OACAS Collaboration Project

Other Documents Produced from Excerpts of the Original Paper Developing a Collaborative Intervention Model

Handbook, Child Welfare Collaboration Model for Ontario
This is a reference manual for front line workers and supervisors/managers. It has been constructed from relevant sections of the original position paper. It is added here so that it may be a potential source for agencies who are trying to enhance collaboration by providing practice knowledge to front line workers and supervisors. It includes culturally appropriate approaches as well as a theory base.

Measuring Collaboration in a Child Welfare Agency- Excerpts from Developing a Collaborative Intervention Model
This is a reference manual, constructed from relevant sections of the original position paper. It is added here as a potential source for Quality Assurance supervisors who are trying to enhance collaboration by developing measures and outcomes relevant to collaboration with children, families, and communities. This document provides ideas for the measurement of front line practice or internal culture.

Comments from the Field
After the initial Phase 1 Position Paper was released to the field in the summer of 2005, agencies and individuals in the field were asked to provide their comments. Here they have been placed into a separate file for your review.

A Listing of Recommendations Outlined in the OACAS Project Paper (25-45 excluded)
The Initial Phase 1 Position Paper provided a number of recommendations to the field. Since they were to be a focus of Phase 2 of the Project it was important to draw them out. The Aboriginal recommendations have been excluded and made a separate focus as they required the active participation of Aboriginal representatives.

Recommendations on the Provision of Child Welfare Services to Native Children
These are recommendations specific to Aboriginal children, families and communities. They have been passed on to Aboriginal representatives for consideration and activation. They were developed by Aboriginal front line workers and managers in a focus group held in Thunder Bay in 2005. Many recommendations involve procedural changes under the jurisdiction of CAS agencies and could be implemented independently by those CAS agencies.

Email Sent to Each CAS Explaining the Release of Phase I of the CD
When the first Project Paper was completed, a disc containing it and all other documentation and reference material was sent out by the OACAS to each Child Welfare Agency in Ontario. This is the covering e-mail which was distributed prior to the arrival of the actual OACAS package

List of Project Recommendations From the Position Paper
This includes all recommendations included in the Phase I position paper that can be reviewed in a previous section.

Presentation to the E.D.'s and Associate Members During Local Directors Conference in Niagara Falls
This is the Powerpoint presentation given to the Local Directors- prior to their approval by motion of the project Phase 1 and the further endorsement of a Phase 2 implementation phase of the project.

PPT Presentation To Directors of Service Across Ontario
At the same conference, 5 members of the Project Committee of Phase 1, all Directors of Services, presented this informative powerpoint presentation to all of the Directors of Services who were attending the annual meeting. It may be used to describe the meaning of collaboration in our suggested Ontario Model and certain parts can be run as a slide show.

The Motion - as passed by the Zone Chairs and the L.D. Section of the OACAS at the Annual Meeting. Authorizing Phase 2 of the Project.
This is the actual motion authorizing Phase 2 of the Collaboration Project

This section includes the work completed by the Phase II committee formed as a continuation of the OACAS Project on Collaboration. It acted on the motion passed by the Local Directors to look at how the model may be implemented and focused. The first file is the project paper, the subsequent files represent the work done by various sub-committees to complete the recommendations suggested in Phase I..

Child Welfare in Ontario:
Implementing a Collaborative Intervention Model
For Child Protection Services in Ontario
PHASE II

Of the Implementation into Provincial Child Protection Practice of a Position Paper Submitted by the Provincial Project Committee on Enhancing Positive Worker Interventions With Children and their Families in Protection Services: Best Practices and Required Skills

This is the final paper which will be submitted for OACAS approval in September 2006

Collaborative Model Overview in Newsletter Format

This is a description of the model in a two page handout that could be used in workshops or presentations.

Research Grant Working Group From Position Paper Chapter 6
This is the work of the subcommittee which developed and submitted a Grant-In-Aid proposal on behalf of seven of the CAS agencies participating in Phase 2 of the Collaboration project. They designed a proposal to explore how a worker's style of relationship with families can affect the safety of children. It also looks at various other aspects which will be helpful to the field such as whether those children, who initially were referred for a forensic investigation, could be potentially safer through effective worker engagement. It was designed to establish whether there were instances where the workers should be wary of engagement being a motivator for change. The potential role of worker engagement and best practice in relation to differential response, safety of children and permanency was also considered. The submission to the Ministry is provided above.

Michelle Young, a Researcher from McMaster, has translated our successful Grant In Aid into a more formal format, added to the Phase 2 Project Paper.
Worker-Parent Engagement Report

An Outline of The Ontario Model for Collaboration in Child Protection (from the Phase 1Position Paper) in One Page or Less
This is designed to specifically show the interrelationship of the various factors which were discussed as contributing to Collaboration and form the essence of the Ontario Model
Here is the explanation of the Ontario Model for Collaboration in Child Protection from a single page perspective. It is designed to give people an understanding of how the Project Paper is laid out and interrelated around 'collaboration'. There is concern that the paper is large and some people may not see the interconnections initially. This is designed to help with that. The first page gives the questions and the concepts that the paper attempts to answer. The second page gives the actual titles which were developed to explain the questions and concepts outlined in the first page.

A Collaborative Approach to Child Welfare - Diagram of the Intervention Model by Topic

A Series of Schematic viewpoints explaining the Collaborative Model as contributed by Claude Gingras who is the Quality Assurance Manager of the Kingston Frontenac CAS
These are also included in the Phase 2 Position Paper but are reproduced here for agencies and universities who may wish to explain certain collaborative concepts to staff or to social work students. Claude Gingras submitted them after reading the Phase 1 Position Paper.

A Collaborative Approach to Program Evaluation

In home support model

Access Visiting For Children In Care: An Opportunity for Engagement and Collaboration (1)
The Phase II Project Provided an additional series of articles and power points which outlined the importance of access visiting in true collaboration with children and their families. The specific contributors are mentioned below. One of the areas that has become crucial for true collaboration is in the area of Access Visiting. At one meeting a presentation was made by Rocci Pagnello, Director of Services at Leeds Grenville. His slides have now been made into a powerpoint presentation, slide show for training purposes. Click to move each part of an individual slide advance between object animations and pages. There are subsequent word documents that will support this slideshow. Susan Jackson, a Coordinator from Durham CAS has developed a powerpoint presentation and a manual, both are listed below. Brant CAS has contributed a set of procedures which may be helpful in providing agency structure in regard to access visiting. Finally, Darlene Niemi, a manager at Thunderbay CAS has provided a research paper on the importance of appropriate access.

Presentation2b (run as Slideshow (F5))
This powerpoint and the subsequent word document manual immediately below were developed and contributed by Susan Jackson, the Access Care Coordinator from Durham CAS.

Durham CAS Access Care Training

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Brant CAS has contributed a set of procedures which may be helpful in providing agency structure in regard to access visiting. It is a start to develop a collaborative approach. Other aspects such as therapeutic groups and the role of foster parents are included. It starts from the less intrusive to the more intrusive.

Barriers Exercise
This and the six files listed below are aspects of training which could be added to any program that an individual agency is thinking of developing. The ideas were contrisbuted by Rocci Pagnello, the Director of Services of Leeds Grenville CAS.

Progress on OACAS Clinical Supervision Module - developed by the OACAS Training Department
Many of the Phase I Project Committee members were asked to remain on the Clinical Supervision Module development committee of the OACAS. There was a presentation in March 2006 that outlined the progress to date by Katherine Dill a Phd Social Work student at the University of Toronto. In addition two American social work professors who have had extensive child protection experience in Kentucky and in Mississippi outlined their research on clinical supervision in child protection. We are thankful for the permission to reproduce their slide presentation in its entirety and to use their competency scales for supervisors. This has been converted to a word document in case there are agencies who wish to include it in their supervisory evaluation package.

Presentation by Two Professors on Clinical Supervision in Child Welfare
This is a powerpoint presentation by Crystal Collins-Camargo, Southern Regional Quality Improvement Center at the University of Kentucky; Kim Shackelford, university of Mississippi, Department of Social Work. They gave this to a group of Executive Directors and Directors of Services at the OACAS.

Toronto Handout
This is the handout that goes with their powerpoint presentation

Toronto WORKSHEET - Supportive Supervision

CPS SUPERVISOR COMPETENCIES2

QIC Fact Sheet2

Slide Miniatures - DofS Presentation

Brant CAS Child Welfare Services Manager Competencies demonstrating Collaborative Attributes

Ontario's Child Welfare Transformation as Outlined in PowerPoint Presentations
These are contributed by two agencies involved in the collaboration project (Leeds Grenville and Waterloo CAS). Other Agencies are welcome to adapt for their own use. They are included in this disc since Transformation and Collaboration are interrelated. Collaboration is an integral part of Transformation and tied to its success