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

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IV. Strategies for training staff to work with diverse cultural, racial and economic communities Training on Cultural Sensitivity, Cultural Diversity, and Working With Culturally Diverse Populations is offered regularly. V. Strategies for dealing with linguistic barriers. The Urban League has Spanish speaking staff available to work with Spanish speaking foster care applicants. The Department’s recruiter refers families who need to complete the licensing process in Spanish to the Urban League. The Department also has a contract with the Socio-Economic Development Center's Language Bank which provides for the hiring of interpreters for a large number of foreign languages as needed. Linguistic barriers have not posed barriers to the foster home recruitment / licensing process. VI. Non discriminatory fee structure There is no fee for the foster care program. VII. Procedures for a timely search for prospective parents for a waiting child. The goal is to sufficiently increase the pool of available foster homes in order to facilitate the matching of children entering foster care with culturally similar families from the same geographical community as the child. Recruitment Activities for FY 2010 – The Department will continue its generic foster parent recruitment efforts in the coming year consistent with its current recruitment activities. The Department continues to work toward improving systemic supports for relative and nonrelative foster parents to reduce placement disruptions and ensure that foster families have necessary Number of Foster Care Homes information, service contacts and access for immediate and ongoing 2000 1800 support. As of April 27, 2009, the 1600 number of active relative and nonrelative foster homes was 1447. 1400 1200 This reference is point in time 1000 only. Preparation is underway to 800 issue a Request for Proposals from child placing agency providers in order to more effectively address the support needs of both relative and generic foster homes. New 600 400 200 0 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 4/27/09 contracts are expected to be in place soon within SFY 2010. R.I. Department of Children, Youth and Families Title IV-B Child and Family Service Plan – 2010 - 2014 21
MULTI-ETHNIC PLACEMENT PLAN Comprehensive Recruitment Plan June 2009 Report I. Objective: DCYF will maintain a description of the characteristics of waiting children. The RICHIST data base includes the following information on every child: age, race/ethnicity, sibling group, current placement, and clinical descriptors such as sexual abuse, physical abuse and/or neglect. Since the inception of RICHIST in August of 1997, the Department has been incorporating Adoption related information into the system in keeping with this objective. In 2004, new reports that were requested to be created in RICHIST include: Number of children with the goal of adoption; Names of children with the goal of adoption; Number of adoption disruptions (pre-finalization); Number of adoption dissolutions (post-finalization); as well as a Breakdown of the numbers of disrupted and dissolved adoptions to identify whether they were foster care adoptions and stranger adoptions. Since September of 2005, a Pending Adoptions report has been made available to staff in the Adoption Unit. Based on this report we can state that as of June 16, 2009, there are currently 276 children with the case plan goal of adoption. Of that number, 253 had an approved adoption registration. 0f the 253 with an approved adoption registration, 42 were going to be adopted by their foster family, 31were going to be adopted by their relative foster family and 180 were listed as needing an adoptive resource. The racial mix of the 180 children needing adoptive resources is 114 listed as Caucasian, 57 as African- American or African-American/White, 6 listed as AI/AN, 1 listed as NH/PI and 2 for whom the race was “undetermined”. Of the 180 listed as needing an adoptive resource, 155 are currently active with Adoption Rhode Island for services. 53 of these children have already been placed in pre-adoptive homes, 12 are matched and visiting, 18 are on hold for reasons having to do with the child’s needs, leaving 72 children for whom we are actively recruiting adoptive resources. The RICHIST data base includes data on all freed for adoption and legal risk children. Additionally, it provides the Department with ongoing statistical information which can aid in improving adoption practice. DCYF works with our community partners to develop or contract for placement resources in a creative way to meet what we feel are the presenting needs of the children and youth at a particular point in time; with now-available data and some more planful design on a systems basis, we can be even more effective. We will soon be in a position to better target recruitment in terms of type of placement and other resources needed in various cities and towns throughout Rhode Island. R.I. Department of Children, Youth and Families Title IV-B Child and Family Service Plan – 2010 - 2014 22
Page 1 and 2: RHODE ISLAND Title IV-B Child and F
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