Placing Agency Oversight. Describe how the Placing Agency will ensure that each Providers’ administration, management and staff will provide high quality, cost-effective care and facilities for youth and families enrolled in the RBS program. Also, include specific parties/units who will be responsible for carrying out this approach. An important difference between the way our County placing agencies have managed traditional group home care and the way they will provide oversight in our RBS System is the shift of emphasis from placement to enrollment. Our RBS Oversight Committee will monitor the overall arc of care delivered by our RBS providers from point of enrollment through any needed moves in the places where children and youth live while receiving services until a stable and permanent family living arrangement is achieved. CCTs will be primarily accountable to this body. In turn, the RBS Oversight Committee is accountable to the RBS Steering Committee. The RBS Steering and Oversight Committees will collaborate to oversee an outcome driven system of care. The expectation is that VTC/VCSS will demonstrate ongoing 6 Reference ‘Administration’ in the ‘Program Criteria’ section of the ‘Framework’ document progress in helping enrolled children, youth and families make progress toward achieving permanency, safety and well-being. While understanding that straight-line improvement is unlikely when children, youth and families have complex and enduring needs, these bodies nevertheless will use objective measures as well as the qualitative reports of the children, youth and families to track overall movement toward the identified goals of our system of care. The chief objective measure will be the results of the administration of the CAFAS at intake, every 6 mos., and exit. Quantitative reports of the youth and family‟s perception of progress and satisfaction with services will be garnered at completion by the Youth Services Survey (YSS) and the YSS-F for families. Xxxxxx will also assess client satisfaction qualitatively using the Xxxxxx Client Satisfaction Survey. In addition, the Oversight Committee will track key events marking progress including reduced ratio of residentially-based treatment to community-based treatment, reduction in out-of-state placement, reduction in hospitalizations, reduction in AWOL incidents and increased permanency as demonstrated by stable family level placement, increased pro-social behavior and more lifelong connections. The Oversight Committee will coord...
Placing Agency Oversight. Describe how the Placing Agency will ensure that each Providers’ administration, management and staff will provide high quality, cost-effective care and facilities for youth and families enrolled in the RBS program. Also, include specific parties/units who will be responsible for carrying out this approach. As detailed in 2.2 above, the Wraparound Operations Group will work closely with the Open Doors providers in their delivery of care for children enrolled and with their partners (CCL, DCFS Out of Home Care Management Division16 and the CDSS) to ensure high quality, cost-effective care. The DCFS Wraparound Quality Improvement and Training Section will provide care management and monitor the overall course of services (via ISCs) delivered by the Open Doors providers from the point of enrollment to when the child is in a stable and permanent family living arrangement and has graduated from Open Doors. The DMH Child Welfare Division‟s Residential and TBS Support Department will monitor EPSDT utilization by the Open Doors providers. The DCFS Out of Home Care Monitoring Section will monitor the group home contracts of the Open Doors providers. Lastly, the DCFS RUM unit will coordinate RMPs and initial CANS administrations. The Open Doors quality review process will generally follow the quality review process currently implemented for Wraparound with additional training for monitoring staff to accommodate the Open Doors model‟s nuances. There are four levels: First,
