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F2F Strategy Meetings & Workgroups

Strategy Meetings

Description

Redesign Planning Council
Meets Monthly – 1st Thursday from 8:30 AM -10:00 AM Orangewood Children's Foundation
1575 E. 17th Street
Santa Ana, CA  92705

                                                                                         

Planning Council oversees all Family to Family strategy groups.  Meeting purpose: to evaluate the current system, note strengths and concerns, establish goals for a redesign and look at resources to accomplish these goals.

Recruitment, Development & Support (RDS)
Meets Monthly - 4th Thursday 9:00 AM -10:30 AM
Children & Family Services - Conference Room 1304
800 Eckhoff Street
Orange, CA  92868

Finding and maintaining local resources that can support children and families in their own neighborhoods by recruiting, training and supporting foster/adoptive parents and relative caregivers

Self Evaluation Team (SET)
Meets Monthly - 1st Thursday 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Children & Family Services - Conference Room 1304
800 Eckhoff Street
Orange, CA  92868

SET - TS Subgroup
Meets Monthly - 2nd Thursday 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Children & Family Services - Conference Room 4011
800 Eckhoff Street
Orange, CA  92868

The Self Evaluation Team collects, analyzes, and interprets data about child and family outcomes to find out where progress is being made and to determine where changes are needed in policy and practice. 

Other Workgroups

Description

Foster Youth Outcomes
Meets Monthly – 3rd Wednesday 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Orangewood Children's Foundation
1575 E. 17th Street
Santa Ana, CA  92705

Educational Outcomes targets education, employment, and housing and permanency outcomes by exploring and implementing interventions through increased communication, collaboration and partnerships with the schools and other community partners.

Eliminating Racial Disparities & Disproportionality (ERDD)
Meets Monthly – 2nd Wednesday 9:00 AM -10:30 AM
CASA Offices, 2nd Floor Conf. Room 214
1505 E. 17th Street
Santa Ana, CA 92705 

This workgroup examines the over-or-under representation of minority children in foster care compared to their representation in the general population.

Parent Leadership Task Force (PLTF)
Meets every-other month - 2nd Tuesday 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Children & Family Services - Conference Room 1304
800 Eckhoff Street
Orange, CA  92868

To build the leadership capacity of successfully reunified parents and to enhance child welfare services practice in Orange County.

Parents Taking Action for Families
P.O. Box 11863
Westminster, CA 92685
Parents.taking.action@gmail.com 

The mission of Parents Taking Action for Families is to aid in the reunification and preservation of families by sharing our experience, providing support and encouragement, and utilizing community resources to empower families.

*Building Community Partnerships (BCP) strategy workgroup is continuing within all of the strategy workgroups. 

Download meetings/workgroups schedule or further information about attending a meeting contact:

Raquel Amezcua
Family to Family Coordinator
1-714-704-8090
Raquel.Amezcua@ssa.ocgov.com
Patricia Nichols-Prell, MFT
Parent Leadership Coordinator
1-714-704-8059
Patricia.Nichols-prell@ssa.ocgov.com 

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