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Kaleidoscope Overview
- 1. WELCOME!
- 2. Tom Finnegan Executive Director, Kaleidoscope
- 3. ~6,000 ~35,000 ~3,000 “Specialized”
- 4. Department of Children & Family Services
- 8. Olivia DelGiudice, LCSW Associate Director, Kaleidoscope Therapeutic Family Foster Care
- 9. What is a foster home?
- 10. Did you know? Types of foster care: Home-of-relative Traditional Specialized
- 11. Kaleidoscope Foster Care Individual Treatment Program Adolescent Parent Program Medically Complex Program
- 15. Strengths-based
- 16. Team approach
- 18. history of abuse (physical and/or sexual)
- 22. drug and/or alcohol use
- 23. runaways
- 25. application
- 26. interview
- 27. study of the home and family members
- 29. health and driving record reviewed
- 31. Weekly home visits by staff (announced and unannounced)
- 37. Treatment/service planCompleted within 30 days of admission and is a computerized system with a strengths-based focus
- 39. Therapy
- 41. Basic life skills building
- 42. Employment- and housing-seeking assistance
- 46. To remain in that home (stability)
- 50. 27 SOC agencies across Illinois; SOC providers each cover a specific geographic area in the state.
- 51. Kaleidoscope covers 4½ areas in over 25 neighborhoods
- 53. A child who is or has experienced significant traumatic events in life
- 54. A child who has behavior or emotional problems and the child is displaying risk behaviors
- 55. The foster parent is struggling to meet the needs of the child
- 57. SOC and caseworker discuss the presenting issues to determine eligibility
- 58. If eligible, SOC admits child and schedules an initial home visit within 5 days
- 60. Foster parents usually know the child the best
- 62. Child and family team meeting occurs and strengths-based treatment plan is developed within 30 days
- 64. Identifies existing and potential strengths of the child and placement
- 66. Does the child have natural talents (e.g., musical, artistic or athletic)?
- 67. Where does the child find a sense of importance or belonging?
- 68. What skills does the child have (e.g., work, study, sports or cooking)?
- 70. May also include other providers, concerned family members or concerned persons from the community (e.g., juvenile justice or education)
- 71. Work together to develop a treatment plan for the child
- 72. Team members:
- 73. Help identify important issues of concern in the child’s life
- 75. Focuses on describing how child strengths will be used to address the needs
- 76. Establishes who is responsible for providing services and how the services will be paid for
- 77. Team Members:
- 78. Actively participate in developing the plan
- 80. SOC services focus on stabilizing the placement
- 82. SOC will work with the caseworker, child and foster family to identify ongoing community supports
- 85. They fare better in education, employment, they avoid the criminal system and are less likely to become homeless
- 87. Youth provides own consent for medical care
- 89. have graduated from high school/have a GED
- 90. have demonstrated capacity to live independently
- 91. have history/desire to be gainfully employed
- 93. Tailored services to meet individual needs
- 94. Youth is key in development of treatment plan
- 95. Child and family team meetings to review goals
- 100. Obtain a driver’s license
- 101. Food assistance
- 102. Therapy
- 104. Employment
- 106. Placement stability
- 108. TAS provides consultation/training to caseworkers, residential staff, foster parents, wards and anyone else involved in Department of Children and Family Services cases regarding the Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disabilities process.
- 113. Began in 2005
- 116. Minimum 2.5 GPA
- 118. Freshmen-Seniors
- 120. Who are they?
- 122. Etiquette training
- 123. Cultural experience
- 124. Volunteer experience
- 125. Resume workshop
Editor's Notes
- Kaleidoscope serving the “most difficult” cases, as deemed by the state: specializedKids moving from home to home learn to reject care before getting rejected; acting out and misbehaving as a defense.W/o proper care, more likely to become unemployed, homeless, addicted to drugs and incarcerated, becoming a burden on society.Economists estimate that preventing ONE vulnerable child from becoming a high school dropout, career criminal or drug abuser saves $1.7 to $2.3M in costs to society.
- Illinois allows young people to remain wards of the state up through age 21. Transitional support services mimic what many of us have growing up.
- Unconditional careIndividualized, family-centered, community-focusedOur vision, our product
- 1970s brought children back to Illinois for care – founded 1973Programs are delivered with our values as their underpinnings: unconditional care, strengths-based, family, community, diversityThe team model of service delivery – no single worker alone is assigned to a child; provides stability and continuity (i.e., if one team member leaves Kaleidoscope, other team members remain familiar to the child. A stable adult influence is paramount…
- FYF selects and matches wards of the state in 2- and 4-year colleges with employers for paid, full-time, 10-week internships.Lasting from June thru mid-August.FYF provides career development workshops and networking opportunities via employers, board members, social events.