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PREFACE While the Task Force made very effort to design a comprehensive System of Care, recognizes the challenges inherent in the implementation of any systemic change. Further, the Task Force recognizes that a body of law exists, both state and federal, which comprises the underpinnings of child welfare, juvenile justice, and children’s behavioral health services. This report, its recommendations, and implementation plan must be viewed within that framework. System of Care Task Force Report (January 2003) 12
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This plan for an Organized System of Care for Children, Youth and Families is one that has been evolving for more than two decades. During this span of time, the system has grown -- with each attempt at crafting a better plan to ensure that children and families receive the right services to meet their needs. However, during these past 20 years, the growth has been biased in favor of residential treatment to the detriment of the development of community-based capacity that supports and engages families as partners in the helping process with children. We have not sufficiently invested in prevention or early intervention to identify and meet the needs of children, youth and families. There has been a paucity of data to guide better decision-making. This plan finally establishes a foundation to act from national research and local knowledge. This report mandates a stronger, more urgent commitment to prevention and early intervention and education and, importantly, places a deep emphasis on ensuring an organized system of coordinated services and care. Rhode Island’s organized System of Care for Children, Youth and Families is built on the strengths of families and communities, the successes of past initiatives, and is responsive to the challenges of the past. It is a system that is operationally feasible, financially realistic and supported by broad consensus. This system is the strategic instrument for moving the State closer to the four outcomes embraced by the Rhode Island Children’s Cabinet and other key state and community leaders: ! All Children Entering School Ready to Learn ! All Youth Leaving School Ready to Lead Productive Lives ! All Children and Youth Safe in Their Homes, Neighborhoods and Schools ! All Children Living in Families that are Self-Sufficient, yet Inter-Dependent Within the pages of this document, there are three critical interwoven themes: ! Family-Centered Practice; ! Prevention and Education; and, ! Promoting Best Practices. The fundamental values at the core of this plan are recognition and support for the role of the family as the primary caregiver for children, and that the optimum interventions for any individual child and their family are those most proximate to home with the full resources of the community made available to that child and family. This Plan also recognizes that “family” includes biological parents, adoptive families, extended kinship networks, legal guardians and temporary fostering families. The Organized System of Care provides all families and primary care-givers ready access to the resources necessary to meet their child’s developmental needs. The system has mechanisms to redirect cost savings from reduced reliance on restrictive and expensive outof-home placements to community-based prevention and intervention services. Included among these resources are those that meet the basic needs of all children for healthy System of Care Task Force Report (January 2003) 13
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