SSAC/Response, Recovery, and Innovation Committee Agenda and Minutes - 07/27/22

AGENDA

July 27, 2022; 1:30 PM

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  1. Welcome and Introductions
  2. Public Participation
  3. Refine Charge Statement
    1. The Committees of the Social Services Advisory Council (SSAC) will identify shared priorities related to the coordination, improvement, and innovation of Illinois Department of Human Services offices and services. Specifically, The Response, Recovery, and Innovation Committee will:
      1. Identify the significant challenges and collective trauma faced by Illinoisans during the COVID-19 pandemic, and collaborate on solutions with IDHS, SSAC colleagues, and policymakers.
        1. Develop an action plan to address COVID dollars going offline. An assessment to determine if and what type of infrastructure was developed and how to sustain it.
      2. Incorporate best practices from community organizations and other States and create pathways to implement the evidence-based programming along with fidelity to the models.
      3. Build upon communications plans used during emergencies, to notify relevant clients, stakeholders, policymakers, etc.
      4. Identify areas in the Department - service, quality, innovation - that can be improved, and recommend proposed solutions
      5. Create a working group to advance the "One Stop Shop" concept
      6. Establish improvement goals and identify possible strategies to meet those goals
      7. Recommend person-centered quality measures, performance indicators, and evaluation methods
      8. Recommend new and/or changes to rules, policies, programs, and initiatives
      9. Raise equity, racial justice, diversity, and inclusion issues of concern to the leadership team of IDHS
      10. Emergency response plans (local / county) - identify how partners receive information and make recommendations for improvement
  4. Role / Purpose of Committee
    1. Common priorities from February SSAC meeting
      1. Investment, support, and expansion of community-based services/orgs/partners
      2. Competitive employment
      3. Enhanced technologies
      4. Build out crisis care continuum to close gaps
      5. Elevate the role of those with lived expertise
      6. Person centered services
      7. Prioritizing at-risk/minority communities/stakeholders
      8. Independent living solutions
      9. Telehealth
      10. Racial equity - training
      11. Feedback loop
      12. Staff retention
      13. Wages
    2. Common challenges from February SSAC meeting
      1. Staffing crisis-address what positions need to be licensed and certified.
      2. Increased demand
      3. Capacity
      4. COVID - uncertainty of timing, students in schools being sent home, virtual site visits
  5. Selection of Committee Chair
  6. IDHS Support Staff
  7. Future Objectives 
  8. Housekeeping
  9. Adjournment

*If you would like to submit a public comment, please email your comment to Katlyn.Smith@Illinois.gov by 8:00 AM, Wednesday, July 27, 2022.