all Specialty Mental Health Services

For CANS in Child Welfare

A Perfect Implementation Environment

Beautiful

Reality

An Imperfect Implementation Environment

Legislation Act With Significant Budget Change

Overburdened System

Upcoming Elections w/Administration Changes

CA Integrated Core Practice Model

The Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) is an important factor in implementing teaming and the CANS

Framework for the County level system reform of CCR

Plans for the CANS

TCOM-It’s why we are all here right?

Case Planning

Shared Accountability

Teaming

CFT/CANS Implementation Team

Guides and supports quality statewide Implementation of CFTs and CANS.

Partners

Youth Parents

County Child Welfare County Behavioral Health

Juvenile Probation Dept. of Health Care Services

Associations: CWDA, CBHDA, CPOC Praed Foundation

Challenges to Overcome

One CANS per child

Workforce Development

Reconciling differences in CANS tools

Data collection systems

Next Steps

Support the use of the data from the CANS

AB 2083 Children’s System of Care

Regional collaborative

Continuous Quality Improvement

Thank You For more information contact CDSS at

CWScoordination@dss.ca.gov