HOPES III Community Meeting Webinar:

1. HOPES III Community Meeting Webinar: March 2016

2. Meeting Agenda Welcome What does the Prevention and Early Intervention division do? HOPES Background Partnership with the Texas Home Visitation Program HOPES Vision Next Steps Conclusion

3. What does the Prevention and Early Intervention division do?

4. PEI’s Function and Purpose Texas Family Code Sec. 265.002. PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES DIVISION. "Prevention and early intervention services" means: programs intended to provide early intervention or prevent at-risk behaviors that lead to child abuse, delinquency, running away, truancy, and dropping out of school.

5. PEI’s Function and Purpose Texas Family Code Sec. 265.002, continued The division shall be called the prevention and early intervention services division and shall have the following duties: to plan, develop, and administer a comprehensive and unified delivery system of prevention and early intervention services to children and their families in at-risk situations; (2) to improve the responsiveness of services for at-risk children and their families by facilitating greater coordination and flexibility in the use of funds by state and local service providers; (3) to provide greater accountability for prevention and early intervention services in order to demonstrate the impact or public benefit of a program by adopting outcome measures; and (4) to assist local communities in the coordination and development of prevention and early intervention services in order to maximize federal, state, and local resources.

6. Protective Factors Reduce Risk and Promote Well-Being of Children and Families • Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention services focuses on strengthening the following six protective factors in a family: • Nurturing and Attachment • Knowledge of Child Development • Parental Resilience • Social Connections • Concrete Supports • Social and Emotional Competence of the Child • For more information on the validated Protective Factors Survey, see: http://friendsnrc.org/protective-factors-survey

7. HOPES: Background

8. Background: Rider 30-Funding for Other “At-Risk” Prevention Programs • The 83rd Legislature included $19 million in increased funding for other at-risk prevention programs for child abuse and neglect prevention in accordance with a comprehensive plan that includes: • Only programs that are evidence-based or promising practices. • Community-based programs located throughout the state. • Performance measures that gauge program effectiveness. • Programs with a focus on children ages 0-17. • Public private collaboration that enhances state resources to reach more children, youth, and families.

9. Early Stakeholder involvement • In the Spring of 2013, DFPS convened a stakeholder workgroup to develop the comprehensive plan utilizing the best strategies for meeting the legislated requirements of the other at-risk prevention services. • These stakeholders advised that the best use of limited dollars would be to target: • the most at-risk areas of the state; and • families with children ages 0-5.

10. HOPES Begins • From the Stakeholder input, PEI created Project HOPES: Healthy Outcomes through Prevention and Early Support. • The goal of Project HOPES is to establish flexible, community-based child abuse and neglect prevention programs in select communities targeting families of children ages 0-5 who are at-risk for abuse and neglect. • Counties were ranked based on: • Child abuse and neglect fatalities, • Child poverty, • Substance Abuse convictions and treatment facility admissions, • Domestic violence convictions, and • Teen Pregnancy rates.

11. Communities are Key to Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention • The HOPES program is based on the Commissioner’s belief that: • Child abuse and neglect is a community problem that impacts everyone • Child abuse and neglect is a vicious cycle that cannot be ‘fixed’ by the CPS system • Child abuse and neglect requires a community solution • Children and families need ongoing community support in order to be successful.

12. Current HOPES I Programs

13. Current HOPES II Programs

14. Program Examples from HOPES I Sites Site A Site B Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services Fatherhood Component Saturday Activities for Families with Young Children Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Community Conference Community Collaboration • Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services • Case Management • Domestic Violence Component • Fatherhood Component • Counseling • Basic Needs Support • Community Collaboration

15. Program Examples from HOPES II Sites Site A Site B Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services Family Connections Nurturing Parenting Program SEEK Model Centering Pregnancy Community Collaboration • Evidence-Based Home Visiting Services • Period of PURPLE Crying • Avance Parent-Child • Triple P • Parent Navigator • Community Collaboration

16. Partnership with Texas Home Visitation Program

17. Texas Home Visiting Program • Fund and support communities across the state to implement programs and build/enhance early childhood systems • Partners with Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngers (HIPPY), Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP), and Parents as Teachers (PAT) to implement program

18. Coalitions Communities are working toward the goal of developing or working with existing local coalitions that address early childhood and family support issues.

19. Texas Home Visiting Sites

20. HOPES: Vision

21. Vision: HOPES in Your Community The benefit of HOPESwill be to reduce the abuse and neglect of children by empowering local communities to build effective prevention services and coalitions through financial resources, data-driven procurement, and offering the flexibility to choose the evidence-based programs that meet the needs of the local community. DFPS wants to fund what you would build in your community to prevent the child abuse and neglect of young children.

22. HOPES Round III: Potential Communities PEI will fund up to 8 contracts in the following 16 counties, with no more than one proposal funded per county.

23. ACES as a Foundation and Call to Arms

24. Essentials for Childhood

25. Safe, Stable, and Nurturing Relationships

26. HOPES: Vision • DFPS is interested in: • Service providers who have an established history of providing effective services in the target area • An approach that focuses on primaryand secondary prevention strategies but can incorporate tertiary prevention strategies; • Community level collaborations (use existing groups where possible) that is aimed to provide systems of care for families of young children; • Data-driven strategic planning; • Outcome-based evaluation; • Leveraging private funding; and • Thoughtful plans for sustainability.

27. HOPES: Vision • An example of the variety of ideas to consider: • Piloting an “ACES” informed primary care clinic. • Bringing evidence-based parent education to primary care settings. Providing a wrap-around set of services to the various “homes” for young children and their families: health care, child care, home-visitation. • Partnering with higher-education to further the field of evidence in strengthening families through research and evaluation. • Partnering with Children’s hospitals and birthing hospitals to change community norms around healthy parenting. • Increasing the capacity for home-visitation if needed. • Building a variety of programs to a well informed assessment and service-planning system of family support. • Participating in a multi-layered public-health model to support safe, stable, and nurturing relationships, such as Triple P.

28. Tools and Resources: Developing Community Prevention Strategies • Developed by The Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI) at the University of Texas at Austin • Guide to Conducting Community Needs Assessments • Guide to Selecting an Evidence-Based Intervention • Guide to Adapting an Evidence-Based Intervention • www.Hopesevaluation.org • Pathway to the Prevention of Child Abuse and neglect • http://www.childsworld.ca.gov/res/pdf/Pathway.pdf

29. HOPES: Vision • Timeline: • RFP posted in early April 2016 • Contracts awarded and services beginning in September 2016 • Contract Structure • DFPS anticipates a cost-reimbursement financing structure. • Award Selection • DFPS will award contracts in up to 8 of the eligible counties with no more than one award in any one county

30. HOPES What questions can we answer?

31. HOPES http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/prevention_and_early_intervention/