client needs are met; Best practices in the delivery of services to persons with disabilities; Developing a reasonable case management model for service providers with limited client interaction; and Best practices for tracking client activity. III. CHILDREN’S TRUST FUND – PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT APPLICATION IIIA – Parent Education and Training Parent Education and Training consists of classes or support groups for parents of children age birth through 17. Participants are taught child development milestones and appropriate child discipline approaches in order to prevent child abuse and neglect. Programs must use a curriculum or approach that is evidence-based or evidence-informed. Applicants that are awarded funding for Parent Education and Training must comply with the following: Agree to participate in a 2-year capacity-building, phased-in parenting education model. (Refer to Appendix C: Service Matrix for PCAN Parenting Education and Training.) Participate in a state-wide family strengthening and prevention initiative whose main goal is to create a coordinated network of parenting education agencies and professionals; Track unduplicated children, adults, and families and individuals with disabilities; Track demographic information including but not limited to age, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Track established outcomes which will be developed in a group setting. APPLICATION IIIB – Crisis Intervention Crisis Intervention programs must document a critical need related to tertiary prevention of child abuse and neglect and document how this service will be linked to other services to avoid duplication. Contact must be made within 72 hours of crisis and the intervention must be a service. Applicants that are awarded funding for Crisis Intervention must track: The level of long-term support and stabilization resulting from the intervention service. Improvement in the parents’ perception of the child(ren)’s behavior and their perception of their competency as a parent. Achievement of care plan goals. No further or new referrals to and/or involvement with Child Protective Services at 3 and 6 months.
APPENDIX C: Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (PCAN)-Parenting Education and Training SERVICE MATRIX Focus Areas PHASE I (July 1, 2017-Dec. 31, 2017) Program Research and Development Goal: To establish a state-wide coordinated network of parenting education programs that employ standardized processes to reach shared upon outcomes. PHASE II (Jan. 1, 2018-Dec. 31, 2018 Program Implementation Goal: To understand program implementation as three-pronged: (1) delivery of services; (2) process of continuous quality improvement; (3) and ongoing data collection. PHASE III (Jan. 1, 2019-June 30, 2019) Program Evaluation Goal: To assess the effectiveness of parenting education programs in meeting outcomes established in Phase I. Organizational/ Professional Development Prevention and/or parenting education specifically gets included in the overall strategic plans of the agencies. Agencies identify a prevention team within their agency to participate in a state-wide family strengthening and prevention initiative. Members of the initiative will meet quarterly and will be tasked with the review of assessments, drafting of shared outcomes, and the development of targeted outreach plans. Commitment to the capacity building of professionals in the prevention field, including parents. Agencies will attend the Parent Leaders Ambassadors Training offered by FRIENDS National Resource Center the first Agencies’ prevention teams participate in ongoing quarterly initiative meetings. If feasible, grantees attend the Annual Nevada State Child Abuse Prevention and Safety Conference offered by PCA-NV and CAN Prevent NV to take place June 2018. Grantees will participate in no less than two webinars having to do with program implementation in general and or specific elements. Grantees, through their prevention teams, will engage in a process review. (Training on this topic will be offered in Phase II.). If feasible, grantees attend the Annual Nevada State Child Abuse Prevention and Safety Conference offered by PCA-NV and CAN Prevent NV to take place June 2019.
quarter of SFY 18. (No cost to grantees). Curriculums and Programs Grantees will assess and/or identify an evidence-based or evidence-informed parenting education curriculum. (Assessment tools will be shared with grantees.) Grantees will develop a targeted outreach plan for their parenting education programs. Grantees will develop shared outcomes through a state-wide coordinated and standardized process. Grantees will adopt data gathering mechanisms and establish a data gathering timeline. Grantees will schedule parent education classes. Implement data gathering mechanisms and revisit timelines; Continue the outreach action steps outlined in the Targeted Outreach Plan; Collect data based on outcomes identified in Phase I. Agencies continue offering parent education classes; Agencies aggregate data and evaluate outcomes; Agencies submit final reports. Assess and/or identify key partners within the prevention/ parenting education field. Attend a webinar on the collective impact of partnership-building efforts. Agencies engage their local communities and parents in a needs assessment process. Network, share information and resources and engage with fellow members of the statewide initiative. Continue to document partnerships through MOUs and Letters of Intent. Identify emerging partners. Grantees will offer in-services to community agencies and other potential partners on their respective parenting education programs. Grantees participate in PCA-NV’s sponsored Pinwheels for Prevention during Child Abuse Prevention Month (April 2018). (Details forthcoming). Conversations with partners around program improvement areas, leveraging and partnership sustainability. (A webinar will be offered on the topic at the beginning of Phase III). Grantees participate in PCA-NV’s sponsored Pinwheels for Prevention during Child Abuse Prevention Month (April 2019). (Details forthcoming).