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New Publication: CFPIC Retrospective

NEW REPORT RELEASED: Shared Learnings from California's Collaborative to Transform Independent Living Programs and Practices
This report, based on the insights and innovations of nine county teams in California, offers a new conceptual model for supporting youth in and transitioning from foster care.
Highlighting Youth-Adult Partnerships and a 360° approach, youth, caregivers, child welfare agencies and their community partners worked together in creating the practice, policy and data strategies brought together in the report. In youth's words, this hands-on approach "connects us in real ways to all the things we need in life through the people we have relationships with."
Visit http://www.co-invest.org/resources/360-ILP-Report-REV11-11-FINAL.pdf to view or download the report.
This report and the Collaborative for ILP Transformation were made possible by the leadership and support of the California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership, with day-to-day coordination and support provided by Child and Family Policy Institute of California and New Ways to Work. Thank you to all the youth, caregivers, county and community partners whose passion and creativity helped steer the road toward transformation and youth-adult partnerships.
California Disproportionality Project Final Report Now Available:
From 2008-2010, the Child and Family Policy Institute led a partnership between Casey Family Programs, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Stuart Foundation, and the California Department of Social Services. This partnership supported 14 county-level teams and a state-level team in California to intensively address the issues of disproportionality and disparities in outcomes for African American and American Indian children and families involved with the child welfare system. This final report presents promising practices at the direct service level, successful strategies for agencies doing race and culture focused work, and lessons that were learned from these 15 teams and the project broadly.
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CalWORKs Children with Disabled Parents on SSI,
A CFPIC Policy Brief and Report based on telephone
and in-person interviews with 60 SSI parents raising children with CalWORKs aid in San Francisco, examine the situation
of the parents in these cases as well as the wellbeing of their children. This unique study yields findings on
parents' health and mental health limitation, availability of practical and social support to families, hunger and other
hardships, children's physical and behavioral health, and services for children. Recommendations address strategies
to meet children's needs and strengthen families through SSI advocacy and family support, subsidized housing, mental
health services for parents, early childhood education, and support for successful parenting.
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The Policy Brief and Report are the latest documents from CFPIC's CalWORKs Child-Only Study, initiated in 2006 to
understand the situation of individuals on CalWORKs cases that include no aided adult - so-called child-only cases.
For more information, see our self-sufficiency page
TANF Child-only Case Characteristics, Dynamics, and Context: CFPIC is currently collaborating on a multi-state
research project that uses administrative data, a review of current state and local policies, key informant interviews, and a
national survey of state TANF administrators. The project is designed to yield descriptive statistics on child-only cases, document
change in caseload size over time, research the dynamics of case entry and exit, and provide context for understanding the administrative
data findings. The TANF administrator survey will yield a broad assessment of whether and how the states are addressing child-only cases,
feel the need to do so, or otherwise anticipate program or policy changes - or challenges - in this area. Results, anticipated in
spring 2012, are expected to support program and policy considerations at local, state, and national levels. Project funding is provided
by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, one of the project
research sites.
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