1. Coordinating Services for Parents and Children
Barbara Dude
Family Services Administrator
Lexy Gallant
Family Preservation Coordinator

2. Agenda
Overview of Tlingit & Haida services and In-Home Case Management Model
Demonstration of Structured Decision Making for family prevention services
Discuss the successes and challenges of collaboration and service delivery
Questions

3. Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Central Council) is a tribal government representing more than 30,000 Tlingit and Haida Indians worldwide. We are a sovereign entity and have a government to government relationship with the United States.
Central Council's headquarters are in Juneau, Alaska but our commitment to serving the Tlingit and Haida people extends throughout the United States.
CCTHITA serves the following communities under our Indian Child Welfare Act Program:
Craig
Haines
Juneau
Klawock
Saxman
Wrangell
Kasaan

4. Southeast Traditional Tribal Values
Endorsed by our Elders
Reflects basic human needs
Restoring the balance of tribal peoples

5. Tlingit & Haida Family Services
Tlingit & Haida offers many family related services to support our tribal families. Easy access to professional, respectful services is our commitment. Our goal is a community of healthy families invested in the future of their Tribe.
We Offer:
Tribal Child Welfare
Child Care
Elderly Services
Employment & Training
Wellness (Suicide Prevention, DV support)
Financial Assistance
Central Council offers a variety of family-centered services focused on promoting and supporting safe and stable families. These services assist individuals in attaining the education and skills necessary to support healthy lifestyles, develop meaningful careers and engage in the traditional activities of their communities.
Services include information and referral, case management, financial assistance, foster and child care, training, vocational rehabilitation, nutrition and other supportive services. The programs are designed to address immediate and long term needs associated with family well-being and financial self-sufficiency.
Services are provided in collaboration with tribes and key state, local, faith-based and private agency partners. The programs are supported jointly, through contracts and agreements with private, local, state and federally funded agencies, with the majority of resources generated from federal grants.

6. Haa Kusteeyix Sitee -Burial Assistance -Cultural Camps
-Totem Pole Raising
-Girls on the Run
-Language
-Aunties House
-Potlatch
-Cultural Practices
-Elders
-Songs
-Memorials
-Subsistence
-Dance
-Beading
-Stories
Haa Kusteeyix Sitee
-Burial Assistance
-Housing
-Food banks
-TANF
-Love, Inc.
-WIC
-St. Vincents
-Churches
-Food Distribution
-Section 8
-Commodity
-Energy Asst.
-SSI/SSDI
-Child Care
The CCTHITA In-Home Services Model is grounded in the mission of the Tribal Family and Youth Services (TFYS) Department and the tribe’s commitment to developing and enacting a Systems of Care approach to serving families. The TFYS mission is “to plan and provide culturally sensitive services that advocate for the achievement of economic self sufficiency and social well-being for tribal members, families and tribal communities.”
The TFYS philosophy is to support Southeast’s Native population in a manner culturally sensitive and appropriate. Services are delivered by staff who are knowledgeable about local cultural values and who possess in-depth understanding of Native families, clan/ community structures and their importance in the delivery of social services. The overall goal of the Department is to ensure a holistic approach for families when a crisis or potential crisis exists. Staff have worked hard over the last decade to develop relationships and systems for working effectively with other agencies, in order to provide the best level of service to as many Native families as possible.
The family strengths and needs assessment/reassessment is a structured assessment the Preserving Native Families (PNF) case workers can use to assess family functioning across 9 domains. Results can then be used by the PNF case worker to structure a case plan that incorporates family strengths while addressing priority family needs.

7. TFYS Involvement in a Child Welfare Case
Prevention/
Early Intervention
CPS Investigation
In-Home Services
Removal
Permanency
Focus on prevention piece
Families first contact is often with economic assistance
Timeline (slide 11 of old powerpoint):
Prevention – CPS Investigation – In home Services – removal – permanency

8. Guiding Principles
Tlingit & Haida child welfare services are committed to Alaska Native families
TFYS staff collaborate with other Tlingit & Haida tribal programs and with non-tribal community agencies
Out-of-home placement is prevented whenever possible
Careful planning for out-of-home care
Parents can learn effective parenting techniques and strategies
TFYS staff recognizes historical trauma
CCTHITA child welfare services function with a commitment to the preservation and strengthening of Alaska Native families, preventing out-of-home placement whenever possible, careful planning and recording which ensures that the least detrimental alternatives are provided, maintaining family ties and responsibilities, reunification of families; and to alternative permanent plans for children who cannot return home.
 Tribal Child Welfare Case Managers work on behalf of children with families, recognizing and encouraging the strengths of each extended family, learning from each family who they are and what they value for their child(ren).

9. Structured Decision Making® Prevention Services Model
Introduce CRC

10. Why Prevention Services for TANF Families?
TANF applicants are at high risk for future child maltreatment (estimates between 20-60%)
Providing additional supports and services can strengthen families before problems become severe
Prevention services are limited and need to be targeted to families at greatest risk

11. SDM Prevention Services Assessments
Use research to inform assessment process
Provide workers with reliable, valid, equitable and useful assessment tools
Provide managers with data to improve planning, evaluation and resource allocation

12. SDM Assessments Likelihood of future harm
Open prevention services case or traditional TANF
At initial in-person contact
Screening Assessment
Identify family/child strengths and needs
Prioritize services in prevention service plan
At the family team meeting
Family/Child Strengths and Needs Assessment
Continue with services or close the prevention services component
Every 90 days
Screening Reassessment
SDM Assessments

13. Child Neglect Risk Factors Child Abuse Index Scored Risk Level
Overrides
Components
Screening Assessment
What is the likelihood of future harm?
Should prevention services be provided?
What intensity of service is required?

14. Family/Child Strengths and
Caregiver domains
Child domain
Prioritizatiom
Components
Family/Child Strengths and
Needs Assessment
What are the priority needs that should be addressed in prevention service plan?
What existing strengths can be used to address needs?

15. Progress toward case plan Components
Static risk factors
Current conditions
Progress toward case plan
Components
Screening Reassessment
What is the likelihood of future harm?
Should prevention services be closed or extended?
If extended, what intensity of service is required?

16. Web-based System Data

17. Successes and Challenges to Service Delivery
Assessment tools easy to use and help guide workers in building plans
Provides Structure
Families access services when they are in crisis
Trust and relationship with their caseworkers
Family identifies their strengths and help build case plans
Strength based and client driven
Wrap around services provided to the family
Collaboration with TANF staff, the family and other service providers

18. Successes and Challenges to Service Delivery
TANF turnover and buy in to the program
Difficulty getting referrals
Attendance to joint training is low
Families don’t keep appointments with caseworkers
Causes delays in timeline requirements
Only seek caseworker assistance in times of crisis, not day to day

19. SDM® Prevention Services Model Summary
Screen families who are applying for TANF services
Offer prevention services to those who will benefit the most (high or very high risk families)
Assess strengths and needs of families to identify appropriate services
With family, develop a prevention services case plan to address priority needs

20. Kate Beier, NCCD- Children’s Research Center
For More Information:
Tribal Model:
Lexy Gallant
SDM Tools:
Kate Beier, NCCD- Children’s Research Center