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Not Just Privatization: Florida's Child Welfare System and Community-Based Care (Workshop 18)
Ensuring the safety and well-being of children in the child welfare system has proven to be a long-term and complex issue. One of Florida's responses is privatization, known as the Community-Based Care (CBC) initiative. The intent of CBC is to improve the safety and well-being of children, create community ownership around child welfare issues, shift the responsibility for direct service delivery in child welfare from the Department of Children and Family Services to newly-created lead agencies, create a more integrated and comprehensive child protective service system, and more flexibly manage available resources.
Findings from year three of a multi-method evaluation of Florida's Community-Based Care (CBC) initiative across 27 counties illuminate some of the persistent administrative and systems issues involved in creating a community-based system of care for children and families dealing with abuse and neglect issues. Presenters review findings regarding programmatic outcomes pertaining to child safety, permanency, and well-being, as well as compare organizational models and expenditure data. Programmatic indicators include proportion of children exiting out-of-home care, re-entry into out-of-home care, proportion of children with recurrence of maltreatment, proportion of children returned to parents or legal guardians and custodial placement with relatives after exiting out-of-home care, and children with adoption finalized after exiting out-of-home care. Emphasis is on the unique nature of CBC implementation in Florida, including a focus on community ownership, creativity and flexibility at the local level, and lessons learned in incorporating major service system change to ensure that children are in safe and stable environments.
Mary I. Armstrong, Ph.D.
Svetlana Yampolskaya, Ph.D.
Florida Mental Health Institute
University of South Florida
13301 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33612
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