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WHAT IS PERFORMANCE CONTRACTING FOR DCFS RESIDENTIAL, GROUP HOMES?
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Performance contracting
requires results.
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It rewards positive outcomes
for kids.
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It creates a new finance
model for DCFS children who need residential, group home, and independent
living services.
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It invests in program care.
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It rewards providers who
meet performance standards.
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It works. At DCFS, foster
care performance contracting has been used successfully for a decade, reducing
DCFS wards in state care from more than 50,000 to 16,000 today.
WHY IS PERFORMANCE
CONTRACTING FOR RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT NEEDED?
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Residential youth have
complex behavior challenges and clinical needs.
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Performance contracts
provide new opportunities to develop innovative programming to provide enhanced
clinical treatment, improved stability, and eased transitions to school, home,
and work for kids.
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Long-term savings from
lowered hospitalization costs can be reinvested in new services that help close
treatment gaps and help sustain the benefits of treatment over time.
WHY IS SB 2505 KEY?
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Increased risk, new
expectations, and more agency resource investment need to be reimbursed for
high performing agencies.
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Sufficient money in future
budgets to pay for performance contracting results needs to be available to
sustain improved outcomes.
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Discrepancies occur in rate
setting and program expectations when DHS, DJJ or ISBE require residential
treatment in the same facilities and need to be resolved.
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DCFS performance
contracting benefits can be extended to any child needing residential services
from any state agency.
WHAT
ARE SB 2505’s REQUIREMENTS?
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DCFS must properly finance the
Department’s performance-based programs beginning in FY’10.
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DCFS, DHS, ISBE, and DJJ must work
together to set new performance based requirements and rates for residential
treatment.
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Provider agencies will work with other
state agencies to develop similar performance-based goals and outcomes.
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DHS, ISBE, or DJJ must establish rates
that are at least equal to the DCFS performance-contracting rate.
WHO BENEFITS?
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Youth. Their families.
Local communities. Illinois tax payers.
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Youth can return to
school and families sooner with greater stability and avoid costly, state-paid
hospitalizations.
For More Information:
Marge Berglind, President &
CEO, Child Care Association of Illinois
217-528-4409