Unit Framework

The unit was intentionally and purposefully created and is grounded in a foundational framework that includes:

• A greater emphasis on keeping children within their family/kin network, rather than placing them with non-relative providers.
   
• Improving practice across the child welfare continuum, including safety and prevention, placement, and permanency.
   
• Ensuring families are given opportunities to ensure the safety of their children before removing them from their homes, in instances not including egregious harm.
   
• Improved access to community-based, in-home, and individualized services for children and families.
   
• Increased community engagement and blended decision making.
   
• Resource provision for communities to deliver needed services for children and families.
   
• Targeted systemic and practice interventions based on case reviews conducted with a cultural and equity lens.
   
• Targeted data-informed practice and policy development.
   
• Collaborative systemic partnership and strategic planning.