NET Community Care
Overview
NET Community Care was created to implement the first “Community Umbrella Agency” (CUA) in the city of Philadelphia. Selected by the Department of Human Services to launch a major transformation of child welfare services, NET Community Care is committed to the goals of Philadelphia’s “Improving Outcomes for Children” initiative. We believe that positive outcomes are achieved when services are family-centered, community-based, culturally competent, integrated, timely, and accountable for results. This was and is perhaps the most significant systems change effort Philadelphia has undertaken in decades. To read more about IOC, click here. The key components or services offered at CUAs include case management, community engagement, parent cafes, team conferencing, and Community Advisory Boards (CABs).
NET Community Care was eventually awarded two IOC CUA regions and serve the 25th and 22nd police districts of Philadelphia (see map).
Districts
CUA 1 (25th Police District)
Feltonville
Hunting Park
Upper Kensington
McGuire
Fairhill
Hartranft
Franklinville
CUA 7 (22nd Police District)
North Central
Strawberry Mansion
Brewerytown
Yorktown
Francisville
Sharswood
Templetown
Vision
The NET Community Care vision is that strengthened community partnerships will further develop resources that support youth and families. Communities will improve the safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for youth and families.
Improving Outcomes for Children (IOC): One Family, One Case-Manager, One Plan
The Improving Outcomes or Children (IOC) initiative is based on the premise that positive outcomes are achieved when services are family-centered, community-based, culturally competent, integrated, timely, and accountable for results.
To accomplish this goal, required the decentralization direct DHS case management services and instead provide these services through a network of Community Umbrella Agencies (CUAs) that are based within the communities they are charged to serve.
This model is built on the belief that a community-neighborhood approach with clearly defined roles between DHS and provider staff will positively impact safety, permanency, and well-being outcomes for children, youth and families.
The four primary outcomes of IOC are:
- More children and youth maintained safely in their own homes and communities.
- More children and youth achieving timely reunification, or other permanence.
- A reduction in the use of congregate care.
- Improved child, youth, and family functioning
Family Engagement Initiative (FEI)
- 2019 CUA7 was chosen by DHS Philadelphia to help the city phase in the Family Engagement Initiative (FEI).
- Collaboration between Counties, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC)
- FEI is designed to assist in furthering collaborative efforts between the judiciary and child welfare agencies as it relates to enhance meaningful family involvement in the child welfare system.
- Core elements of FEI are Enhanced Family Finding, Crisis/Rapid Response Family Meetings, Enhanced Legal Representation.
NET Community Care Core Services and Support Departments
- Case-Management
- After Care Services
- Community Support Services (Community Engagement)
- High Risk Medical Planning Unit
- Older Youth Engagement & Advocacy Unit
- Training Unit
- Operation Department (Placement Services, Intake Unit, and Provider Relations)
- Quality Assurance Department
Youth Leadership Council
MISSION
To adopt a youth and adult partnership approach that enables young women to be recognized as partners and masters of their destinies rather than recipients of service. The core focus is to help teach young women how to advocate for themselves while receiving services AND beyond the scope of social services.
VISION
The leadership council will work with young women through a non-clinical, relationship focused approach. The vision is to build capacity through relationship building, trust, understanding, empathy, sequential goal setting and ongoing supports and meaningful community connections.
The High Risk Medical-Planning & Community Wellbeing Department
WHY
- The High Risk Medical – Planning (HRM-P) and Community Wellbeing Department was created to increase the CUA’s ability to keep medically vulnerable children safe in their own homes.
- The HRM-P & Community Wellbeing Department is to ensure that trained medical professionals are available to service our most vulnerable population of children, track, collect and synthesize medical information for all children and to educate parents, staff and the communities serviced by NCC.
- Department will provide direct interventive services, specific to children receiving In-Home safety services who are categorized as medically fragile or diagnosed with a medical complexity.
WHAT
- Direct HRM-P Intervention Services (In-Home Safety Services)
- CUA Wide Medical Record Keeping
- CUA Wide and Community Educational Programs and Trainings
- Infuse fulltime Registered Nurse and Licensed Practical Nurses into the Program
- Work collaboratively with NET Foster Care to service shared medically complex cases specific to NCC CUAs
Board of Directors
Years of Service : 10
NorthEast Treatment Centers
7520 State Road Philadelphia, PA 19136
(215) 850-6158
Years of Service: 10
Copper Health System
1 Federal Street Suite NW400A Camden, NJ 08103
(856) 382-6502
(856) 382-6549 (fax)
Years of Service: 1
Esperanza Charter School
4261 N. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19140
(215) 203-2030
Years of Service: 10
Shalom Incorporated
7415 Boyer Street Philadelphia, PA 19119
(215) 248-0985
(215) 990-4534 (cell)
Years of Service: 6
City Council of Philadelphia
402 City Hall Philadelphia, PA 19107
bonita.cummings@phila.gov
Years of Service: 5
NET Treatment Services – Executive Director
7520 State Road Philadelphia, PA 19136
215-451-7000
Year of Service: 2
District Office Manager-2nd Senatorial District
Senator Christine M. Tartaglione-Democratic Whip
5321 Oxford Ave Philadelphia PA 19124
215-533-0440 (office)
215-560-2627 (fax)
wilbur.childs@pasenate.com
Years of Service: 1
Grants Manager
Division of Maternal, Child and Family Health Philadelphia Department of Public Health
1101 Markey Street, 9th Floor
215-685-5232
Karla.Eyre@phila.gov