Comprehensive Prevention Planning
Resources
Approved County Comprehensive Prevention Plans
Summaries and full text of all approved Comprehensive Prevention Plans for California Counties.
Foundational Comprehensive Prevention Planning Information
- California’s Family First Prevention Services (FFPSA Part I) – Frequently Asked Questions (CDSS)– updated October 2023
- Prevention Planning Acronyms and Key Terms
- Family First Prevention Services Program Title IV-E Agency Early Opt In Contact List (Updated May 2023)
- California’s 5-Year State Prevention Plan (Approved April 2023)
- FamilyFirstAct.org This website is a national collaborative partnership that provides a searchable database of FFPS-related information, resources, and examples
- AB 153
- ACL 22-23 (March 10, 2022) – Family First Prevention Services Program Opt-In Process, State FFPS Program Block Grant Allocation Methodology And Allowable Activities
- ACL 23-23 (February 23, 2023)
- ACIN I-73-21 (September 8, 2021) – Family First Prevention Services Act Implementation In California
- Comprehensive Prevention Plan Development Tools and Resources
- CDSS Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) Overview website (New)
- CDSS Family First Prevention Services Act website
- Questions/Requests for assistance – Prevention Services Mailbox: ffpsapreventionservices@dss.ca.gov
- Questions related to FFPSA Part I, Comprehensive Prevention Planning, technical assistance, connecting with a county prevention planning team, etc.
Funding & Sustainability
- Comprehensive Prevention Funding Guide (CDSS)
- CPP Local Spending Plan Template (.xls) (CDSS)
- ACL 23-41 (May 26, 2023) Family First Prevention Services Act, Family First Transition Act, Transition Grant And Certainty Grants, Annual Reporting Instructions, Fiscal Year 2021-2022
- California Prevention Services Funding Chart: 2022 CA Prevention Services Funding Streams – Recent Funding (CDSS)
- Family First Prevention Services (FFPS) Program
- CFL 21-/22-84 (March 11, 2022) – FY21-22 Family First Prevention Services Program General Fund allocation
- CFL 21-22-110 (June 1, 2022) – Claiming Instructions For The County Opt-In Family First Prevention Services (FFPS) Program
- Family First Transition Act (FFTA) Guidance (overview and reporting requirements)
- ACL 21-47 FFTA Transition Grant and Funding Certainty Grant for FFPSA
- ACL 21-155 – Instructions for data that must be reported to the State for inclusion in the Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR) required by the federal government, as well as the data required by CDSS for FFPSA strategic planning
- State Block Grant
- CFL 21/22-109 – Redistribution and finalization of the Family First Transition Act (FFTA) Grant Allocation
- Questions regarding FFTA allocations – fiscal.systems@dss.ca.gov
- FFTA Claiming Claiming CFL 20/21-91
- CBCAP Allocations
- Alphabet Soup: A Simple Serving of Complex Concepts in Child Welfare (FMAP Explainer) (The Imprint: Youth & Family News)
- Maintenance of Effort (Bucket Slide from 6/29 Learning Forum)
- Transforming Child Welfare Services and Supports through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)
- The California Children’s Trust Initiative: Financing New Approaches to Achieve Child Well-Being
- Fiscal Mapping for Early Childhood Services: Data Collection Tool (Center for Healthcare Strategies)
- Webinar Replay: Funding Our Kids: Understanding the Federal Government’s Investments in Children and Youth (Children’s Funding Project)Learn about fiscal mapping, sources of federal social infrastructure funds, and the Children’s Funding Project’s Federal Funding Database.
Community Supporting
- Shifting from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting (OCAP/CAP Center 2023 Child Abuse Prevention Month Webinar Series, April 2023)
- Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting Task Force
Growing and Sustaining Partnerships within Your Cross-Sector Team
- AB2083 (System of Care)
- ILT (System of Care) Inquiry (1-page guide)(Comprehensive Prevention Planning Learning Series)
- Ventura County Child, Youth, and Family Wellness System Vision Brief
- Ventura County Quilt
- Ventura County Child and Family Well Being System MOU
- Family First Toolkit part 2: Implementation & Change Management (Chapin Hall)
- Indiana’s Framework for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect: Community Implementation Toolki
- Center for States – Visioning for Prevention: Vision Tracking Matrix to support stronger collaboration and improve the coordination of resources
Community Engagement and Lived Expertise
- AB2083 (System of Care)
- ILT (System of Care) Inquiry (1-page guide)(Comprehensive Prevention Planning Learning Series)
- Ventura County Child, Youth, and Family Wellness System Vision Brief
- Ventura County Quilt
- Ventura County Child and Family Well Being System MOU
- Community Engagement Toolkit (Collective Impact Forum)
- Constituent Voice Assessment Toolkit & Best Practices (Family Voices United)
- Family Voices United Resources (Searchable lived expertise database)
- LEx (Lived Expertise) Leader Service Members Compensation & Support Guidelines (FosterClub)
- Generations United Community Building
- How can organizations assess their readiness to co-design? (Casey Family Programs) (This brief provides an overview of what it means to engage in co-design, and offers key considerations to authentically engage people with lived experience.)
- Centering Equity in Collective Impact, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2022)
- CalTrin Blog: Resources to Support Racial Equity in Family-Serving Systems
- Connecting with Families in Black and Indigenous Communities (Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network): outlines questions to consider when working with Black and Indigenous families.
Community Pathways
- How are States Building Community-Based Pathways to Prevention Services through Family First (Casey Family Programs, Sept. 2022)
- Prevention and Early Intervention Committee Community Pathway Recommendations and slides from the March 1, 2023 California Child Welfare Council meeting. You can also explore information about planning and implementation for pathway initiatives in Humboldt, Los Angeles, and San Diego Counties that structurally support family strengthening and families’ connection to prevention services.Guidance on Community Pathways from the Children’s Bureau; This memo from Chapin Hall and Public Consulting Group highlights key takeaways from the federal guidance on providing Family First Prevention Services to children who are served by community organizations but not involved with child welfare. This resource can also be found in Chapin Hall’s Family First Toolkit, which is divided into three sections: planning and readiness, implementation and change management, and evaluating and improving quality.
Implementation
- Home Visiting in the Family First Context (Chapin Hall and Start Early): provides recommendations to strengthen collaboration between home visiting and child welfare at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Bulletin: Child Welfare Practice to Address Racial Disproportionality and Disparity (Children’s Bureau): Brief overview of racial disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system and contributing factors. It describes practices that child welfare caseworkers, administrators, program managers, and policymakers can implement to address these issues in general and at specific decision-making points along the child welfare continuum.
Tribal Engagement and Collaboration
- ACYF-CB-PI-18-10 Tribal Title IV-E Agency Requirements for Electing Title IV-E Prevention and Family Services and Programs
- Designated Tribal Agents for Notice in ICWA Cases (ICWA)
Integrated Core Practice Model
Prevention Continuum (Primary/Secondary/Tertiary) and Primary Prevention Resources & Strategies
- OCAP Framework for Prevention
- Defining the Five Protective Factors Infographic (CTF Alliance) (English & Spanish versions)
- CDC: Social Determinants of Health
- CSSP Strengthening Families
- CalTrin Blog: Understanding and Integrating the Protective Factors Framework into Everyday Practice – Overview of the Protective Factors and resources available to better understand and integrate this framework into everyday practice.
- Center for States: Visioning for Prevention: Protecting Children Through Strengthening Families
- A Key Connection: Economic Stability and Family Well-being (Chapin Hall)
- Economic and Concrete Supports Services Manual (PCG): This manual guides an organization through the development and implementation of Economic and Concrete Support Services for families.
- Casey Family Programs: Can reductions in child poverty impact involvement with child protective services? This journal article summary outlines study findings that elevate the importance of providing families living in poverty with economic and community-based supports as a better alternative to child welfare system involvement.
- Economic and Concrete Supports “Evidence to Impact” Policy Tool: Easy-to-follow overview of peer-reviewed research related to reducing risk for child maltreatment and child welfare involvement aligned with policy options that jurisdictions can leverage to increase access and impact of economic and concrete supports.
- CalTrin Self-Paced Course: Exploring a Prevention Mindset: This course provides a foundation for moving toward a prevention mindset, including a review of the benefits of a prevention mindset, how your work fits in the CDSS prevention framework, and tools and resources.
- Reimagining Wellbeing: Local Policy Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences in California’s Communities (All Children Thrive – California (ACT) and the California Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative): A resource for ACT-Funded Projects, ACEs and child maltreatment prevention advocates, and local coalition facilitators who are working to support communities as they educate about the need to adopt and implement evidence-based and evidence-informed local policy strategies that improve the lives of California’s children and families.
Evidence-Based Practices
- Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse
- CA Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC)
- EBPs for inclusion can be found in California’s Five-Year State Prevention Plan (Appendix A, p. 48)
- Review of Well-Supported Programs on the Title IV-E Prevention Series Clearinghouse (CalTrin)
- Prevention Services Inventory (Children Now) Includes programs and services that fall within one or multiple FFPSA service categories, and (1) have been reviewed or are pending review by the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse, or (2) have not yet been selected for review but have relevance to FFPSA and a confirmed presence in California.
- Family First Evidence-Based Practices Exploration and Cost Tool (Chapin Hall)
- Wraparound (FFPSA Part I)
- The Potential of Motivational Interviewing: Implementing a Practice that Shifts the Center of Gravity in Child Welfare (Chapin Hall)
- Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (Recording and Resources)(CalTrin)
- Interventions that States Plan to Use for FFPSA (Casey Family Programs)
- FFPSA Interventions for Families of Color (Casey Family Programs)
- Elevating Culturally Specific Evidence-Based Practice (Chapin Hall)
- Toolkit for Modifying EBPS to Increase Cultural Competence
- Review of Well-Supported Programs on the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse webinar series replay. Watch the recordings and review slides and resources for these California-focused webinars
- CalTrin trainings on evidence-based practices: Browse recordings, presentation slides, and related materials.
- When to Adapt: Ensuring Evidence-Based Treatments Work for Children of Diverse Cultural Backgrounds (Issue Brief 88, Child Health and Development Institute)
- Adapting Evidence-Based Practices for Under Resourced Populations (SAMSHA)
Data/CQI/Fidelity
- Data Playbook for Prevention Action Planning (Safe & Sound) – Guide for prevention planning teams to source, select, gather, analyze, and share data and stories to engage communities and key stakeholders in this important process to strengthen families.
- Family First Toolkit Part 3: Evaluating & Improving Quality (Chapin Hall)
Mental Health Coordination and Consultation