2023-3-20_Family_First_Sacramento_Logic_Model.pdf

Family First Sacramento Logic Model- FY 23/24

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Program Vision: Sacramento County’s children, youth and families are safe, healthy, and able to thrive at home, in school, and in their communities through the county's commitment to valuing and supporting the needs of our diverse population.

Focus Population Served CPS: African American children 0-5 years of age and their families residing in the following zip code areas: 95815, 95821, 95823, 95828, 95838 & 95825.

Probation: Pre-adjudicated youth 13-17 years of age going through the Court process and their families (youth who have been referred to Probation but their Court cases have not yet reached a resolution).

Focus Population Needs to be Addressed by Culturally Relevant Services

• Concrete Supports: Food, Clothing, Childcare, Affordable Housing, Transportation

• Healthcare including Behavioral Health

• Community Connectedness

• Access to & awareness of services (Parenting, Domestic Violence, Behavioral Health, Early Childhood Education) when and where needed as defined by the family

• Home-based services

Services

CPS:

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Coaching/Institutional Analysis

• Childcare Capacity Building

• Funding for basic/concrete needs

• Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) Pilot & Evaluation

• Accessibility to Services with Flexibility Based Upon

Community Input in Each Zip Code, in Contracting for the Below:

o Mobile wellness units/co-location o Parent partners/advocates o Admin Costs/events/building awareness in the community o Warm Line for Black Family support specifically (or we identify existing and increase awareness in community)

Probation:

• Functional Family Therapy

• High Fidelity Wraparound

• Community Intervention Team

• Admin Costs/Training/Building Awareness with Community

Partners

Assumptions: Sacramento County believes investing in primary prevention is foundational in keeping families together, and strengthening families and communities. We built our prevention strategies with the below assumptions in mind.

CPS:

• Actively addressing structural racism and implicit bias within the child welfare system will help reduce racial/ethnic disparities.

• Waitlists to access subsidized childcare are significantly associated with an increase in child abuse and neglect investigations (Chapin Hall – Slide 33). Therefore, increasing availability of childcare providers who are diverse and offer flexible hours in our community will directly reduce child abuse and neglect investigations.

• Families of color are disproportionately affected by poverty. Economic and concrete supports are a strategy to reduce racial disproportionality in child welfare systems and improve family and child well-being (Chapin Hall). When families can meet their basic needs, they can go beyond surviving and begin thriving (Income Movement).

• When families have access to services in the community they are better able to provide for their children’s overall wellbeing.

Probation:

• Youth and families fare better when they have equitable access to services aimed at specific needs, assisting the youth with home and community stabilization.

• With the connection to services, youth and families' contact with the juvenile justice system will be limited and/or eliminated altogether.

https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CA-CWC-06.01.22-Chapin-Hall-final-deck.pdf https://www.chapinhall.org/project/a-key-connection-economic-stability-and-family-well-being/ https://www.incomemovement.org/about

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Resources CPS: State Block Grant Funding, Leverage Funding and Staff Resources, In-Kind Support.

Probation: State Block Grant Funding, Internal Staff Support, Referral Process, Supervision and Support Unit.

• Through child and family team meetings, we will achieve better outcomes for our youth and families by focusing on targeted interventions, case management, engagement, and case planning.

• Youth and families will thrive at home and in their communities if systems and community partners are included along the continuum of interventions.

• Youth and families will have better outcomes when they function as part of a treatment team and their voices and concerns are integrated within services.

TERTIARY

Outcomes for Focus Population

FFPS Funded Strategy

Indicators/Measurement

Decreased entries/ re-entries into foster care

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Coaching/Institutional Analysis for CPS

• Funding for basic/concrete needs

• Increase accessibility to services with flexibility based on community input in each zip code, in contracting for the below:

o Mobile wellness units/co-location o Parent partners/advocates o Admin Costs/events/building awareness in the community o Warm Line for Black Family support specifically (or we identify existing and increase awareness in community)

• Federal measures and internal data related to demographic entry rates and re-entry into foster care

Decreased youth on probation

• Functional Family Therapy

• High Fidelity Wraparound

• Community Intervention Team

• Admin Costs/Training/Building awareness with community partners

• Internal data related to # of youth’s cases progressing to adjudication before and after

SECONDARY

Outcomes for Focus

Indicators/Measurement

Decreased rate of substantiated referrals to Child Welfare

• GBI Pilot & Evaluation

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Coaching/Institutional Analysis for CPS

• Funding for basic/concrete needs

• Increase accessibility to services with flexibility based on community input in each zip code, in contracting for the below:

o Mobile wellness units/co-location o Parent partners/advocates o Admin costs/Events/Building awareness in the community o Warm Line for Black Family support specifically (or we identify existing and increase awareness in community)

• Internal data related to substantiated referrals before and after for the focus population

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Prevent further involvement with the juvenile justice system

• Functional Family Therapy

• High Fidelity Wraparound

• Community Intervention Team

• Admin Costs/Training/Building awareness with community partners

• Internal data related to # of youth’s cases progressing to adjudication before and after

PRIMARY

Outcomes for Focus

Indicators

Decreased referrals (new investigations) to Child Welfare

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Coaching/Institutional Analysis for CPS

• Updated mandated reporter training

• GBI Pilot & Evaluation

• Funding for basic/concrete needs

• Increase accessibility to services with flexibility based on community input in each zip code, in contracting for the below:

o Mobile wellness units/co-location o Parent partners/advocates o Admin costs/Events/Building awareness in the community o Warm Line for Black Family support specifically (or we identify existing and increase awareness in community)

• Internal data related to # of new referrals opened by hotline baseline # and after

Increased # of parents that have access to affordable, quality childcare (0-2 age range in general)

• Childcare capacity building o Consider funding to increase providers/capacity with flexible childcare

• Baseline and after – cost for family based and center based and # of spots available

• Potential future partner data

Reduction in disproportionality and disparity in investigations and removals

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Coaching/Institutional Analysis for CPS to help address:

o How to support Supervisors/ Program Managers/ Division Managers to have discussions regarding individual bias, systemic racism in a safe space o Inquiry skills and ability to address possible biases during consultation spaces where decisions are made o Review policies with a lens of how they support institutional racism and make updates to intentionally create equity for families disproportionately represented in the Child Welfare system o Determine how to support staff at all levels to create/participate in discussions related to bias/racism in a safe space/safe way (how to lessen defenses) o Consider what a DEI team to support education across programs could look like

• Updated mandated reporter training

• Internal CPS data (decision points: referrals, investigations, substantiations, open cases (IS & Court), removals, etc.)

• TBD with partner

• Mandated Reporter referral data

(ethnicity of child) – baseline and after