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Efforts to improve foster care placement stability
4:40:37
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Council Member Stevens inquires about the slight increase in foster care moves and ACS's efforts to improve placement stability. Commissioner Dannhauser explains the agency's approach:
- Current move rate is historically low, with about 80% of children not moving in a given year
- Implementation of the TRIP training model for all foster parents to provide trauma-informed care
- Combination of therapeutic and regular foster care programs to allow for more flexible resource allocation
- Focus on reducing unnecessary moves and providing quick support when needed
The commissioner emphasizes the importance of stability for young people in foster care and the ongoing efforts to minimize disruptions in their placements.
Althea V. Stevens
4:40:37
Why does ACS think Well I mean you kind of already talked about why you think the percentage has dropped.
4:40:48
How's ACS working to better placements for foster care youth initiated to the needs to move youth from home to home?
Jess Dannhauser
4:40:56
Yeah and this is very very important.
4:40:59
Young people need to be stable.
4:41:00
We are historically at a lower level this move from 1.3 per thousand care days to 1.4 means that a few other kids were not stable.
4:41:13
I believe the number is about eighty percent in a given year do not move.
4:41:18
We do not want kids being bounced from home to home.
4:41:22
And the work of TRIP, the TRIP training model that we have now rolled out to all foster parents.
4:41:30
It's trauma informed, making sure that they can meet the needs of young people.
4:41:34
We've allowed for, we used to have a small therapeutic program and then a larger regular program.
4:41:41
We've combined those two so that agencies can move resources around.
4:41:45
So if they need to add a therapist, a sociotherapist quickly to support the young person and the foster parent, they can do that.
4:41:52
You know these numbers are better than historically, but we don't want any time for a young person to be moving unnecessarily.