Slide presentation used during a facilitated session to support Children in Care

1. Supporting Children in Care Kootenay Boundary Chapter

2. What’s the Issue? Kootenay Boundary Chapter

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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 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 Children’s 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. Let’s 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