1. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts Office of Children & Families in The Courts

2. Today’s Agenda:  Brief Update – What’s completed… What’s Happening Now… What’s coming…

3. Completed

4. Judicial Analyst County Assignments

5. Children’s Roundtable Initiative Children’s Roundtable Initiative structure in place Eight Leadership Roundtables –Co-chairs Statewide Roundtable

6. Children’s Roundtable Initiative encourage a strong collaboration between the court and agency, includes all stakeholders free flow of ideas, problems and solutions All practices and initiatives taken on by the OCFC are vetted through the Pennsylvania Roundtable governance structure

7. Children’s Roundtable Structure

8. Guiding Principles Committee Chaired by The Honorable J. Brian Johnson, Lehigh County Mission Statement and Guiding Principles Pennsylvania Child Dependency System

9. Permanency Practice Initiative Permanency Practice Initiative Phase One Implemented Phase One Counties – Allegheny, Blair, Butler, Carbon, Dauphin, York, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Snyder, Venango, Washington, Jefferson, Chester, Northampton Phase 1 County Meeting

10. Expected Outcomes Increase in –Child, Family & Community participation –Community based services –Prevention services –Placement stability –Permanent, life-connections for older youth –Safe & timely permanency

11. PPI Practice Components Three (3) Month Court Review Family Group Decision Making Children’s Roundtable (leadership & oversight team) CPCMS Dependency Module Family Finding Family Development Credentialing 3-5-7 Model

12. Three (3) Month Court Review More frequent review of cases provides for greater accountability: –families –providers –workers –court –agency All Phase 1 Counties have moved to 3 month reviews

13. Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) Voluntary decision making process Guided by values and beliefs Organizational Change/Practice Shift 2009 International FGDM Conference – Legal Track

14. CPCMS Dependency Module CPCMS live in 65 of 67 counties CPCMS Forms sub- committee of the Juvenile Court Rules Committee court case management reports and outcome data

15. Family Finding (FF) Finds Families (extended families) Combines: common sense, social work, detective work, and technology Search for families at intake and throughout the life of the case Connects to other family focused practices Real work begins once family members are found

16. Family Finding (FF) Completed: Training for county users –6 of 6 sessions –40 real cases –14 PPI Counties Accurint

17. Family Development Credentialing (FDC) Process to develop a network of strength- based community providers Advisory group (Local Roundtable) Includes: – Instructor Training (80hrs) & Portfolio Advisors (10hrs) –Course work & transfer of learning hours –Credentialed through Cornell University

18. Family Development Credentialing (FDC) Completed Family Development Credentialing –3 Instructors Institutes trained over 75 instructors in 15 counties –Portfolio Advisor Training underway

19. What’s Happening Now?

20. Permanency Practice Initiative - Phase 2 Adams Armstrong Bucks Cumberland Franklin Fulton Indiana Luzerne Montgomery Tioga

21. Permanency Practice Initiative - Phase 2 Phase 2 County site visits Same components as Phase 1 Supported by OCFC, OCYF, CWTP, SWAN, CAAP, Phase 1 Counties

22. Children’s Roundtable Summit September 24 – 26 Pittsburgh, PA Meeting of Children’s Roundtable Members

23. Benchbook Dependency Bench Book Committee – Chair, Honorable Chester Harhut, Lackawanna county Details Court Hearings’ Best Practices Science piece – trauma, attachment, grief/loss

24. 3-5-7 Model Understanding of Grief, Loss & Attachment In Pennsylvania this Model is known as the Child Preparation Unit of Service Training for Phase 1 Counties

25. What’s Coming Training for Judges, Attorneys & Advocates Truancy Prevention Fostering Connections Grant –Kinship Navigator –Family Finding Concurrent Planning Data Exchange

26. Questions

27. Contacts Cathy Utz, DPW/OCYF (717)-705-2912; cutz@state.pa.us cutz@state.pa.us Angelo Santore (717) 795-2000 ext 3825; angelo.santore@pacourts.us angelo.santore@pacourts.us