Supporting Children In Care

Slide 1: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Supporting Children in Care

Slide 2: Kootenay Boundary Chapter What’s the Issue?

Slide 3: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Simple Graduation rate in BC = 79% Graduation rate of Children in Care = 20%

Slide 4: Kootenay Boundary Chapter What’s the Issue? Graduation rate of Children in the home of a relative = 30%

Slide 5: Kootenay Boundary Chapter What’s the Issue? Percent of children in care who are not ready for kindergarten = 50%

Slide 6: Kootenay Boundary Chapter What’s the Issue? Do we know who are our Children in Care?

Slide 7: Kootenay Boundary Chapter What’s the Issue? Are we doing the best we can for them?

Slide 8: Kootenay Boundary Chapter What’s up today? The local chapter of the BCSSA applied for and received a grant to hold a symposium on the Topic of Children in Care

Slide 9: Kootenay Boundary Chapter We wanted to bring together the professionals who are involved in supporting children in care:

Slide 10: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Our goals: provide a forum for regional dialogue raise awareness of the needs of children in care enhance communications between all parties share successful strategies set the stage for followup

Slide 11: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Our goals: recognize that there will be significant staff change in the next five years and design structures that cope with the changes

Slide 12: Kootenay Boundary Chapter District Staff School administrators Counsellors Child Care workers Social Workers

Slide 13: Kootenay Boundary Chapter CYSN Provincial Direction A Framework for Action

Slide 14: Kootenay Boundary Chapter CYSN: Children and youth between birth and 19 who required additional educational, medical/health and social/environmental support, beyond that required by children in general, to enhance or improve their health, development, quality of life, and community integration.

Slide 15: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Prevalence Special Needs 10 – 15% Mental Health Issues 15% Significant Special Needs 5.65% Special Learning Disability 7%

Slide 16: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Services: 90 programs mostly by 3 Ministries Children and Family Education Health total spending: $525 + million

Slide 17: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Challenges: Waits, gaps and Overlaps Inconsistent Standards Complex and Disjointed Service System

Slide 18: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Common Vision Needed: Optimal development, health, well- being and achievement for children and youth with special needs.

Slide 19: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Common Mission Needed: To promote and deliver accessible, quality intervention and support services for children and youth with special needs and their families through an integrated service delivery model.

Slide 20: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Six supporting Strategies for Action: 1. Placing Children’s and families’ Needs First: Functionally-based and accessible services.

Slide 21: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Six supporting Strategies for Action: 2. Supporting our People: Training, Recruitment and Retention.

Slide 22: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Six supporting Strategies for Action: 3. Ensuring Quality and Performance: Improving quality measurement and accountability.

Slide 23: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Six supporting Strategies for Action: 4. Building and Using the Evidence Base: Promoting evaluation and research.

Slide 24: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Six supporting Strategies for Action: 5. Simplifying the Pathway to Services: Providers, agencies and ministries coordinating, collaborating and integrating more.

Slide 25: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Six supporting Strategies for Action: 6. Planning Together: Instituting a province-wide integrated planning mechanism.

Slide 26: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Now What? The problem is simple The solution is the complex piece

Slide 27: Kootenay Boundary Chapter People with a Vision Outperform their Resources Joel Barker

Slide 28: Kootenay Boundary Chapter It's not the haves and the have nots It's the did and did nots!

Slide 29: Kootenay Boundary Chapter Let’s be a group of doers Thank you

Slide 30: Kootenay Boundary Chapter We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Education