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Oregon System of Care
Advisory Council
Preliminary Findings
and Recommendations
August 2021
Artemis Consulting & Bailey Associates
Methods and Process
+ Authorized by Governor’s Office
+ Initial meeting with Council Chair and staff
+ Conducted key informant interviews: rural and urban,
young adults, youth and family members/significant
adults, public system representatives (state, county, city),
community-based providers, health professionals
+ 100% of SOCAC membership interviewed
+ 72% of SOCAC completed online demographic survey
I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.
-Simone Biles
SOCAC Accomplishments
+ Stood up and organized during a pandemic
+ Recognition of and gratitude for leadership’s consistency
+ Data dashboard is well underway
+ Efforts have been made to include youth and family voice
+ Legislative efforts to address infrastructure needs
+ Functioning subcommittees
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Commonly Held Beliefs Include…
+ There is a consistent level of pride in what has been
accomplished and clear understanding of how far there is to go
+ Council members are committed to achieving strong and
positive youth outcomes through improved service delivery
+ Youth and family are named as the most important partners in
the Council’s work
+ There is agreement on what is limiting the Council’s progress
+ At one time or another, almost everyone has felt both
empowered and powerless; consistent calls for equity
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be
a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
— Deepak Chopra
Youth/Young
Adults
Gender/Sexual
Orientation Government
Guidelines
Class/Caste State Agencies:
Systems
Power Imbalances
are Experienced
Across the Board
Providers of Services Education/Degrees
Racial/Ethnic Tribal/Sovereign
Groups Governments
Adults/Workers/Ad
ministrators
Results fall into
three categories
Structure
Process
Equity
Structure Issues and Recommendations
S1 Recommendation
System of Care
Model • Build consensus on and
commit to a single working
definition of System of Care
Lack of consensus on with structures and processes
S(s)ystem of C(c)are model. that centers equity, is
transformational, and builds on
the wisdom of youth and
familiesS2
Recommendation
Reporting Structure
Unclear for the Council, • Establish clear lines of
potentially creating communication, reporting
and accountability for ED,
constraints, difficulties and
Council staff, members, and
conflicts for the community participation
Executive Director.
• Have the ED report directly to
the Governor’s Office for 6-9
monthsRecommendation
S3
• Change the composition of the
Membership Council to include youth and families
as decision makers
Reflects interests that
sometimes lie in keeping • Listen deeply to sovereign entities,
current systems and practices people of color, and other historically
marginalized groups; Include
intact without enough multiple sovereign nations
engagement and participation
of youth and families, local • Consider a young adult as Council
councils and other affected Co-chair
groups.
• Council members must commit to full
participation and, the scope of that
participation must be clearly spelled
outS4
Recommendation
Council Meetings
Meetings are not as inclusive, • Change meeting structure
or productive as they and times to accommodate
youth and families
could/should be to sustain
full participation and
engagement. • Include those most
disproportionately affected
by systems in shaping the
Council’s agenda, decisions,
and actionsRecommendation
S5
Data • Agree on and operationalize
language and definitions
Data is complex, inaccessible,
not consistent across systems,
• Simplify and make data
and not used to drive
available to the public
decisions.
• Act on disproportionality,
outcome disparities, social
determinants of wellbeing and
other issues of equityProcess Issues and Recommendations
Recommendation
P1
Strategic Planning • Pause the current strategic
planning undertaking until the
Process Executive Director has been
hired, and then reboot an
The process seems to be inclusive and deliberate
pointed towards planning process
meeting a deliverable rather
than constructed as a
• Use the strategic planning
meaningful roadmap for the process itself to sort out Council
Council’s work. structures, processes and
equity going forwardP2
Recommendation
Local Councils
Local councils have minimal • Make useful, responsive, and
access to the SOCAC; issues sincere connections with Local
brought to the SOCAC are not Systems of Care that co-create
concrete outcomes, demonstrate
resolved; there is no
collaborative actions, and are
coordination with local visible to individual
councils; and there are no communities and the state
feedback loops.P3 Recommendation
Trust/Trustworthines
s • Commit to a decision-making
process that ensures ample time
Trust/trustworthiness is not for full discussion, feedback
universally experienced nor among system and community
demonstrated among Council partners, and is visible
members.
• Learn and practice authentic
dialogue toward consensus and
resolutionP4 Recommendation
Grants/Funding
• Commit to making no ‘outside of
the room deals’ on grant making,
A lack of clarity exists about program/staff funding or other
how funds have been and will fiscal decisions
be distributed.
• Be transparent about potential
conflicts of interestEquity Issues and Recommendations
E1 Recommendation
Disproportionality
and Disparities • Educate the Council on
indigenous sovereignty,
Youth and families of color and historical trauma, and systemic
oppression and how these shape
sovereign nations continue to human service systems
be disproportionately
represented in Oregon’s child
serving systems. • Create systemic measures of
equity accountability and tie to
fundingRecommendation
E2
Marginalization •Balance the Council’s power along
age, race, tribal, gender/sexual
orientation, lived experience
Full participation of
members has been stunted. •Require robust onboarding of all
Council members including
recurring training and dialogue on
how to share power, collective
decision-making, using conflict for
change, courageous conversations,
implicit and systemic bias, and youth
inclusivityE3 Recommendation
Diversity of
Thought and •Make space for young adults to
lead
Innovation
•Create pathways to allow for
The Council is trying to diversity of thought and cutting
answer the same old edge/innovative ideas and
questions and using the practices
same old tools.Recommendation
E4
Trauma Informed •Incorporate Trauma
Informed Practices into all
Practice Council recommendations,
policies, internal practices,
It does not appear that the strategic planning, and
Council follows trauma partnership development
informed practices.
❖Trauma Informed includes
Historical and Environmental
Trauma
❖Restorative /Transformative
Justice/HealingE5 Recommendation
ACT!
• Identify at least one significant
Actions have not been taken issue that can be worked
through a multi-layered, multi-
after bringing family and system approach with shared
youth to the table and funding, data collection and
listening to stories that have analysis, outcomes,
been repeated for accountability and learning
years/decades. alongside youth and family
partners and local councilsNext Step
September SOCAC Meeting
Facilitated Small Group Process
✓ Clarify: Intent of
Recommendations
✓ Prioritize:
Recommendations Within
Structure, Process, Equity
✓ Identify: Action Items: 2-3
Next StepsI have learned over the years that
when one's mind is made up,
this diminishes fear;
knowing what must be done
does away with fear.
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