Support Center for Child Advocates

1. Support Center for Child Advocates Long-Range Plan 2008 to 2012 Board Retreat January 12, 2008

2. Long-Range Plan Contents 1. Section 1: Agenda and Opening Expectations for Long-Range Plan (2008 to 2012) and ‘Good to Great’ Framework Objectives for Retreat 2. Long Range Plan 2000 vs. 2007 - Status 3. Brutal Facts of the External Environment 4. SCCA Hedgehog and Brutal Facts of Direct Representation 5. Brutal Facts of SCCA Policy Work 6. Brutal Facts of SCCA Resource Engine 7. Summary of Recommendations and Implications

3. Len Bernstein Frank Cervone Margie Gualtieri Mary Ann Hearn Chris Kenty Paul Kupferschmidt Beth Reeves Jodi Schatz Cassie Solomon Mark Stewart Diane Sullivan Tina Wright The Team

4. Expectations for Long-Range Plan • Develop plan that is realistic and operational • Ensure Plan has Strategies, Objectives, Measures, Tactics with Milestones and Timing • Review the Plan regularly, e.g., milestones reported on by SCCA Directors and Board

5. The Good to Great Framework • Hedgehog • Brutal Facts • Resource Engine • Right People on the Bus

6. Good To Great studied the characteristics of companies that were able to DRAMATICALLY improve their performance. What did they have in common? Good-to-Great Cases Inflection Point What principles explain the difference? Good, not Great Good, not Great Comparison Cases Matched-Pair Selection (Comparable cases at the moment of inflection)

7. What is a “hedgehog?” • The essence of the “hedgehog concept” is a deep understanding of three things: • What are you deeply passionate about? • What can you be the best in the world at? • What best drives your economic or resource engine? A resource engine has three components: time, money and brand

8. Disciplined Thought: Why confront the brutal facts? • Confront the brutal facts: The Stockdale Paradox. Retain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. • This process relies heavily on data to learn what is working for SCCA now and what needs to happen next.

9. What do we mean by great results? • It doesn’t really matter whether you can quantify your results. What matters is that you rigorously assemble evidence—quantitative or qualitative—to track your progress. • One outcome of this process is a set of metrics that SCCA can use to measure progress against the plan. Hold yourself accountable for making progress in outputs, even if those outputs defy easy measurement.

10. The Good to Great Framework The critical distinction is not between business and the social (sectors) but between great and good. We need to reject the naïve imposition of the “language of business” on the social sectors, and instead jointly embrace a language of greatness. — Jim Collins

11. Strategy Implementation Years 3-52011-2013 • Build Capacity • Years 1-2 • Build SCCA capacity • Infrastructure • Board structure • HR Practices • Marketing and visibility Devote planning years one and two (FY2009 and FY2010) to institutional capacity building

12. 2000 Plan vs. 2007 Status

13. 2000 Strategies Expand the number of children it serves (630) to make maximum use of its experience and skills in Philadelphia. Hire an Associate Director to strengthen its internal organizational and focus on management issues. Expand its activities in areas other than direct services to client children. 2007 Status Record high of 796 in 2007 First Associate Director recruited and hired resulting in resolution of many issues Created Intake Attorney/Volunteer Coordinator position resulting in significant training accomplishments; it is critical to the hedgehog and has not become a revenue generators as envisioned. 2000 vs. 2007 Status

14. 2000 Strategies 4. Subsequent to the development of the internal structure of the organization, make SCCA skills and experience available to interested outside parties, particularly insofar as they can be generalized and applied to child welfare systems outside of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. 5. Develop a strategy to make SCCA specific role better known in the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania legal communities and the community at large. 2007 Status Executive Director and Managing Attorney participated in activities in the ABA and consulted on the development of programs in three cities and established organization as leaders. As was intended in the plan, the SCCA is well-known in the community. Executive Director and staff members were consistently sought for consultation and publications. 2000 vs. 2007 Status

15. 2000 Strategies 6. Pursue financial support from local and national funders to support both the increase in SCCA representation of children as well as its expansion into training and consultation. 2007 Status Federal VOCA funding has decreased by 30% over the plan period. Agency revenue rose from $840K in 2000 to $1.78m in 2007. The costs of representing one child increased from approximately $1,670 in 2000 to $2,400 in 2007. 2000 vs. 2007 Status

16. Overview of the Environment

17. Risk Factors in Child Well-Being Brutal Facts of the Environment

18. Key Risk-Factors to a Child’s Well-Being • Living in poverty • Living in a single-parent household • Being a high school dropout • Having difficulty speaking English • Living in a high-poverty neighborhood www.aecf.org

19. How Pennsylvania Measures Up • 14.7% of children live in poverty • 23% of children live in single-parent households • 17.1% of 16-19 year olds are high school dropouts • 2.9% have difficulty speaking English • 15.3% live in high-poverty neighborhoods www.aecf.org

20. How Philadelphia Measures Up • 28.5% of Philadelphia’s children live in poverty • 25.9% high school drop out rate • 6,728 children are in dependency placements; 1,797 are in delinquency placements www.philasafesound.org

21. Brutal Facts of Children & Crime in Philadelphia • 4,433 children and young adults were victims of crime; ¾ of these crimes were violent (rape, homicide, assault, robbery) • In 2005, there were 920 gunshot victims between the ages of 7-24 • In 2005, the number of assaults in public schools went up for the eighth straight year • 2,258 youths were arrested for drug related offenses www.philasafesound.org

22. Education Brutal Facts of the Environment

23. Education in Pennsylvania • 31% of fourth graders score below basic reading level (ranked 14th of the 50 states) • 23% of eight graders score below basic reading level (23/50) • 46% of children live in homes without internet access (52% nationally) • 5% of teens are high school drop outs (8% nationally) www.aecf.org

24. High School Drop Out in Phila. • 50% achieve on-time graduation 2000-05 • 40% who do not transfer will drop out • 8,000 middle & high school students drop out • 5,000 attend less than 50% • 30,000 youth out-of-school each day (3 of 8) • 68% of pregnant girls dropped out • More likely early in high school www.pyninc.org

25. Education: Risks for Children Charged as Delinquents • Experience unaddressed health, mental health, and learning problems • Suspended or expelled even if charges are dismissed • Not permitted to return or re-enroll in home school • Re-arrested if not in school • Do not receive adequate education while incarcerated www.pewreportfostercare.org

26. Hazard of Drop-Out www.pyninc.org

27. Agency Youth www.pyninc.org

28. Immigration and Children Brutal Facts of the Environment

29. Immigration in Pennsylvania • 4.1% of Pennsylvania’s population is foreign born • Children of immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the child population nationwide www.futureofchildren.org

30. Children of Immigrants • More likely to be experience at least one of five key risk factors • 54% live in families with incomes of less than twice federal poverty level • Less likely to receive food stamps, cash welfare, housing assistance • Only 62% of 19 year olds with parents of South and Central American descent have graduated high school • Nationwide, 26% live in linguistically isolated households www.urban.org www.futureofchildren.org

31. Foster Care & Juvenile Justice Brutal Facts of the Environment

32. Foster Care • In 2003, 523,062 children in America were living in foster care • 21,768 of Pennsylvania’s children were living in foster care • Fifth highest number nationwide! • Foster children have to move to an average of three different placements during their time in the system www.pewreportfostercare.org

33. Foster Care in Pennsylvania Compared with national average: • 7.5/1000 children are in foster care (v. 7.2) • 0.35% are maltreated in foster care (v. 0.49%) • 23.5% re-enter foster care (v. 11.40%) • 70.1% are reunited with their parent or caregiver within 12 months (v. 69.12%) • 16.8% are adopted within 12 months (v. 21.08%) www.firststar.org

34. Racial Inequity and Foster Care • Children in foster care are disproportionately children of color; 33% of nationwide population, but 55% of children in foster care system www.cwla.org • Children of color are more likely to stay in foster care longer and leave at a slower rate; 61% of children waiting to be adopted are children of color • Far less likely to reunite with their families www.pewreportfostercare.org

35. Mental Disability and Foster Care • 30-40% of children in the foster care system should receive special education • Because of frequent moves these needs often go unmet or unidentified because special education depends on careful tracking and parental involvement to work successfully Smith, JM. “Foster Care Children with Disabilities” Journal of Health and Social Policy: 2002

36. Challenges for Children in Foster Care: Emotional • Most do not know whether they will rejoin their families or become part of a new, permanent family • Some blame themselves because they do not understand why they were removed from their birthparents • As adults, they are more likely to experience homelessness, unemployment, and other problems www.pewreportfostercare.org

37. Challenges for Children in Foster Care: Education • Numerous school placements by age 18 • Loss of academic progress with each move • Higher rates of grade retention • Lower scores on standardized tests • Higher absenteeism, tardiness, truancy, and dropout rates • 2x as likely to drop out • High rates of out of school suspension leading to increased juvenile detention www.pewreportfostercare.org

38. Profile of Children after One Year in Foster Care • 45% African-American; 31% white; 17% Hispanic; 7% other • Neglect was primary reason (60%) for placement; 41% had experienced more than one of the four main categories of maltreatment: physical abuse, sexual abuse, failure to supervise, failure to provide • Average age of children: In traditional foster care: 6; In kinship care: 7; in group care: 10 www.ndacan.cornell.edu

39. Kinship Care Brutal Facts of the Environment

40. Kinship Care • In Pennsylvania, kinship care is defined as a child living with “someone related in the first, second, or third degree to the parent or stepparent of that child who may be related through blood or marriage and who is at least 21 years of age” • 16.6% of PA’s children live in formal or informal kinship care www.casey.org

41. Kinship Care is a Rising Trend • Number of available foster care placements has not kept apace of the rise in children needing out of home placements • Child welfare agencies taking a more positive view of kinship care • Federal and state court rulings recognizing the right of relatives to act as foster parents and be financially compensated accordingly www.casey.org

42. Characteristics of Kinship-Care Givers • Most caregivers are older than 60 and unmarried; majority are grandparents • 2/5 have incomes below the poverty level • Most take on responsibility during a crisis period • Encounter serious financial difficulties because of need for housing, medical services, schooling etc. www.casey.org

43. Characteristics of Children living in Kinship Care: Emotional • Tend to move fewer times than others in out-of-home placements; Have more contact with siblings and birth parents; Have higher self-esteem • However, also tend to have more intense and higher rates of emotional and behavioral problems than the general child population • Higher rate of intra-uterine drug and alcohol exposure • Lack access to medical and emotional health care www.casey.org

44. Children with Disabilities Brutal Facts of the Environment

45. Children with Disabilities • 4.6% of non-institutionalized children in Pennsylvania have one disability • 3.7% of these children have a mental disability • 1.1% of Pennsylvania’s children have more than one disability www.aecf.org

46. Risks for Children with Disabilities • More likely to suffer sexual, physical, emotional abuse and physical neglect • Children with a disability are 3.4 times more likely to suffer maltreatment at home • Runaways are disproportionately likely to have a mental disability • 90% of youth who commit suicide have at least one major psychiatric disorder Sullivan, P.M. Knutson, J.F. “The Prevalence of Disabilities and Maltreatment Among Runaway Children” Child Abuse and Neglect: 2000.

47. Aging-Out Youth Brutal Facts of the Environment

48. Youth Aging Out of Foster Care • Often do not have adequate education to successfully transition • Finding housing and paying for healthcare are particularly problematic www.jlc.org

49. Environmental Factors affecting SCCA Delivery of Service • Demographic Changes • Nationalities/Race • Religious Beliefs • Languages • Increase in Single Parent Households • Medical Issues • Increase in Diseases/Conditions, e.g., HIV, STDs, Diabetes • Legal Issues • Sexual Orientation – Adoption, Gay/Lesbian Foster Care • Immigration