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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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