MONDAY REPORT
December 23, 2002
SPECIAL NOTE: Copyright 2002. The Monday Report is produced each week as a benefit to the member agencies of the Child Care Association. Please protect this membership benefit - DO NOT copy and distribute this report to agencies/staff that are not members of CCA. Thank you for your cooperation.
CCAI HOLIDAY SCHEDULE
Seasons Greetings!! The
staff of the Child Care Association of Illinois extends our best wishes for all
members to enjoy the holiday season. We hope whatever holiday you celebrate or
religious period you observe brings much satisfaction and comfort.
We wish you peace in 2003.
The Monday Report will
not be published on December 30 or January 6. We will return to regular
publication on January 13.
The CCAI offices will
be closed on December 24 and 25, and on December 31 and January 1.
FEDERAL
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES REVIEWS
WELFARE
REFORM REPORT FROM GAO
MORE
NEWS ON SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER APPLICATIONS:
The
federal child and family service review conducted by the federal government will
review Illinois� compliance with key federal rules and regulations. The
results could impact long term federal funding for DCFS. Since more than 70% of
foster care cases and a significant number of intact family cases are held in
the voluntary sector, there is a strong likelihood that the majority of cases
selected for review will be with our member agencies.
The
first step of the total review is for states to submit comprehensive data on the
performance of the system. Once this data is compiled, it will be used for
comparison with the cases selected for review. The second stage of the review is
an on-site review by a team including federal staff and volunteer reviewers. The
team reviews individual cases for compliance with all requirements and then
compares the evidence in the case record against what the system data shows. Do
the cases make a fair representation that the data submitted is accurate?
Part of the process will also be comprehensive interviews with
stakeholders.
Illinois
is scheduled for the on-site review in September 2003. Watch for various
training activities, meetings, special reviews and information bulletins from
DCFS and CCAI as we prepare for this important review.
Read
about the review process and see how other states have fared in the review
process on various federal web sites: www.childwelfarereview.com
and www.acf.dhhs.gov.program/cb/cwrp.
DCFS
has a federal review preparation committee. That committee will now be
co-chaired by Jim Jones, President/CEO of ChildServ. We need more voluntary
agency members to serve on this committee to help guide our sector in preparing
for the review. Please contact Marge Berglind by e-mail ([email protected])
if you are interested in serving. (MB)
On
December 10, 2002, the General Accounting Office (GAO) released the following
report:
Welfare
Reform: Job Access Program improves local service coordination, but evaluation
should be completed. GAO-03-204, December 6. Content of the report can be
accessed through the GAO website at http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-204
or http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d03204high.pdf.
Some
products now have a link to Highlights (the link ends with "high.pdf").
This one-page document gives the key findings and recommendations of a GAO
report or testimony. You can use the Highlights to decide whether you wish to
see the full report or testimony.
These and other GAO products are available from the "GAO Reports" section of GAO's Internet site, http://www.gao.gov. (MB)
A
packet of information was recently sent to all CCA member agencies and the CCA
Education Committee regarding applications for providing remedial and
after-school services for area schools. The
first deadline listed on the application was December 2, 2002.
A NEW SET OF APPLICATIONS WILL BE SOLICITED IN THE FIRST PART OF
FEBRUARY FOR THESE SERVICES, AND ISBE IS VERY INTERESTED IN ENCOURAGING
FAITH-BASED AND COMMUNITY-BASED AGENCY PARTICIPATION IN THE DELIVERY OF THESE
SERVICES. The sweeping federal
legislation, termed the No Child Left Behind Act is responsible for substantial
changes in education. All local schools that have been required to �offer choice
of enrollment to another local school� are listed on the ISBE website.
If these schools do not obtain Annual Yearly Progress after spring
testing, they will then have to purchase or provide any of the supplemental
educational services that research indicates will help the children in the
school make more significant progress. ISBE
wants any interested provider to have a plan ready for the schools that are on
the list. So, CCA members who are interested in any form of service
provision are encouraged to see if any of their local schools are on the list.
The ISBE staff person in charge of this program indicated that CCA
members could complete all of the narrative section of the application, which is
essentially program description. Then,
they should consult the website the first part of February 2003, to identify
which portions of the application have changed. (Changes are only expected in
some of the demographic information). All
of this information can be obtained as follows:
Go to ISBE website (www.isbe.net).
Scroll on left-hand side to NCLB. Click
on this, then go to right-hand side and click on �Criteria for Approval of
Supplemental Education Providers.� Also,
on the right-hand side is the �Supplemental Education Provider application.�
After reviewing those documents return to the ISBE home page.
In the center is a red box �Current News and Archives.�
Click on this and then click on the year 2002.
Go to the July 15, 2002 document and click on the list of schools
identified with the Annual Yearly Progress.
There will be four lists. The
second list is all schools that must �offer choice� outside the City of
Chicago. The fourth list is all schools that must �offer choice�
inside the City of Chicago. These
are the schools that will most likely need remedial education and social
services unless their students make the Annual Yearly Progress needed after
testing this spring. Deadlines for
the first set of applications were so tight that only 14 organizations were
selected, and most of these were large for-profit organizations like Kaplan,
Sylvan, Princeton Review, etc. ISBE
is very interested in getting more local participation.
The key staff person to contact is Cheryl Bradley (618-244-8383 and [email protected])
BRH.
One of the unresolved issues in the development of the next phase of SACWIS was how would the Medicaid requirements be integrated in the design of Phase II for the system related to assessment and treatment plans and especially related to the case notes. POS representatives had met with SACWIS project staff regarding this issue during the summer of 2002 and submitted recommendations on what information would need to be included that would meet the requirements of Medicaid and assist staff with documentation for the Medicaid Billing System and meet the requirements of SACWIS. In recent discussions with project staff for SACWIS we have been advised that none of the Medicaid information recommendations have been included in the design of Phase II at this time. Due to the many budget cuts that DCFS has had to address the past two years, the SACWIS design has been reduced in scope in many areas, with Medicaid being one of those areas. The CWAC Medicaid Workgroup will be meeting in early January to discuss the impact this will have on the operations for POS agencies. The next meeting of the CWAC Medicaid Workgroup is January 9, 2003. (JMS)
The Research Forum has released a new issue brief Domestic Violence and Welfare Policy: Research Findings That Can Inform Policies on Marriage and Child Well-Being. This report examines research on the prevalence and correlates of domestic violence among women on welfare; the effects of domestic violence on child well being; and marriage and domestic violence. It also assesses the implications for welfare policy and future research. For a copy of the full report � PDF: http://click.topica.com/maaaIq6aaUSSlbb6LSZb/. For a copy of the Executive Summary � PDF: http://click.topica.com/maaaIq6aaUSSmbb6LSZb/. (JMS)
Mark your new year�s calendar for CCAI�s Spring Membership Meeting on March 20, 2003. The location is the Marriott Hickory Ridge Conference Center, Lisle, Illinois. Hickory Ridge is located 30 minutes west of downtown Chicago, on 26 wooded acres easily accessible to both I-88 and I-55. Look in future Monday Reports for additional information. (SKA)
Jan. 6 � Best Practice/SACWIS Training Steering Committee
� LSSI Des Plaines � 10:00
Jan. 9 � Medicaid Workgroup Meeting � The Baby Fold,
Normal � 10:00
Jan. 10 � Healthy Families Illinois Policy/Advocacy
Committee � Chicago/conference call
Jan. 13 � Child Abuse Prevention Month Coordination
Meeting � Springfield/Conference Call
Jan. 14 � CCAI Policy Committee - Naperville
Jan. 15 -- Downstate Performance Based Work Group, 1-3, Springfield
Jan. 21 -- CWAC Finance and Administration Committee, Bloomington
Feb. 17-21 -- "Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training of Trainers", a Residential Child Care
Project of Cornell University, hosted by Allendale Association. 9:00 a.m.-5:00
p.m. Seating is limited. For more information regarding the training, fee, and hotel
accommodations, please contact Dave McKenna at Allendale (847) 245-6393 or
Feb. 20 -- Cook Agencies Meeting with Presiding Judge, Juvenile Court, Chicago
Feb. 20 -- CWAC
Feb. 26-March 1 -- Learning
Disabilities Association 2003 National Conference, Palmer
House
Hilton, Chicago. For information, call Learning Disabilities
Association of Illinois (708) 430-7532
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For
further information on any of the above, contact the staff member noted in
parentheses at the end of the text: MB = Marge
Berglind 312/819-1950
([email protected])
JMS
= Jan Schoening 217/528-4409,
ext. 25 BRH=
Bridget Helmholz 217/528-4409,
ext. 24 |
Sandy Armstrong
217/528-4409 ext. 22 ([email protected]) Kelly
Pantaleone 217/528-4409,
ext. 26 ([email protected]) BMO=Barb
Oldani 217/528-4409,
ext. 21 ([email protected]) |
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