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Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Links to MOUs and Policies Available Online

Illinois Memorandum of Understanding: http://www.f2f.ca.gov/res/pdf/IllinoisMOUMexicanConsulate.pdf Illinois Policy Guide on Notification of the Mexican Consulate: http://www.f2f.ca.gov/res/pdf/IllinoisPolicyGuideMOUMexicanConsulate.pd

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Table 1. Provisions of Memoranda of Understanding Between Child Welfare Agencies and Consulates

TABLE 1. PROVISIONS OF MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN CHILD WELFARE AGENCIES AND CONSULATES Illinois Iowa Nebraska New Mexico Missouri* Washington* Los Angeles County, CA Monterey County, CA Riverside County, CA San Diego County, CA Sacramento County, CA

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Conclusions

The states we spoke with consistently reported that cases involving immigrant families go more smoothly when consulates are involved from the early stages of the case. Involving the consulate from the outset can ensure the parents and children are properly represented and can prevent delays when permanency options are considered. Consulates can al

Washington: Consular Cooperation without an MOU

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Washington: Consular Cooperation without an MOU

Several years ago Washington state’s child welfare agency focused on strengthening their working relationship with the immigrant community and compliance with the relevant Vienna Convention requirements. In particular, they focused on notification of consulates when immigrant children and children of immigrants are placed in foster care.

New Mexico: More Recent Collaborative Efforts

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. New Mexico: More Recent Collaborative Efforts

New Mexico’s agreement with its Mexican consulate is more recent than Illinois’s, dating to 2009. According to Arleen Lucero who manages the MOU for the state, the agreement has opened the lines of communication between government agencies on either side of the agreement. “It is beneficial to both agencies and is in the children’s best int

Illinois: A Decade of Cooperation with the

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Illinois: A Decade of Cooperation with the Mexican Consulate

Illinois has among the largest immigrant communities in the nation and is a well-established destination for immigrant families. Given this context, the Illinois state child welfare agency, known as the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), established a specialized Immigration Services Unit that is responsible for assisting staff on

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Content

The agreements varied considerably, with some much more detailed than others. The only element common to all of them was the requirement that the consulate be notified whenever the child welfare agency had custody of one of its citizens or the child of one of its citizens. Some other elements appeared in many agreements, but many provisions appear

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Agreements and Policies Reviewed

We identified 9 MOUs and 2 closely related policies from the following jurisdictions:

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates. Background

As the number of immigrant children and children of immigrants in the U.S. has grown, child welfare agencies are serving an increasingly diverse spectrum of families, including many families in which at least one parent or some children were born outside the U.S. This is true both in states that historically have been home to large immigrant popul

Emerging Child Welfare Practice Regarding Immigrant Children in Foster Care: Collaborations with Foreign Consulates

As the number of immigrant children and children of immigrants in the U.S. has grown, child welfare agencies are serving an increasingly diverse spectrum of families, including many with at least one parent or some children who were born outside the U.S. To improve their work with these families, a number of child welfare agencies have in recent y

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Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. Appendix B: Research Questions

The evaluation of the SC2 pilot addressed three main research questions. These questions are listed below, along with associated sub-research questions.

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.4 Conclusion

Several of the accomplishments in New Orleans are representative of the goals of SC2, including developing sustainable local partnerships to build the city’s capacity to address priority areas and removing bureaucratic barriers to progress. The SC2 team also facilitated cross-agency collaboration that helped identify solutions to problems threat

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.3.3 Activities

The SC2 team spent the first three-and-a-half months executing “quick wins.” This strategy helped the team to hit the ground running and make early progress while more long-term activities were in development. Quick wins were defined by the team as projects or activities whose objectives were to address issues that matter to the average citize

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.3.2 Work Approach—Interactions, Communication, and Meetings

The SC2 team lead in New Orleans facilitated the engagement, taking responsibility for overseeing working groups of team members and city staff established to address each of the city’s priority areas. He also worked closely with the city’s point of contact for the pilot to incorporate the city’s perspective; he engaged external stakeholders

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.3.1 Developing the Work Plan

Before deployment, the city identified seven priority areas for the SC2 initiative to focus on: criminal justice, economic development, workforce development, health and human services, information technology, operations, and sustainable communities. 27

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.3 Summary of Pilot Implementation

The following section begins with a description of the SC2 pilot kickoff and the work plan development process. The narrative then describes how the New Orleans SC2 team and the city worked together, and finally it summarizes key SC2 team activities during the first 18 months of implementation.

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.2.3 Local Partners

In several instances, the New Orleans SC2 team worked with local partners to address city priorities. In one case the SC2 team engaged a professor at Tulane University and local law enforcement officials to establish the mayor’s Strategic Command to Reduce Murder, a coalition that adopts innovative approaches to stem the cycle of violence that l

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.2.2 Involved City Staff

In keeping with the mayor’s support for the pilot, he ensured that city staff worked closely with team members. Most significantly, he directed a key contact in his administration, the director of strategic partnerships, to oversee the engagement and represent the mayor’s perspective on SC2 team activities. This point person established a clos

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.2.1 Composition of the SC2 Team

Over time, the New Orleans SC2 team comprised 25 representatives from 12 agencies. There were four members full-time on the ground, two detailed from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and two from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), with other team members based in Washington, DC, or in federal offices in the reg

Evaluation of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Teams Pilot: Final Report. A6.2 Key Stakeholders

Key stakeholders in the SC2 pilot in New Orleans consisted of the team members, local government staff, and community partners. Each is described below.

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