Outcomes
2010 Client Outcomes Overview
FamilyWorks
UCAN’s FamilyWorks program focuses on ensuring that families achieve economic and social self-sufficiency. It is an on-site case management program to assess, support and transition families to self-sufficiency with a strong emphasis on workforce development, involvement in communities, and overall family stability in selected Chicago housing projects.
Exceeded our goals:
225 residents completed Employment Skills Training
201 residents completed Financial Literacy Workshops
122 youth jobs were secured
311 youth focused activities were completed
Met our goal:
100 residents maintained stable housing
262 residents were employed; 186 transitional jobs & 76 permanent jobs
Goals partially met:
We did not meet our targets for residents passing the GED
Clinical & Counseling Services (CCS)
CCS provides outpatient therapy to people who have experienced trauma. Working with youth, adults and families in a variety of settings, CCS is prepared to help clients address complex issues including abuse, neglect, separation & loss and domestic violence.
Goals partially met:
An average of 63% (with a high of 78%) of our clients were evaluated as achieving a minimum amount of treatment plan goals.
The number of clients that successfully discharged from the program increased by 11%
31% of the clients that completed treatment had an increase of at least 5 points in their Global Assessment Functioning score
Professional Foster Parenting Program
The primary goal of foster care is to restore children safely to their families; foster parents play an essential function in helping the child and parents maintain their family bond during the period of separation. If a child cannot return home, foster parents may provide a permanent home.
Met our goal:
29% of our foster youth living with relatives or traditional foster care achieved permanent placements
Goals partially met:
70% of foster care youth age 14 and older that have been assessed are making progress in their identified areas related to the development of life skills
16% of foster care youth in specialized homes achieved permanent placements
Transitional Teen Services
Transitional Teen Services (TTS) work exclusively with older youth in DCFS care, providing all the services and support necessary to successfully launch these youth into independent adulthood.
Met our goals:
65% of the youth in our Partners in Parenting (PIP) program were participating in an educational/vocational program and/or employment. Note: this is a highly difficult to engage population, which is reflected in this goal.
76% of clients in Transitional Living Program (TLP) were in their final living arrangement within 3 months of emancipating
Reduced the number of subsequent hotline calls regarding our youth parents to 13%
Goals partially met:
84% of our Transitional Living Program youth were participating in an educational/vocational program and/or employment
86% of our Independent Living (ILA) youth were participating in an educational/vocational program and/or employment
88% of ILA clients were in their final living arrangement within 3 months of emancipating
High School to College (H2C)
H2C is designed to improve the academic skills of adolescents currently in DCFS care. Students in 8th-12th grade attending Chicago Public Schools are helped with their goal of attending/graduating from high school and/or entering post-secondary education.
Exceeded goal:
86% of H2C students met the 2.0 GPA requirement
Met our goal:
90% of the H2C students missed less than 10 days of school per semester
Goal not met:
The expected number of necessary student correction plans did not decrease as projected
UCAN Academy
UCAN Academy is an innovative first through twelfth grade year-round therapeutic day school. A special education curriculum is used by experienced staff to help students who have experienced difficulties in previous school settings and who benefit from a smaller, more individualized classroom setting.
Met our goal:
10% of students will make significant progress in order to be referred back into a non-therapeutic day school
Goals partially met:
The elementary school attendance rate did not stabilize at 85%, but vacillated between 74% and 83%
The high school attendance rate did not stabilize at 75%, but vacillated between 69% and 73%
U-LEAD
U-LEAD is UCAN’s Leadership, Education, Advocacy & Development umbrella program that provides a variety of youth development and violence prevention programming, creating innovative solutions for at-risk populations.
Goal partially met:
47% of the youth participating in U-LEAD programs reported an increase in developmental assets as measured by the Developmental Assets Profile
Family Based Services
A variety of programs focused at maintaining the family as a unit and avoiding the disruption that threatens the family’s ability to meet or protect the needs of it members.
Met our goals:
80% of clients successfully achieved their service plan objective by discharge
93% of the children in the program remained with their families at the time of discharge, avoiding going into the child welfare system
90% of parents of High Risk Infants transported to the hospital or to medical services increased their capacity to meet their child’s needs
Goal partially met:
98% of children remained in their families in a safe environment
Goal not met:
We did not achieve the goal of 90% of the parents in our High Risk Infants program feeling that they increased their coping capacity as parents because the program is too short
Therapeutic Youth Home
UCAN’s Therapeutic Youth Home provides a structured, stable and therapeutic living arrangement for children in DCFS care in order to prepare youth to transition and live successfully in a less structured, more home-like setting. This is done through individualized treatment that allows them to begin to heal from their trauma and abuse, and become empowered to develop positive coping and living skills.
Modified our goal
It became necessary to modify our goal to reduce the number of restraints as it appears as if the current method utilized (prone restraint) will no longer be utilized by IDCFS. Therefore this goal focused instead on the research, training of trainers and the development of a roll out plan for a new, supine method of restraint. Roll out is currently underway.
Met our goal
Over 87% of the youth enrolled in treatment were actively engaged in the treatment process
Partially met
Over 21% of the clients remained in a positive discharge setting for at least 90 days after the completion of treatment
Goals not met
Our goal of increasing school attendance to 85% for all clients was not met as the formal tracking system did not occur as initially planned