How will Improved Outcomes affect the providers of foster care and preventive services?
Streamlined Decision Making NYC has nearly a fully-contracted foster care and preventive system. As it works now, the provider agency case planner who works most closely with the child and family makes decisions for the child and family, and then NYC Children’s Services case management staff must approve these decisions. The redundancy in the process often slows down the progress with the family. IOC eliminates unnecessary duplication by setting clear responsibilities around decision-making. Through IOC, NYC Children’s Services will not be re-visiting foster care and preventive agency decisions after the fact by reviewing them again. Instead, our conference facilitators will often be on-site at the foster care or preventive agency, offering our expertise and skills and helping to make decisions while they’re being made, not after the fact, and our revised performance accountability system will closely and frequently keep track of providers ability to ensure the safety, permanency, and
