Register: Conducting a Fiscal Analysis to Implement Family First Prevention Services Act

The Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion is host­ing a webi­nar on July 22, 2020 to debut a Foun­da­tion tool and guide for child wel­fare lead­ers to plan their fis­cal approach­es to imple­ment­ing the Fam­i­ly First Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices Act.

Reg­is­ter for July 22 Webinar

The webi­nar, Fam­i­ly First Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices: Con­duct­ing a Fis­cal Analy­sis, will pro­vide a tool — along with steps for using it — to under­stand the fis­cal effects of the Fam­i­ly First Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices Act. Par­tic­i­pants will receive prac­ti­cal tips to help them:

• Devel­op real­is­tic bud­get esti­mates for evi­dence-based programs,
• Project the staffing and con­tract­ed resources need­ed to effec­tive­ly admin­is­ter pre­ven­tion services,
• Esti­mate match­ing Title IV‑E rev­enue, with con­sid­er­a­tion of Med­ic­aid cov­er­age, Main­te­nance of Effort and evi­dence spend­ing require­ments, and
• Project cost sav­ings in spend­ing on out-of-home place­ments gen­er­at­ed by suc­cess­ful pre­ven­tion services.

Webi­nar details

What: Fam­i­ly First Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices: Con­duct­ing a Fis­cal Analysis

When: Wednes­day, July 22, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET

The webi­nar is part of the Lead­ing With Evi­dence series, which focus­es on how child wel­fare lead­ers, researchers and pro­gram devel­op­ers can work togeth­er to lever­age the use of evi­dence in the child wel­fare field.

Pan­elists include:

• Suzanne Barnard (mod­er­a­tor), direc­tor of the Casey Foun­da­tion’s Evi­dence-Based Prac­tice Group,
• Mar­garet Fly­nn-Khan, Part­ner, Main­spring Con­sult­ing, and
• Ros­aline Tupou, Child Wel­fare Pro­gram Devel­op­ment Admin­is­tra­tor from the Hawaii Depart­ment of Human Services.

View a webi­nar on devel­op­ing a pre­ven­tive prac­tice mod­el for Fam­i­ly First