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Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
MCWIC Purpose
Our purpose is to facilitate the implementation of systemic change to improve outcomes for children and families
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Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Our approach• Multidisciplinary staff and consultant expertise
http://ccfl.unl.edu/about/faculty-staff
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Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Our approach• Multidisciplinary staff and consultant expertise
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Major Activities and Accomplishments
• Identification and hiring of core staff
• Locating, securing and equipping office space
• Designing and publishing MCWIC’s website
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Major Activities and Accomplishments
Forming and strengthening relationships with our FPO, Regional Office staff in ACF Regions V & VII, members of the T/TA Network, and
CB Central Office staff and leadership
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Major Activities and Accomplishments
Outreach to States and Tribes teleconferences, e-mail, on-site focused on Tribal outreach
went to ICWA Coalition meetings in Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska
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First Tribal Gathering
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Creating Connections to Enhance Tribal Child Welfare Systems
March 19, 2009
Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin
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First Tribal Gathering Goals
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• Begin to establish relationships
• Build and reinforce peer connections
• Develop participants’ knowledge & skill
• Provide RFA process guidance & support
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First Tribal Gathering
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Plenary Session: Challenges in Raising Healthy Native American Children from a
Child Welfare PerspectivePriscilla Day, Professor of Social Work,
University of Minnesota-Duluth
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First Tribal Gathering
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Work Groups
• Challenges in Tribal Child Welfare• Needs: what would help?• Strengths and resources in our community• Building coalitions• Report out: sharing approaches & ideas
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First Tribal Gathering
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Feedback Keynote presentation provided useful information – 81% agree or strongly agree. 96% made at least one new peer contact.
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First Tribal Gathering
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Feedback
92% interested in attending another Gathering event.
85% feel comfortable contacting MCWIC
staff.
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First Tribal Gathering
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Feedback
Satisfied with opportunities to discuss networking – 95% agree or strongly agree.
Better informed about opportunities for
Implementation Projects with MCWIC – 73% agree or strongly agree.
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Regional Forum Goals
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• Build and reinforce participants’ connections
• Identify participants’ needs for peer connections
• Build participants’ knowledge and skill
• Provide project application guidance and support
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First Regional Forum
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Attendance
• Eight of ten states • twelve of twenty-nine tribes• Eighty-six participants:
• 27 from state agencies • 29 from tribal agencies• Representatives from
• T/TA Network• Regional Offices • Children’s Bureau Central Office
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First Regional Forum
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• 93% of participants said they would benefit from additional peer to peer
networking • 82% of participants said they understood
the purpose of MCWIC
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First Regional Forum
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• 52% of participants were using a multidisciplinary problem solving approach
• 73% indicated the approach was one they would try and use more
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First Regional Forum
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• 84% of participants understood the purpose of and eligibility criteria for
implementation projects
• 87% of participants understood MCWIC’s RFA process
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First Regional Forum
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• 92% of participants indicated they had an increased understanding of the theory and
practice involved in implementing change in child welfare systems because of the
information presented by Tony Hemmelgarn and Peter Watson
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First Regional Forum
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• 92% of our participants said they had an increased understanding of the importance and
role of leadership in child welfare system change based on Judge James Payne’s
presentation on Leadership of Child Welfare System Change
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First Regional Forum
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• 78% of participants rated the organization and format of the forum very good or
excellent
• several participants thought the one and one half day conference was too short a time
period and several suggested at least two days would be helpful
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Request for Application Process
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Application Review Process
review by • MCWIC • MCWIC’s External Consultants • T/TA Network • Children’s Bureau
• Central Office• Regional Office• CFSR Unit
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MCWIC Selected Site
* five additional project applications currently under review
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Iowa Department of Human Services
Partnering with Parents for System Change
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MCWIC Selected SiteState / Agency Project
Iowa Department of Human Services
Parents with prior system involvement will mentor parents with children in care to support the completion of case plan goals, and educate parents regarding available services. This project will also build a cadre of parents actively engaged in all levels of child welfare practice and policy development in Iowa.
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MCWIC Approved Project
* five additional project applications currently under review
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Indiana Department of Child Services
Statewide Implementation of a Centralized Intake Unit
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MCWIC Approved Project
State / Agency Project Indiana Department of Child Services
The Indiana DCS is developing a centralized intake unit with specially trained and centrally located staff. This centralized system will replace the current system of approximately 210 different phone numbers staffed by case managers, supervisors and contract employees located throughout the 92 counties in Indiana.
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Second Tribal Gathering
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Building the Future on Traditional Values
August 27-28, 2009
Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel Tama, IA
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Second Tribal Gathering
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
• Strategic Planning and Tribal Practice Models
• State/Tribal/County Partnerships
• Tribal Child Welfare Data & Technology Considerations
• Keynote: When our children are old, will they know we fought for them?
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Second Tribal Gathering
Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
50 participants
11 different tribes represented
Regions V & VII Office Representatives
3 state ICWA specialists
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Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Peer Networkinghttp://connect.mcwic.org
MCWIC’s Connect will provide the advantages of internet community sites in a controlled environment without distracting advertising and will provide features that
meet the unique needs of state, county, and tribal child welfare workers.
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Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Peer Networking
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Midwest Child Welfare Implementation Center
Peer Networking
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MCWIC Implementation Project Evaluation Plan Process
• Outcomes & methods developed cooperatively
• Project evaluations conducted by MCWIC in cooperation with State/Tribe
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MCWIC Implementation Project Evaluation Plan Process
• Outcomes focused on– Formative implementation process– Child Welfare System Improvement– Direct Project Outcomes– Child and Family Outcomes
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Questions?
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