The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network –

SWAN MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU

Let’s Start With Some History

October 1992

SWAN Introduced as Casey

AdministrationInitiative…

October 1992

SWAN was created to: Increase adoptions Provide adoption services

where they didn’t exist

Fiscal Year 94-95

17 counties participated……and spent

a total of $167,000

7/1/94 to 6/30/95

7/1/94 to 6/30/95Key

Fiscal Year 95-96

Performance-basedStandardized units of service Dollars based on

affiliate capacity

GROWTH of a NETWORK

Fiscal Year # of Counties SWAN Dollars

95-96 25 $1,226,500

96-97 36 $1,369,625

97-98 42 $3,650,000

98-99 42 $5,064,200

99-00 51 $6,382,250

Fiscal Year 96-99

Released First Help Manual

Adoption Legal Services Project began

in Allegheny County

Introduced SWAN Helpline

Nurturing the Network

Six Key Missions Direct Practice in SWAN

Mission One

Every child in foster care deserves to achieve permanency in a timely manner

Mission Two

Every child with a goal of adoption deserves a permanent family

Mission Three

County agencies must be supported to prioritize

and provide permanency services

Mission Four

Delays in achieving permanency must not be due to:

RaceCulture

AgeGeography

Ability Case priority level

Mission Five

Permanent families must be developed for every waiting

child

Mission Six

Resource families who step forward to provide

“Continuum of Care” to children in child welfare

system must be supported to remain intact

Fiscal Year 00-01

Contract awarded to Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries

in partnership with Family Design Resources

Fiscal Year 00-01

Theme of Diakon/FDR’s response was “Capacity-Building”

and the Network grew…

SWAN’s Dollars and Services Increased

Fiscal Year # Of Counties SWAN Dollars

00-01 50 $6,987,175

01-02 52 $7,157,525

02-03 53 $8,583,075

03-04 56 $11,237,500

04-05 59 $15,558,250

and INCREASED…

Fiscal Year # Of Counties SWAN Dollars

05-06 61 $13,164,750

06-07 63 $10,121,750

07-08 58 $9,018,500

08-09 63 $27,000,000

09-10 66 $31,000,000 allocated

Fiscal Years 03-09 SWAN Bulletin revised All permanency goals served by

SWAN LSI program expanded Focused on Older Youth/Partnership

with IL

Let’s Talk about Permanency

…SWA(P)N

We all share a piece of the pie

ROLES: Who does what?

SWAN affiliates Non-SWAN providers

How can you use SWAN’s Resources?

SWAN Order FormSubcontracting SupportTraining ResourcesWeb siteWarmline

Subcontracting

Mentoring Guidelines Technical Assistance Support

TRAINING RESOURCES

Child Profile Child Preparation Post-Permanency services Regional, Quarterly, Statewide meetings

Web site

www.diakon-swan.org

WARMLINE

1-888-793-2512, OPTION 2 LSI section of Web site

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