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TRENDS REPORT (DRAFT)
January, 2017
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Everyone expecting less money from local, state and federal governments.
The public sector saying they want to buy results instead of buying services.
Most funders preferring to buy evidence-based or evidence promising services.
Emphasis on producing durable results that can be sustained over time.
Decisions to develop systems of care over more traditional service delivery.
6) Movement from child-centered toward family-driven, youth guided perspectives.
7) Re-emergence of a focus on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for all family work.
8) Engagement being seen as the means and family stability being seen as the end.
9) Permanency for all children and success with a stable family being the goal.
10) Promoting “safe, secure, calm and well” as the expected results of our efforts.
11) Focusing on assuring that all families have a strong natural support network.
12) Focusing on making solid family connections to existing community resources.
13) Focusing on helping working poor parents to find better paying jobs.
14) Emphasis on using wraparound designs to help meet family needs.
15) Efforts to redesign all existing services to ensure more durable results.
16) Movement away from “one size fits all” and towards more individualization.
17) Increased efforts to teach “normal developmental processes” to all staff.
18) The use of “guidance” for staff behaviors to promote trauma-informed care.
19) Efforts to address the impact of trauma in all aspects of child and family work.
20) Emphasis on reduction of seclusion/restraint and points and level systems.
21) Development of “family engagement plans” for all families being served.
22) Continued efforts to reduce the use of long-term out of home care.
23) Using out of home care for brief stabilization as a family support service.
24) Safe children, stable families, strong communities and reduced poverty.
25) Emphasis on change leadership as the methods to adapt organizations.
26) Developing cross-functional teams to help to manage the constant change.
27) Significant efforts to begin to integrate physical and behavioral health.
28) Calling for collaborative relationships with primary healthcare providers.
29) Using strategic data analysis to inform change-ready decision making.
30) Continued movement toward more risk-sharing and managed care.
31) Emphasis on developing effective training and support for line staff.
32) Emphasis on finding ways to adjust organizational identity and culture.
33) Community-based family supports preferred over campus-based supports.
34) Emphasis on providing coordinated aftercare supports to ensure durability.
35) Greater coordination with educational and substance use disorder partners.
36) The public sector role moving away from direct service delivery.
37) The public sector focusing more on defining community priorities.
38) The public sector focusing more on developing and enforcing contracts.
39) The public sector looking for solution-finding partners for systems of care.
40) Flexible, responsive, capable and collaborative are key trend capacities.