Supporting Children In Care
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The document discusses a symposium held by the local chapter of the BCSSA to address issues supporting children in care. It notes that graduation rates and kindergarten readiness are much lower for children in care compared to the general population. The goals of the symposium were to bring together professionals supporting children in care, raise awareness of their needs, share strategies, and plan for future collaboration and integrated service delivery. The document also provides statistics on children with special needs and an overview of the CYSN framework for improving support services.
Supporting Children In Care
- 1. Supporting Children in Care Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 2. Whats the Issue? Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 3. Simple Graduation rate in BC = 79% Graduation rate of Children in Care = 20% Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 4. Whats the Issue? Graduation rate of Children in the home of a relative = 30% Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 5. Whats the Issue? Percent of children in care who are not ready for kindergarten = 50% Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 6. Whats the Issue? Do we know who are our Children in Care? Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 7. Whats the Issue? Are we doing the best we can for them? Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 8. Whats 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 Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 9. We wanted to bring together the professionals who are involved in supporting children in care: Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 10. 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 Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 11. Our goals: recognize that there will be significant staff change in the next five years and design structures that cope with the changes Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 12. District Staff School administrators Counsellors Child Care workers Social Workers Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 13. CYSN Provincial Direction A Framework for Action Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 14. 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. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 15. Prevalence Special Needs 10 15% Mental Health Issues 15% Significant Special Needs 5.65% Special Learning Disability 7% Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 16. Services: 90 programs mostly by 3 Ministries Children and Family Education Health total spending: $525 + million Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 17. Challenges: Waits, gaps and Overlaps Inconsistent Standards Complex and Disjointed Service System Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 18. Common Vision Needed: Optimal development, health, well-being and achievement for children and youth with special needs. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 19. 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. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 20. Six supporting Strategies for Action: 1. Placing Childrens and families Needs First: Functionally-based and accessible services. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 21. Six supporting Strategies for Action: 2. Supporting our People: Training, Recruitment and Retention. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 22. Six supporting Strategies for Action: 3. Ensuring Quality and Performance: Improving quality measurement and accountability. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 23. Six supporting Strategies for Action: 4. Building and Using the Evidence Base: Promoting evaluation and research. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 24. Six supporting Strategies for Action: 5. Simplifying the Pathway to Services: Providers, agencies and ministries coordinating, collaborating and integrating more. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 25. Six supporting Strategies for Action: 6. Planning Together: Instituting a province-wide integrated planning mechanism. Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 26. Now What? The problem is simple The solution is the complex piece Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 27. People with a Vision Outperform their Resources Joel Barker Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 28. It's not the haves and the have nots It's the did and did nots! Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 29. Lets be a group of doers Thank you Kootenay Boundary Chapter
- 30. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Education Kootenay Boundary Chapter