Reenergizing, advising, and

setting the path for

improvement efforts of the

Whatcom County dependency

court through the

Table of Ten

Whatcom County Table of Ten

ReVision Meeting

1.What we do well is…

1.If we could be a State leader in one area of our practice, I think it should be…

Fishbowl

1. Conversation about the Table of Ten and its work.

2. Break – gather questions

3. Resume, adding empty chair, talking about questions.

Data Presentation for Whatcom Dependency Court

Table of Ten ReVision

April 19, 2019

Median time to outcome? If you consider all the children who exited to an outcome in a particular year, 50% of them exited to that outcome by the “median months to outcome” number. (Note: the other half of the children took longer – this measure is often expressed in “median time to outcome” to eliminate unusually long-stayers from the “average” calculation.) Ex. Of all children in Whatcom County who exited to adoption in 2017, half of them had been in care 25 months or fewer, the other half longer (blue circle below).

Yellow highlighted numbers: percentage of children exiting to that outcome in 2018, out of all children exiting care in 2018.

Court Name WhatcomEpisode Exit Year 2018

Gender (All)

Race (All)

Age At Filing (All)

Age At Discharge (All)

Month LOS

FAMLINK Episode Outcome Values (A) <15mnths (B) 15-24mnths (C) >24mnths Grand Total

Adoptions Cnt 12 27 39

% Row 0% 31% 69% 100%

% Column 0% 24% 44% 29%

Age of Majority/Emancipation Cnt 1 6 7

% Row 0% 14% 86% 100%

% Column 0% 2% 10% 5%

Deceased Cnt 1 1

% Row 0% 0% 100% 100%

% Column 0% 0% 2% 1%

Guardianships Cnt 1 4 5

% Row 0% 20% 80% 100%

% Column 0% 2% 6% 4%

Reunifications Cnt 21 32 17 70

% Row 30% 46% 24% 100%

% Column 95% 65% 27% 53%

Transfer of Custody Cnt 1 3 3 7

% Row 14% 43% 43% 100%

% Column 5% 6% 5% 5%

Extended FC Services Ending Cnt 4 4

% Row 0% 0% 100% 100%

% Column 0% 0% 6% 3%

Total Cnt 22 49 62 133

Court Name ThurstonEpisode Exit Year 2018

Gender (All)

Race (All)

Age At Filing (All)

Age At Discharge (All)

Month LOS

FAMLINK Episode Outcome Values (A) <15mnths (B) 15-24mnths (C) >24mnths Grand Total

Adoptions Cnt 3 9 21 33

% Row 9% 27% 64% 100%

% Column 8% 21% 40% 25%

Age of Majority/Emancipation Cnt 8 8

% Row 0% 0% 100% 100%

% Column 0% 0% 15% 6%

Guardianships Cnt 2 3 6 11

% Row 18% 27% 55% 100%

% Column 5% 7% 12% 8%

Reunifications Cnt 32 29 15 76

% Row 42% 38% 20% 100%

% Column 86% 67% 29% 58%

Transfer of Custody Cnt 1 1

% Row 0% 100% 0% 100%

% Column 0% 2% 0% 1%

Extended FC Services Ending Cnt 1 2 3

% Row 0% 33% 67% 100%

% Column 0% 2% 4% 2%

Total Cnt 37 43 52 132

Total % Row 28% 33% 39% 100%

Total % Column 100% 100% 100% 100%

Court Name StateEpisode Exit Year 2018

Gender (All)

Race (All)

Age At Filing (All)

Age At Discharge (All)

Month LOS

FAMLINK Episode Outcome Values (A) <15mnths (B) 15-24mnths (C) >24mnths Grand Total

Adoptions Cnt 30 269 985 1284

% Row 2% 21% 77% 100%

% Column 3% 26% 48% 31%

Age of Majority/Emancipation Cnt 15 11 137 163

% Row 9% 7% 84% 100%

% Column 1% 1% 7% 4%

Deceased Cnt 5 4 3 12

% Row 42% 33% 25% 100%

% Column 0% 0% 0% 0%

Guardianships Cnt 50 91 160 301

% Row 17% 30% 53% 100%

% Column 4% 9% 8% 7%

Reunifications Cnt 994 632 630 2256

% Row 44% 28% 28% 100%

% Column 88% 62% 31% 54%

Transfer of Custody Cnt 24 7 7 38

% Row 63% 18% 18% 100%

% Column 2% 1% 0% 1%

Extended FC Services Ending Cnt 13 6 113 132

% Row 10% 5% 86% 100%

% Column 1% 1% 6% 3%

Total Cnt 1131 1020 2035 4186

Total % Row 27% 24% 49% 100%

Total % Column 100% 100% 100% 100%

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Mason 90% 74% 60% 76% 94%

Skagit 75% 70% 65% 77% 79%

Thurston 70% 67% 77% 88% 88%

Whatcom 95% 78% 76% 80% 64%

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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Mason 95% 93% 76% 85% 84%

Skagit 83% 94% 81% 74% 95%

Thurston 87% 69% 88% 93% 95%

Whatcom 92% 94% 93% 94% 95%

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(2) First Review 6mnths

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Mason 95% 93% 83% 82% 100%

Skagit 96% 76% 85% 78% 100%

Thurston 87% 96% 91% 96% 100%

Whatcom 91% 88% 95% 92% 100%

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

100%(4) Perm Planning 12mnths

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Mason 77% 55% 75% 76% 100%

Skagit 74% 81% 67% 37% 100%

Thurston 88% 93% 87% 90% 100%

Whatcom 62% 65% 45% 50% 100%

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100%(5) Term Pet 15mnths

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Mason 27% 54% 57% 30%

Skagit 23% 31% 30% 24%

Thurston 36% 27% 26% 29%

Whatcom 21% 24% 24% 17%

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100%(7) Perm Outcome 15mnths

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Mason 36% 17% 9% 8%

Skagit 55% 69% 41% 40%

Thurston 32% 47% 44% 26%

Whatcom 61% 60% 55% 36%

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(6) Adopt 6mnths

TPR Pet. Filed or, “good cause” found, by 15 of past 22 months out-of-home care.

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Mason 3% 9% 2% 8% 4%

Skagit 10% 10% 4% 9% 7%

Thurston 5% 2% 5% 4% 3%

Whatcom 6% 4% 15% 7% 23%

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(3) Prior Dependency

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2018

Percent % DPP Filing Year

Court Name Demographic Demo Values 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Whatcom Age at Filing (1) <1 yrs 24% 30% 25% 27% 39%

(2) 1-2 yrs 21% 17% 20% 16% 11%

(3) 3-5 yrs 18% 15% 23% 17% 21%

(4) 6-11 yrs 21% 26% 23% 24% 22%

(5) 12-17 yrs 15% 12% 10% 16% 7%

(6) >17 yrs 1% 1%

Gender (1) Female 48% 46% 48% 53% 48%

(2) Male 52% 54% 52% 47% 52%

Race (1) AI/AN 7% 15% 19% 15% 27%

(2) Asian/PI 1% 1% 1%

(3) Black 4% 2% 1% 1%

(4) White 56% 59% 49% 52% 40%

(5) Hispanic 22% 11% 12% 12% 14%

(6) AI/AN-Multi 11% 7% 7% 11% 8%

(7) Black-Multi 3% 4% 10% 6% 5%

(8) Other-Multi 1% 1% 1% 3%

(9) Unknown 1%

Whatcom(520 Active

Cases - 2018)

Cont. rate dropping faster

than Caseload.

Continuances

Continuance Order Values 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

ORDER OF CONTINUANCE Continuance Cnts 641 587 676 799 402 100

Count of Cases 280 249 294 273 180 57

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