CFSP 5 Year Plan - RI Department of Children, Youth & Families

Child and Family Service Plan Goals PIP Strategies National Outcomes
Measures
#3: Promote adoption or other planned living
arrangement when reunification is not achievable.
Family Centered Practice
Enhance foster/adoptive
parent recruitment,
retention and support
Maintain high % of children
who exit to adoption that
occurred within 24 months
from removal.
#4: Transition all children and youth from public
supported care with the supports, skills and
competencies in place to ensure stability and
permanency.
Family Centered Practice
Quality Assurance/CQI
Family Court
Relationship and Legal
Issues
Increase % of exits to
reunification that occurred
within 12 months from time
of entry.
Reduce % of children reentering
foster care within
12 months of a previous
placement.
#5: Enhance the capacity of employees, foster
parents and providers to deliver high quality care to
children and families.
Increase opportunities for
Professional Development
Training
Quality Assurance/CQI
In furtherance of this logic model, the Department organized the 45 items of its Program
Improvement Plan under the five overarching goals, aligned with the seven strategies and the
national outcome measures for the Title IV-B Child and Family Service Plan (CFSP).
More directly in relation to the PIP, fourteen (14) items from the CFSR outcomes were
selected as the “critical” items for the Program Improvement Plan. These critical items
specifically address fundamental practice changes which the Department felt would have the most
direct impact on the national outcomes. At this time, the DCYF has achieved twelve (12) of the
PIP items. Two remain under review based on additional data that was provided to the
Administration for Children and Families’ Children’s Bureau. The following table provides an
outline of DCYF’s performance on these measures.
R.I. Department of Children, Youth and Families
Title IV-B Child and Family Service Plan – 2010 - 2014
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