Title: Supporting abused and neglected children through early care and policy This webinar will make the case for supporting abused and neglected children through early care opportunities as well as describe how to use the healthycity.org site to research and identify policy solutions around foster youth and early childhood education issues. Learning objectives: 1) Strengthen one’s understanding of populations that make up abused and neglected children 2) Learn how to identify data around abused and neglected children on healthycity.org 3) Understand policy opportunities to improve conditions for the youngest abused and neglected children

1. Supporting abused and neglected children
through early care and policy
November 20, 2014
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Presenters
Angela Vazquez
Policy Analyst, Educational Equity
avazquez@advanceproj.org
www.Healthycity.org
Facebook.com/HealthyCityCA
@HealthyCityCA
info@healthycity.org
Jonathan Nomachi
Manager of Collaborative Initiatives
jnomachi@advanceproj.org
www.AdvancementProjectCA.org
Facebook.com/AdvancementProjectCA
info@advanceproj.org

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3. Question for Participants
What are you hoping to get
our of today’s webinar?
(Type it in the question section)

4. Healthy City is a program of
Advancement Project is a public policy change organization rooted in the
civil rights movement. We engineer large-scale systems change to remedy
inequality, expand opportunity and open paths to upward mobility. Our goal
is that members of all communities have the safety, opportunity and health
they need to thrive.

5. What We Do
ONLINE MAPPING
TECHNOLOGY
www.HealthyCity.org
DIRECT TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE:
Strengthen community voice and
Work ON-THE-GROUND
action targeted
to develop
research/policy
strategies and web
tools.
Increase resources in underserved
communities of color
COMMUNITY
RESEARCH LAB
Advance equitable public polices.
Engages, trains, and
provides tools for
community groups to lead
and sustain actionoriented research

6. Educational Equity
• Prevent California’s most vulnerable young children,
including children of color, low-income children, and more
recently, children in foster care, from starting behind and
staying behind.
• Improve and expand high-quality early care and education
(ECE) for California’s children by bringing together diverse
stakeholders to build consensus for policy solutions that
support the needs of children from birth to five.

7. Question for Participants
What are you hoping to get
our of today’s webinar?
(Type it in the question section)

8. Today you will learn how to:
 Strengthen one’s understanding of populations
that make up abused and neglected children
 Learn how to identify data around abused and
neglected children on healthycity.org
 Understand policy opportunities to improve
conditions for the youngest abused and
neglected children

9. Poverty
•Healthcare
•Basic
necessities
•Housing stability
•Employment
Parent Coping
Skills
Child Health &
Socioemotional
Challenges
Low Parent
Education
Children and families can
experience multiple layers of
risk for abuse and neglect.
•Low
understanding of
normal child
development
•Employment
Risk of
Abuse or
Neglect
• Parent Mental
Health
• Parent Health
• Parent History of
Abuse/Neglect
Trauma
Low Social &
Concrete
Support
• Access to Public
Services
• Community
connections
• English Language

10. -
•
A majority of
families known to
the child welfare
system have been
or are also receiving
CalWORKS/public
assistance
60-87%, according to
statewide estimates of
overlapping caseloads
“These kids are
mostly hungry
and dirty…”
Erwin McEwen, Former
Director of Illinois Dept. of
Children & Family Services
Substantiated Allegation Type
Children <5 Years, Jan. 2011-Dec. 2011
Los Angeles County
Sexual Abuse
2%
Caretaker
Absence/Incapacity
4%
At Risk, Sibling
Abused
10%
Physical
Abuse
5%
Severe Neglect
5%
Emotional
Abuse
18%
Exploitation
0%
General
Neglect
56%

11. Children “At-Risk” – but for
what?
 Developmental delays
 Poor academic success
 Socioemotional competencies & well-being
 Negative life outcomes, including delinquency/criminal
behavior, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, homelessness.
This is true for children from low-income families and
disadvantaged communities, generally. It is especially true of
children known to child welfare agencies, given the high
likelihood of overlapping and cumulative impact of known
risk factors.

12. Early Care & Education Mitigates
Risk and Promotes Safety &
Resilience
Risk Factors
• Low Parent Education & Employment
• Community disengagement
• Poverty & Housing Stability
• Child Health & Socioemotional Issues
Protective Factors
• Parental Resilience
• Social Connections
• Knowledge of Parenting & Child Development
• Concrete Support in Times of Need
• Social & Emotional Competence of Children

13. What makes the children under child
welfare supervision a high-priority
population for ECE services?
Child Health &
Socioemotional
Challenges
Poverty
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•
•
•
Healthcare
Basic necessities
Housing stability
Employment
Parent Coping
Skills
• Parent Mental Health
• Parent Health
• Parent History of
Abuse/Neglect
Trauma
Risk of
Abuse or
Neglect
Low Parent
Education
Low Social &
Concrete Support
• Low understanding
of normal child
development
• Employment
• Access to Public
Services
• Community
connections

14. A life disrupted
 When a child experiences abuse or
neglect, they have additional traumas layered
onto environmental and familial risk.
 Physical or emotional wounds of abuse/neglect
 Further disruption of early attachment with a
caregiver
 Environmental instability

15. The effects of toxic stress are most
apparent in children under five
known to child welfare agencies.

Five times more likely to have developmental
delays

Up to 50% of children known to child welfare
agencies

Basic skills beget more skills

Lack of stable, nurturing relationships with
adults that enhance early learning experiences
The children known to child welfare agencies
are an easily identifiable population who could
most benefit from early intervention and
support services, such as high-quality early
care and education.

16. Children in Foster Care
When we talk about “atrisk” children, who are we
talking about?
(Usually Court-Ordered)
Children in Relative Care
(Court Ordered)
Children In Relative Care
(Voluntary)
Children in Supervised
Home Care
(Court-Ordered)
Children in Supervised
Home Care
(Voluntary)
Children With Allegations of
Abuse/Neglect Referred Out

17. Questions?

18. How to find information around
at-risk children using HealthyCity.org?

19. Types of Geographies on HealthyCity.org
Types of Geographies Available on HC.org
Address/Intersection
Consolidated Precinct
Census block group
Census Tract
ZIP Code
City
Assembly District
Senate District
Congressional District
County
Region
Place Based Initiatives (including The California Endowment Building
Healthy Communities and First 5 Los Angeles Best Start Communities)
Los Angeles (and other Counties) Area Boundaries (including Service
Planning Areas, L.A. County Health Districts, and LAUSD School
Attendance Boundaries, Board of Supervisors, City Council)

20. Creating Maps with HealthyCity.org:
Services and Point Data
Data Name
Source
Social Services
211s
Public & Private Schools
California Department of Education
WIC Agencies & Vendors
Network for a Healthy California
Hospitals (OSHPD)
OSHPD
Head Start Agencies
California Head Start Association
Child Care
Alcohol Outlet
Air Quality Data
Department of Social Services Community
Care Licensing Division
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Health Resources and Services
Administration
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Environmental Protection Agency
Grocery Stores
Banks
Check-Cashing Businesses
DeLorme
DeLorme
DeLorme
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
•Over 2,500 variables!
•Multiple years & levels available

21. Let’s look at the number of at-risk
children and lack of child care
spaces in San Bernardino
County

24. At-risk children and child care
spaces

25. At-risk children and child care
spaces

28. At-risk children and child care spaces

30. WORD
version of
maps/charts

32. PRINT map
SAVE map for
future reference
EMAIL/SHARE
map

33. Questions?

34. Early Care and Education Rates
are Low for LA’s
Abused/Neglected Children
 12.8% (1,509) of the LA County child protective
services caseload under age five, 11,778 as of
October 2011, attended public early care and
education programs, including Federal Head
Start/Early Head Start (484) and state subsidized child
care/preschool (1,042 children).
In contrast, about 20% of infants and toddlers and
about 50% of 3 & 4 year-olds from LA County’s lowincome families are able to access subsidized child
care and development services.

35. An example of state
and federal policy
misalignment…
Children Receiving Protective Services
or “At-Risk of Abuse & Neglect”
Priority for State
Subsidized
Child Care &
Development
Services
Who receives priority?
Only those children
living at home whom a
child welfare worker or
child care administrator
deems “imminently atrisk” without the
provision of child
care/early education
services.
Children not
“imminently at-risk”
At home
(Family
Maintenance
/Emergency
Response)
With family
caregiver (Family
Reunification &
Permanent
Placement/Emergency Response)
In foster care/foster
family home
(Family
Reunification &
Permanent
Placement)
Closed case –
variety of case
plan histories
(Permanent
Placement/Family
Reunification/Famil
y Maintenance)
• Children of
pregnant/parenting
teens with DCFS
history

36. An example of state
and federal policy
misalignment…
Children Receiving Protective Services
or “At-Risk of Abuse & Neglect”
Priority for Head
Start/Early Head
Start Services
Who receives priority?
Children with an open
child welfare case
residing with a foster
or relative caregiver.
Children not
“imminently at-risk”
At home
(Family
Maintenance
/Emergency
Response)
With family
caregiver
(Family
Reunification &
Permanent
Placement/Emergency Response)
In foster care/foster
family home
(Family
Reunification &
Permanent
Placement)
Closed case –
variety of case
plan histories
(Permanent
Placement/Family
Reunification/Family
Maintenance)
• Children of
pregnant/parenting
teens with DCFS
history

37. Policy Solutions Should …
Emphasize early care and education as prevention
and early intervention across education and child
welfare systems for children most “at-risk” for a
variety of poor outcomes, especially as these
resources continue to shrink for all vulnerable
communities.
ECE and child welfare systems must make
unified efforts to serve children in contact with
child welfare agencies.

38. Questions?

42. Upcoming
Events
FAQ Friday! Call in with
questions
Friday, November 22nd
11:00am-12:00pm
Webinar: Using HealthyCity.org
for Cultural Competent
Outreach and Advocacy
Wednesday, December 18th
2:00pm-4:00pm

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44. Thank You!
Angela Vazquez, avazquez@advanceproj.org
Jonathan Nomachi, jnomachi@advanceproj.org
@EdEquityAP
facebook.com/EducationalEquityAdvancementProject