STATE OF NEVADA - Division of Child and Family Services

Systemic Factor F: Agency Responsiveness to the Community
Item 38: State engagement in consultation with stakeholders
Goal: In implementing the provisions of the CFSP, the State will engage in ongoing consultation with tribal
representatives, consumers, service providers, foster care providers, the juvenile court, and other public and private childand
family-serving agencies, and ensure that the major concerns of these representatives are included in the goals and
objectives of the CFSP.
To reach this goal, the State has several objectives. The first is that the State will provide ongoing review opportunities for
key stakeholders to provide input (including the incorporation of their feedback) on the child welfare system and the
components within this plan through a variety of methods (as described in Section III of this document).
DCFS continues to actively engage and collaborate with external stakeholders through partnering and participation in
workgroups, focus groups, meetings, public presentations, and surveys for purposes related to achieving State Plan goals
and objectives. External stakeholders provide information about program functioning, policy and practice, protocol
development, share resources and information that are used in program development and planning. Each program area
identifies activities and stakeholders as part of its plan and provides reports and data about how the objectives are
achieved relative to the overarching State Plan and federal child welfare outcome indicators.
A second objective is that the State will report on stakeholder activity, including how actively engaged external partners
have been, how their input has been used and how information has been shared with the stakeholders throughout the
year between annual reviews. In the past year there has been significant stakeholder involvement in the CFSR process.
During the 2009 Statewide Assessment (SWA) and Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) stakeholders, including
internal stakeholders (state staff, administration and members of the child welfare agencies), and external stakeholders
(CASA, law enforcement, District Attorneys, courts, etc.) were identified to participate in group presentations, focus
groups, surveys and state and community level interviews. A variety of existing stakeholder groups were presented with
information on the process and were given the opportunity to provide feedback and participate in the ongoing process.
Table 39 shows the variety of stakeholders who were involved in since early 2009.
Table 39: Stakeholders involved in the 2009 CFSR process
Stakeholders
Administrative Team to Review the Death of Children
CIP - Court Improvement Project
CJA - Children's Justice Act Task Force
Clark County Department of Family Services
Clark County Foster and Adoptive Parent Association
CRP - Citizens Review Panels
Executive Committee to Review the Death of Children
ICWA Steering Committee
Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada
Nevada Division of Child and Family Services – Rural Region
Nevada Partnership for Training
SAPTA (Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act)
Sierra Association of Foster Families
Washoe County Department of Social Services
Youth Advisory Board
Caregivers & Youth
Child Welfare Agency Caseworkers and Supervisors
Nevada Judicial & Child Advocates
During the 2009 Nevada CFSR stakeholder focus groups from all agencies were held in Washoe, Clark and Carson
counties including a state level focus group. These stakeholders were local administrators, foster and adoptive parents,
juvenile court judges, representatives from law enforcement, Supervisors and Caseworkers from the agencies, CASA
representatives, tribal representatives and youth. After the 2009 CFSR the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) kick-off
Nevada APSR – SFY 2010
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