The McKinney-Vento Act and Children and Youth ... - State of Michigan
The McKinney-Vento Act and Children and Youth ... - State of Michigan
The McKinney-Vento Act and Children and Youth ... - State of Michigan
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STRATEGY<br />
Build informal<br />
relationships with<br />
colleagues in the<br />
complementary agency,<br />
supplemented by regular,<br />
ongoing meetings to<br />
discuss concerns <strong>and</strong><br />
adjust policies <strong>and</strong><br />
practices based on<br />
lessons learned.<br />
IMPLEMENTATION TIPS<br />
• Meet with counterparts in other agencies to<br />
explain the services you provide <strong>and</strong> discuss<br />
challenges.<br />
• Institutionalize your collaborations through<br />
regular meetings or a formal agreement to revisit<br />
policies <strong>and</strong> practices at determined intervals.<br />
• Inform counterparts in other agencies <strong>of</strong> relevant<br />
policy changes immediately.<br />
• Establish a formal collaboration group with<br />
regular meetings <strong>and</strong> shared goals.<br />
• Exchange actual contact lists with each other:<br />
names, phone numbers <strong>and</strong> emails.<br />
• Regularly update <strong>and</strong> renew contacts to maintain<br />
relationships <strong>and</strong> address staff turnover.<br />
Offer ongoing training<br />
opportunities to help<br />
each agency underst<strong>and</strong><br />
the policies, practices,<br />
<strong>and</strong> priorities <strong>of</strong> the other.<br />
• Provide <strong>McKinney</strong>-<strong>Vento</strong> <strong>Act</strong> training at new<br />
caseworker orientations, annual caseworker<br />
conferences, <strong>and</strong> resource fairs.<br />
• Include information about education <strong>and</strong> the<br />
<strong>McKinney</strong>-<strong>Vento</strong> <strong>Act</strong> in child welfare policy<br />
manuals.<br />
• Provide training on child welfare policies to<br />
<strong>McKinney</strong>-<strong>Vento</strong> staff, school counselors,<br />
teachers, <strong>and</strong> administrators.<br />
• Teach child welfare staff about the value <strong>of</strong> school<br />
stability, <strong>and</strong> education staff about the impact <strong>of</strong><br />
abuse <strong>and</strong> neglect.<br />
• Invite alumni from foster care to share their<br />
perspectives with educators <strong>and</strong> child welfare<br />
administrators.<br />
Consider using a<br />
third party to facilitate<br />
communication between<br />
agencies.<br />
• Hold local interagency roundtable discussions<br />
about implementation challenges <strong>and</strong> strategies,<br />
facilitated by state agencies.<br />
20 <strong>The</strong> <strong>McKinney</strong>-<strong>Vento</strong> <strong>Act</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Children</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Youth</strong> Awaiting Foster Care Placement