What is the National Upstream Consortium?

Why Should You Join?

Offer guidance on prevention strategies and why court leadership is essential.

Provide readiness assessment and collaboration tools.

Share best practices and proven models that demonstrate impacts.

Support data collection and sharing strategies to establish baselines to measure implementation andoutcomes.

Identify ideal planning team composition and partners to engage in this work.

Ensure necessary integration and alignment with other community, child welfare and court efforts.

Identify the skills and backgrounds of facilitators to be trained and whether focus groups would informefforts.

Pre-Workshop Consulting Services to Consortium States

Schedule and conduct the Workshop in coordination with other state and national training opportunities.

Provide each Workshop participant a Facilitator Guide and electronic materials.

Support post-workshop implementation plans.

Provide ongoing assistance and strategic advice beyond the workshop.

Promote strategies to institutionalize data collection, performance measures and improved outcomes.

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Child Welfare Prevention and Intervention Train-the-Trainer Virtual Mapping Workshops

Post-Workshop Consulting Services to Consortium States

Consortium Community of Practice

What Does it Cost for Your State to Join?

How to Get Involved? To sign up and for more information, please contact Nora Sydow. If your state signs up for the National Upstream Consortium in August 2021 we hope to accommodate your state in one of the 2021 Train-the-Trainer Virtual Mapping Workshops, either during the week of October 18-22 or the week of December 6-10. A schedule of 2022 workshops will be announced early fall.

Support a strong community of practice by offering many different opportunities for peer to peer learningand ongoing education including regional and or national virtual meetings.

The National Upstream Consortium

A one-time cost for a state to join the Consortium ranges from $25,000 to $40,000 depending on the number of facilitators trained and the amount of NCSC technical assistance requested.

The National Upstream Consortium is made up of multidisciplinary state teams with court leadership. Each state will identify facilitators who will be trained to conduct local child welfare community mappings, develop prevention and intervention strategies, and promote peer-to-peer learning, based on Upstream. Upstream, guides collaborative community actions to identify and develop points of prevention and intervention within community services, the child welfare system, and the court to strengthen children and families through a proactive, holistic community-based approach.

UpstreamStrengthening Children and Families through Prevention andIntervention Strategies: A Court and Community-Based Approach Upstream provides a court and community-based approach to strengthen families that is proactive, holistic, and focuses on keeping children safely with their families.

Developed by the National Center for State Courts, Upstream brings together local stakeholders for a series of action-oriented working meetings. Using an approach informed by the Sequential Intercept Model,* stakeholders collectively map the local child welfare landscape by identifying resources and gaps in services, mapping the processes, and creating an action plan to enhance collaboration within and across systems.

Points of Prevention and Intervention

*The Sequential Intercept Model is a framework and tool used to facilitate cross-systems collaborations that reduce the risk of criminal justice system involvement among people with behavioral health needs. Please see the Sequential Intercept Model website for more information.

Court

Youth and Family Serving Agencies

Social Services and Community Partners

Healthcare and Behavioral Health Treatment

Child Welfare Services Child Welfare

Prevention and Intervention

Mapping

Child welfare intervention mapping brings together local stakeholders

to collectively:

Create a map of the child welfare landscape

Identify local resources and gaps in services

Determine priorities for change

Develop an action plan

Enhance collaboration among community partners

and across systems

Reduce risk of child welfare system involvement for

children and families

Support safe, nurturing, and permanent homes

for children

Community Services and

Supports

Coalitions, Task Forces, and Coordinating Councils

Economic Supports for

Families

Information Sharing and Care Coordination

Social Supports for Families

Data Collection, Analysis, and Sharing

Cross-Training

Healthcare Childcare and Education

Co-Located and Integrated Services

Parenting Education to Promote Healthy Child Development

Shared Funding

Youth Connections to Caring Adults

and Activities

SHARED SUCCESSES

SECONDARY PREVENTION INTERVENTION CRISIS INTERVENTION CHILD WELFARE COURT AFTERCARE

PRIMARY PREVENTION

CROSS-SYSTEMS COLLABORATION

Continuity of Needed Services

Reentry Prevention

Safety Planning

Exit Planning

Petition and Filing

Case Planning and Case Flow Management

Specialty Courts

Adjudication and Disposition

Referral

Screening

Assessment and Investigation

Safety Planning

Services and Treatment

Referral to Court

Emergency Medical Services and Acute Behavioral Health Treatment

Emergency Shelters and Housing

Domestic Violence Services

Access to Legal Advocacy and Legal Processes

Education and Skill-Building

Enhanced Healthcare

Victim-Centered Services for Children and Adult Survivors of Trauma

Supports to Lessen Harms of Abuse and Neglect Exposure

Family-Centered Treatment for Behavioral Health Needs

Elevated and In-Risk Care Coordination, Services, and Supports

July 2021