CHILDREN'S TASK FORCE |
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GOAL: Lycoming County families will have the resources and
ability to meet their children's mental, physical, emotional,
educational, and economic needs. |
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Statements of need |
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1. Extended out of home placements result in family instability
and children not having adequate connection to stable permanent
families. |
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2. Lack of early prenatal care and drug, alcohol and tobacco
use during pregnancy results in poor birth outcomes. |
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3. Multiple agencies involved with at risk children and their
families not working in concert results in frustration and
hardship for the families and inefficient use of the resources
available to assist families. |
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4. Children face poor outcomes in school and life when there is
minimal quality early childhood care in their early years. |
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5. School age children face poor
outcomes in school and life
when risk factors are present. Children need protective factors
in their lives. |
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System Change Areas |
Indicators |
Indicator goals |
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Prenatal and Infant Health / Healthy Child and Youth Development |
The Nurse Family Partnership Program will address issues of
smoking drinking and drug use during pregnancy. |
The per cent of program participants who smoke will be reduced
from 31% to 25% between Intake and 36 weeks. The percent of
participants who report using alcohol or drugs will be reduced
from 2% to zero during pregnancy. |
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Issues impacting access to first trimester care are being
explored by the collaborative. |
Lack of first trimester care will decrease from 18.1% to less
than 15% of births in Lycoming County. |
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Healthy Child Development |
Nurse Family Partnership Program and Family Support Center
Programs will assist eligible families to enroll in CHIP and
Medicaid. |
In Lycoming County, the number of children (>19) enrolled in
CHIP and Medicaid will be increased from 808 in CHIP and 6,500
in Medicaid to a combined total of 7500, and increase of 192.
The percent of program participants who are recipients of WIC
(85%) and Medicaid (87%) will be increased to 95% for both
programs.C13 |
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Nurse Family Partnership Program and Family Support Center
Programs will assist families to obtain up-to-date immunizations
for all children |
100 % of the children in the Nurse Family Partnership and Family
Support Programs will have on time immunizations |
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Children Ready for School |
Head Start and Early Intervention program participation will
provide services to eligible children. |
Head Start and Early Intervention program participation will
increase from 600 and 250 respectively to a combined total of
1,000. |
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The Early Care and Education will promote efforts to expand
capacity and improve quality of child care programs. |
The Early Care and Education project will work with 10 – 15
child care programs to identify strengths and weakness, and
resources to sustain strengths and address weaknesses. The
Early Care and Education project will identify one capacity gap
and collaboratively address it. |
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School Success |
The School Initiative will promote efforts to decrease risk
factors and increase protective factors for school age children. |
The School Initiative will work with 2 to 3 school districts to
assess risk and protective factors and identify programs to
affect both. |
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Safe Families and Communities |
Decrease children and youth services out-of-home placements
through increased emphasis on placement prevention and
permanency planning. |
Children and Youth Services will decrease out-of- home
placements from and average of 137 to an average of 110 daily. |
