A Report for the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet

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The State of Florida's Child

• A Report for the Florida Children and Youth
  Cabinet

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Responds to Cabinet strategic plan

• Cabinet Goals

• Report

• Goal 1 Promote increased efficiency and improved
  service delivery by all governmental agencies
  that provide services for children, youth and
  their families
• 1a. Develop and implement a shared and cohesive
  vision for child and youth outcomes across state
  agencies, departments and programs
• Goal 5 Build, allocate and align sufficient
  resources and functions to meet the goals set
  forth by the Children and Youth Cabinet.
• 5c Identify gaps and resources required to meet
  the health, safety, educational and support needs
  of children and their families.

• Status of Floridas children concurrent with
  inception of Cabinet
• Outcomes accountability process
• Strategies that work to improve outcomes
• Recommendations for creating shared vision,
  improved outcomes and aligning resources

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Aligns with Cabinets vision

• Every Florida child deserves
• to be healthy
• to have quality early learning experiences
• a stable and nurturing family
• to live in safe and supportive communities.

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Every Florida child deserves to be healthy
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Every Florida child deserves to have quality
early learning experiences
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Every Florida child deserves a stable and
nurturing family
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Every Florida child deserves to live in a safe
and supportive community
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Floridas performance

• Not so good

• Not so bad

• Low birth weight babies
• 36 _at_ 8.7
• Children under 18 without health insurance
• 48 _at_ 19
• Children in low-income housing where housing
  costs exceed 30 of income
• 41 _at_ 72
• Teens who are high school dropouts
• 43 _at_ 9

• Young children who complete the basic series of
  immunizations
• 15 _at_ 85
• Children under 6 in foster care who are placed in
  a permanent home within 12 months
• 10 _at_ 85
• Fourth-graders who scored at or above proficient
  reading level
• 23 _at_ 34
• Children under age 6 with parents in the labor
  force
• 19 _at_ 9

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Florida 35th in the nation on key child
well-being indicators
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Strategies for improving outcomes

• Prevention orientation
• Holistic approach
• Data-driven and evidence-based practices and
  programs
• Integrated service approach
• Family supportive policies
• Flexible fiscal policies that promote integration
  of quality services
• Investing early for a high rate of return
• Accountability for results

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Improving outcomes
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Recommendations

• Adopt an outcomes accountability process
• Identify and adopt a prioritized set of
  indicators to be used as a roadmap for improving
  the lives of Floridas children
• Discuss and adopt strategies for financing an
  agenda to improve outcomes for children and
  families aligning state expenditures for children
  to outcomes adopted by the Cabinet

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Recommendations

• Determine performance measures that allow state
  agencies to articulate and monitor their
  participation programmatically in improving
  results on the prioritized indicators
• Develop and implement cross-agency action plans
• Determine where gaps and inconsistencies occur
  and develops ways to address them
• Establish a process for ongoing monitoring and
  updating of progress

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If not us, who?

• If not now, when?