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

In the first thirty two (32) months of operation, mid-April 2006 to December 31, 2008,
there were 1,455 children under the age of 3 who were referred for services. Of this, 68% were
referred to Early Intervention
Number of Children < 3 Involved in a CPS Investigation in SFY 2008 –
Referred for Services
# Indicated Referred
to an EI Program.
programs and 32% were referred to
other early childhood and family
support programs. However, in the
table below, for SYF 2008, we’re
seeing the percentage of referrals to
EI programs increasing to 81%
compared with 18% being referred to
other early child development
community programs.
On average, DCYF conducts
about 120 investigations per month in which a child under the age of three is involved.
Approximately 55% of these investigations will result in a substantiated case of child abuse
and/or neglect for the involved child. Not all children identified in a substantiated investigation
will be referred to EI services, which is the purpose and benefit of having the nurse liaison
working with CPS investigators to assist in determining which children are most likely to be
eligible for EI services.
The Department continues to make progress in tracking the outcome of its referral
process for Early Intervention program services. An inter-departmental agreement was recently
updated between DCYF and the Department of Human Services (DHS), which administers the
EI program. The EI programs report to DHS on the number of children referred from DCYF to
their programs. Of relevance is that DCYF made a referral for 284 children who were victims
of an indicated investigation for SFY 2008. The DHS data show that 292 referrals were
received from DCYF by an EI program. It is expected that the DHS number also includes some
of the referrals from non-indicated investigations. The DHS data also provide a breakdown of
the enrollment status and the eligibility criteria on which the referral was based. For SYF 2008,
data represent that 172 children
referred through DCYF were
enrolled in an EI program.
Safe Families
Collaboration –
284
# Non-Indicated
Referred to an EI
Program. 176
Total Referred to
Early Intervention
(EI) Program 460
(81%)
# Indicated Referred
to Other Community
Program. 76
# Non-Indicated
Referred to Other
Community Program. 29
Total Referred to
Other Program. 105
(18%)
The Department is
continuing its Safe Families
Collaboration program with the
Rhode Island Coalition Against
Domestic Violence which also
has a co-location liaison working
Total Indicated
360
Total
Non-indicated
205
Total All
565
Law
Enforcement
Reported Data
for 2007
Statewide
DCYF
Region III
(26% of
Statewide)
DCYF
Region IV
(37% of
Statewide)
Number of DV
Reports to State
and Local Police 5,066 1,323 2,006
Number of
Children Present 1,446 377 534
Percent of DV
Incidents with
Children Present 28.5% 28.5% 26.6%
through CPS. The program Source: Rhode Island Kids Court 2009 Factbook
works with cases involved in
Regions III and IV where there is a marked prevalence of domestic violence impacting families
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