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Result 2. All children in Tom Green County are safe and 2 more... less...

Result - Children are safe

Result 2. All Children in Tom Green County are Safe

Indicator 2.1. Rate of confirmed victims of child abuse and neglect per 1000 children

Current Value

7.15

2021

Definition

Line Bar Comparison

Story Behind the Curve

What factors might be causing child abuse and neglect to occur?

  • Spike in unemployment/weak economy
    • Oil industry
  • COVID
    • General uncertainty
    • Spike in unemployment
    • Increased isolation
    • No escape from abusers/ lack of protective network
    • Rise in domestic violence
  • Divorce season 
  • Community resources were funneled through the schools now schools are not accessible
  • Birth timing - first and subsequent
  • Generational habit of abuse
  • Substance abuse / mental health needs
  • Age- from very young parents to grandparents raising grandkids
  • Domestic violence
  • Lack of education around child-rearing

What factors might be preventing child abuse and neglect from occurring?

  • Extended family and community support
  • Small community prides itself on providing communal resources
  • Schools and churches being educated on how to help
  • You can be anywhere in 10 mins or less
  • Healthy economy
  • Access to living-wage employment
  • Parental education level
  • Still keeping an eye on children in creative ways like FBSS virtual visits
  • Access to quality child care
  • Lockdown not as long as other places
  • Job training
  • Access to health (physical, mental, sub abuse) services
  • Teachers asking children how they are feeling. Repeated reporting of doing poorly by children will result in schools dispatching someone to check on the child
  • High level of learning continued
  • Cultural diversity training to help offer tailored services based on the family and their culture

Partners

  • CFWBI partners
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • City or County Government
  • Domestic violence partners
  • Faith-based partners
  • Financial education partners
  • Health department
  • Healthcare industry/providers
  • Parents and families
  • San Angelo ISD
  • Substance abuse treatment partners
  • Workforce development partners

Solutions

Evidence-based practices

  • Home builders
  • Family enrichment services CAC
  • PCIT
  • Nurse Family Partnership
  • For Kids Sake for divorce Season
  • Parent Mentor program; expand the program
  • Parents as Teachers
  • Literacy Programs
  • Financial Education
  • ADACCV EBP Curriculum

Promises practices

  • Training church staff, youth leaders, and school counselors
  • Other home visiting programs
  • Mentorship programs

 

Low-Cost/No-Cost Solutions

  • Affordable Housing
  • ADACCV
  • Budgeting
  • Faith-Based
  • Workforce Solutions

 

 

Off the wall ideas

  • Webinar workshops, dance parties
  • Private and close FB groups with families that are already in the programs 
  • Educate on “Divorce Season”
  • Reporting info to mailman/delivery drivers/bus drivers/cross guards
  • Educate businesses to understand their role and how it plays into the overall issue
  • Make the internet a public utility and therefore a universal service
  • Employer education – risk-sharing insurance for employee with a criminal history

Strategies

CFWBI partners brainstormed on solutions based on the factor analysis of disaggregated data on the rate of child abuse and neglect in Tom Green County. Those solutions were crystallized into nine strategies, recognizing that a strategy is a set of coordinated actions with a reasonable chance of improving a result or indicator. To determine which strategies to take action on, the partners ranked those nine strategies based on four criteria: leverage, feasibility, specificity, and value. The three strategies below were prioritized by scoring highest across the four criteria.

 

1. Expand the reach of Home Visiting programs that promote increased resiliency and connectivity amongst parents and families (Partners have decided to focus on this strategy first) 

2. Strengthen cultural competency in parenting education (curriculum, trainers, etc.)

3. Reduce the stigma associated with families accessing services

The strategies that didn’t score as high on leverage, feasibility, specificity and value include:

  1. Challenge faith-based partners to expand their service models by training church staff, youth leaders, and school counselors to identify risk factors for child abuse and neglect and how to connect families to necessary supports
  2. Promote increased understanding of scenarios that bring heightened risk for abuse and neglect, such as “divorce season”
  3. Create peer networking opportunities through virtual meeting spaces
  4. Educate businesses to understand their role and how it plays into overall issue
  5. Empower community members who interact with families to know how to report what they see – e.g., mailman, delivery drivers, bus drivers, crossing guards
  6. Make the internet a public utility and therefore a universal service

 

 

Action Steps for Strategy 1

Strategy: Strengthen cultural competency in parenting education (curriculum, trainers, etc.)

Group members: Mariam Lowe, Jennifer Flores, Cathy Love, Isaac Lopez

Action/Task

Tasked To

Due

Notes

Identify who the partners are that provide Parenting Education services in Tom Green County

CAC

 On going

 

Deepen (or establish) relationships with Parenting Education partners in Tom Green County

All coalition

On going 

 

Help Parenting Education partners in Tom Green County to see themselves as part of a collectiveness shaping parent awareness and understanding

 All coalition

On going 

 

Present disaggregated data and Turn the Curve thinking to Parenting Education partners around child abuse and neglect, so they understand why cultural competency is so important in reaching Latino families

 All coalition

On going 

 Present data every quarter

Support Parenting Education partners in Tom Green County to determine a base level for what cultural competency means in the context of delivering education services to Latino families

 All Coalition

 03/15/21 with yearly refreshers

Coalition can bring in someone to present to the group on tips, suggestion, best practices. Maybe there is someone in ASU (social work, education, language departments. Cultural competency experts) or Region 15 (ESL team) that could give a small presentation.  

Engage each organization or program to share/explain what appropriately implemented cultural competency looks like in their service delivery

All coalition 

04/30/21 - ongoing 

 In each meeting, a few agencies can explain what their agency is doing for cultural competency. The rest of the coalition can also provide feedback.

Engage each organization or program delivering Parenting Education in Tom Green County understands and explains the difference between the standard for cultural competency with their service and the reality of how service is being delivered

All coalition 

04/30/21 - ongoing 

 In each meeting, a few agencies can explain what their agency is their ideal for cultural competency at their agency and the barriers.

Each organization or program delivering Parenting Education in Tom Green County describes the actions they are taking to improve cultural competency

All coalition 

04/30/21 - ongoing 

 In each meeting, a few agencies can explain what their agency is doing for cultural competency. The rest of the coalition can also provide feedback.

Each organization of program delivering Parenting Education in Tom Green County develops and implement a clear plan to outreach to Latino families

All coalition 

04/30/21 

 

From a community impact perspective, the coalition articulates and explains what role and actions it is taking to support the efforts of individual organizations or programs in improving cultural competency

 All coalition

04/30/21 

 

Each organization or program delivering Parenting Education in Tom Green County explains what difference the improvement in cultural competency is creating for clients of their services. Is the retention rate improving? Are there measurable increases in knowledge and skills? Is recidivism declining?

All the coalition 

11/30/21 

 

Action Steps for Strategy 2

Strategy: Expand reach of Home Visiting programs to promote increased resiliency and connectivity amongst parents and families

Group Members: Katie Appleton, Belinda Braly, Paula Gomez, Tash Horner, Holly Lopez, Matt Schwarz

 

Action/Task

Tasked To

Due

Notes

Develop a list of possible/current home visiting programs

 

 

 

  • 1st email to the coalition

 

 

 

  • 2nd email to contacts

 

 

 

Compile data what/how often /who /area

 

 

 

Capacity building among agencies already delivering a home visiting program

 

 

 

Action Steps for Strategy 3

Strategy 3: Reduce the stigma of accessing help, resources, or services

Group Members: Sierra Mullan, Norma Lee, Karen Green, Y.D. Garcia, Bernie Coffee, Tony Rasteter

 

Action/Task

Tasked To

Due

Notes

Community Education through a series of Town Hall Meetings

 

 

CFWBI Goes to the people (Common places such as Northside Rec., YMCA, Schools etc)

Contact HeadStart, WIC, 2-11, Family Shelter, La Esperanza Clinic, Department of Health, Rick Mantooth, West Texas Rehab, ASU, YMCA, Private Schools, SAISD, Grapecreek ISD, TLCA, GoodFellow, MHMR, Three Rivers Counseling, Contacts at the Jail,  Pottershand Private Schools, Pediatricians and ask they regularly attend meetings

 

 

 

Educate Providers on Services

 

 

Which ones do we educate?

Get Providers to understand which questions to ask ex) food scarcity 

Create/ Update Community Resources Guides

 

 

 

Distribute Community Resources Guides

 

 

 

Create/ Update Directory of Mental Health Care Providers

 

 

If you have Medicaid you are not limited in services you can still seek services  in the private sector

Public Service Announcements on Asking for Help

 

 

Radio, Peachjar,  

Setting up Meetings to share Community Resources Guides

 

 

Contact Coaches, YMCA, Rec Leagues, Daycare Providers, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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