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Project
Components
- Regional
Access Coordinators to provide information and referral services,
and facilitate the movement of children through the child welfare
system. One telephone call to a RAC is the equivalent of separate
referrals to all ten Alliance partners and network members.
- Child
and Family Special Case Team to problem-solve challenging
cases.
- Alliance
Website that will make available current and relevant child
welfare information including "real time" data on service
and placement availability.
- Comprehensive
Resource Database of providers and services available across
the state accessible via the web site.
- Service
Availability Report, a process for the collection and distribution
of current data on open beds in family foster care, residential
facilities, shelter care, and adoption homes across the state.
- Family
Foster Care Enhancement which is a foster care awareness and
recruitment campaign.
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Goals
of the C.A.R.E. Project
- To
locate resources more quickly and efficiently.
- To
overcome barriers and challenges to service access.
- To
secure services/placements that most appropriately
meet the needs of the child.
- To
reduce the occurrence of inappropriate placements
and multiple placements.
- To
increase community-based service capacity and utilization,
specifically family foster care.
- To
reduce out-of-state placements for children.
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