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CHAPTER 6: PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND OUTCOMES data collection and analysis capability must be incorporated into state budget appropriations for the Departments within the Children’s Cabinet. An overview of the five year phase-in plan and implementation process lays out the expectations for the critical work that will be necessary to achieve this first recommendation over the five year project period. (See Appendix K) 2. $ DCYF must develop and implement a work plan that is geared to measure: ! progress in system of care development and ! the effectiveness of the interventions ascribed to the system. The information gathered must also be distributed to identify problems, make adjustments to improve system design and to ensure public accountability. The Department of Children, Youth and Families has established five goals to guide its system of care capacity development. These broad goals reflect the Department’s emphasis on community-based, family-centered services to ensure greater capacity for necessary placements close to the child’s home/community. An overview of the workplan for DCYF System of Care Capacity Development and Performance Measures provides a five year approach identifying the key objectives necessary to achieve the goals. (See Appendix K) The priority reform performance measures in the system reform are: ! Eliminate night-to-night placements ! Eliminate medically unnecessary days in psychiatric hospitals ! Reduce out-of-state placements All of the performance measures, however, identify key data elements being tracked for the Department’s operations in promoting continuous quality improvement in Child Welfare, Children’s Behavioral Health, Juvenile Corrections, and Independent Living program functions. 3. $ Rhode Island KIDS COUNT should continue to track child abuse and neglect, out-of-home placement, children’s mental health, education, and juvenile justice indicators to measure results such as trends in numbers of out-of-state placements and foster care. The foremost public policy principle for the State is that, unless there is reason for a child to be removed from the home due to abuse or neglect, significant mental or behavioral health needs requiring out-of home care, or juvenile delinquency, the needs of a child or youth are best met by maintaining them in their home with their family and providing the necessary support services to make this work. However, when it is necessary to remove a child and place them in out-of- home care, it is the desire of the state that this substitute care be in the setting that is least restrictive and most effectively meets that individual child’s needs. In this regard, the data collected by RI KIDS Count will assist the state in measuring what proportion of children and youth are in foster care vs. therapeutic foster care vs. congregate and institutional care. The expectation is for this data to show that a greater proportion of children and youth System of Care Task Force Report (January 2003) 52
CHAPTER 6: PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND OUTCOMES are being served in less restrictive settings as opposed to more restrictive settings, especially younger children. 4. $ DCYF must lead the development of performance measures and outcomes for Comprehensive Care Networks. This will be aimed at measuring both the lead agency itself as well as the performance of subcontracted entities in meeting the needs of children and families served. DCYF will develop utilization management and quality assurance mechanisms which will include family input/participation. These mechanisms will assess the implementation of a consistent standard of practice within the Networks that embodies the principles of the system of care. DCYF will use performance measures previously established in partnership with Yale University for outreach and tracking, foster care, shelter care, and residential programs. These and other standards, such as the CEDARR Family Center Standards, will be used to inform and guide the development and implementation of the development of a Comprehensive Care Network systems’ evaluation component to include performance and outcome measures. System of Care Task Force Report (January 2003) 53
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