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

Activities
Person
Overseeing
Activity
Completion
Date
o
Status/Update
of 2009.
Next Steps: work with MIS to develop
necessary programming changes to support
restructuring.
2. Work with DCYF Licensing
staff to improve record keeping
system so that files will be readily
accessible at all times.
Kevin
Savage
3/31/2009
May 2009
o
o
o
o
Staff meetings have taken place since the
review to discuss the need for accurate and
orderly record keeping. When the 20 cases
are pulled, an audit of licensing records will
be pulled and each worker will be evaluated
on record keeping and personal and general
feedback will be given in order to improve the
system. The redesign will move the process
to private agencies and they will be trained on
how DCYF would like the records submitted
to the department.
Cases will be pulled in January 2009. A team
has been identified to review the records,
report on findings and to recommend changes
to the Licensing Administrator and Agency
Director.
DCYF re-ran the “average length of licensure”
calculation in May 2009.
The results showed, on average, homes are
being licensed within 6 months.
3. Maintain copies of licenses and
background checks in the IV-E
foster care and adoption subsidy
files as well as the foster care
licensing files.
Lisa
McInnis
n/a o Not yet implemented.
o DCYF discussed revision of the goal with
ACF.
o Goal was determined to be unrealistic and
unachievable.
Goal III. Improve AFDC Eligibility Determination Practices
1. Establish procedures to
document child income during the
re-determination process and
document that in RICHIST.
Lisa
McInnis
December
2009
o
o
It is being done manually at the time of
re-determination. See below for
electronic documentation.
The process is continuing to be done
manually. The automation request with
MIS is in queue; programming is subject
to other priorities. Completion is
anticipated in the Fall.
1a. Work with MIS to design
supporting programming needs to
meet the requirements of goal 1.
Leon
Saunders
Lisa
McInnis
Ongoing o Information regarding a child’s income
must be added to the IV-E redetermination
checklist to demonstrate
that the ET verified the child’s income. It
was decided that the re-det checklist will
become a tabbed window. The existing
information will remain on one tab and a
new Financial tab will be added.
R.I. Department of Children, Youth and Families
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