Statewide partnership with Department of Children and Family Services and includes nine regions.
Statewide Highlights & Current Priorities:
Planful Transitions
Early connections focus – Initial “Comfort” Calls & Icebreaker Meetings
QPI Practice Guides developed for use by staff, foster caregivers, birth parents, partners clarifying best practice in that area, and implementation strategies. Topics include:
Confidentiality and Information Sharing
Initial Calls
Icebreakers
Planful Transitions, and
Placement Guide for Care Setting Decision Making with Young Children
Birth and Foster Parent Mentors (region specific)
Minnesota
Joined QPI in 2017
Partnership with Aspire MN and specific private agencies
Highlights:
Initial (comfort) calls passed into legislation effective November 2020
Reunification day proclamation by Governor Walz June 25, 2020
QPI-MN Champions cohort; 12 individuals trained
Published “Starting Journey as a Relative / Kin Foster Parent” video series in conjunction with Mitchell Hamline Law School
Current Priorities
Youth Voice – developing youth designed and facilitated training for prospective foster parents and child welfare staff
Birth-foster parent connection
Elevating voice and leadership of lived experience individuals
Antiracism action work group
Expanding statewide network QPI-MN regional sites and members
Piloted QPI Champions program in 2020
Learn more about QPI Minnesota’s history and current movement at qpimn.org
Nevada
Joined QPI in 2011
Statewide partnership includes Clark County Department of Family Services, Clark County, Washoe County Human Services Agency Children’s Services Division, and Division of Child and Family Services – Rural Region
Significant areas of focus and achievements:
Statewide policy on Normalcy
Relative placement data indicates high priority and nationally competitive numbers
Siblings being placed together for Clark data high
Statewide policy on Information sharing
Court improvement Project and local judicial partners on QPI ideals and impact on practice
Peer support coaches both for resource families and placement stabilization (Foster Parent Champions in Clark)
Washoe was initial site to practice and formally study the ABC-V practice model now statewide FRV practice
Statewide integration of QPI philosophy
2020 initiatives:
Partnership between birth families and caregivers and staff
Comfort calls
Appropriate transitions
Visitation, and
Kinship navigator program evidence based statewide
Hosted 2nd National QPI Conference in Las Vegas, 2014
Washoe joined QPI Champions program in second cohort, October 2020
Nevada’s Just In Time online training and website: qpinevada.org
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Joined QPI in 2014
Partnership with City of Philadelphia Department of Human Services (county agency) which includes 10 case management agencies, and 25 resource home licensing agencies
Beginning to establish QPI committees in the 10 case management agencies
Areas of focus:
Resource parent court participation
Information-sharing with resource parents
Icebreakers
Training
Hosted 6th National QPI Conference in Philadelphia, 2019
Texas
Joined QPI in 2014
Partnership with Our Community Our Kids (OC-OK), a division of ACH Child and Family Services, First3Years, and 2INgage.
Highlights & Current Priorities
OC-OK assumed case management from DFPS in March 2020 to serve the families of youth in care.
Expanding QPI to rural counties and expanding therapeutic services for youth.