Child Welfare Professionals: Stages of Interviewing and Placement Process, Exams of Law

Download Child Welfare Professionals: Stages of Interviewing and Placement Process and more Exams Law in PDF only on Docsity! Placement specialty examination 2024 1. Order of Juvenile court hearings - 1. Temporary Custody / Shelter Care Heating 2. Adjudication Hearing 3. Dispositional Hearing 4. Permanency Planning hearings 5. Termination Hearing 6. but anytime. Status and Progress Hearings 7. Child welfare professionals as change agents help to - help families to identify their own problems and help families to recognize their strengths 8. 4 Stages of Interviewing - -social 9. -problem definition/needs identification 10. -focus 11. -closure 12.Positive reframing - a cognitive-behavioral technique involving turning negative messages into positive ones 13.solution-focused questions - help the client picture a preferred alternate future 14.order of placement for a child: - 1) with a non-custodial parent 15.2) with siblings in care 16.3) with other relatives 17.4) with foster caregiver 18.child and family team meetings - frequent meetings with families and those involved with serving families are required to plan, assess programs, and decide permanency direction 19.CANS assessment - gathers information about the child, not the services they need 20.Dual mandate - Protecting children and supporting families 21.4 types of supervision - 1. Educational: directed toward helping staff learn what they need to know to carry out their job responsibilities; 22.2. Supportive: directed toward creating a positive psychological and physical climate for staff; 23.3. Administrative: focuses on job performance and how it is related to the agency's mission; 24.4. Clinical: directed toward clinical interventions. 25.Steps of a placement planning case - 1: The DCFS / SCR (State Central Registry) is called by a mandated reporter 26.2: DCP opens the case or CPI 27.3: Investigation occurs 28.4: DCP attempts to keep the family reunified 29.5: Protective Custody (PC) if taken 30.6: The DCP worker prior to placement takes the child(ren) for a Health Works Screen 31.7: CAPU (Case assignment Unit) 32.8: TC (temporary custody) hearing occurs also called the shelter care hearing 33.9: Handoff from DCP (department of Child Protection) also referred to as CPI (Child 34.Protection Investigator) to the placement worker (between DCP worker and agency) 35.10: Placement supervisor assigns case to the placement caseworker. 36.11: Transitional visit between the CPI and the Assigned Placement agency (in the home of the parent where the DFCS worker is transferring the case to the home) 37.12: First family meeting (this is not the CFTM) this occurs at 48 hours from case assignment 38.13: First Parent / Child visit at 48 hours from PC (Protective Custody) 39.14: Parent / Child visitation plan is filed in court at 10 days from PC 40.15: The assigned placement worker or the foster parent takes the child(ren) for a Comprehensive Health Works exam at 21 days 41.16: Completion of the IA (Integrated Assessment) at 35 days (in this we are looking for drug abuse, other abuse is a clinical screening so that we can develop service plan) 42.17: CFS 497 Service plan is completed at 40 days (can be 40-45 days bc it needs to be filed in court) 43.Fictive kin - someone who becomes accepted as part of a family of the child to which he or she has no blood relation 44.Relative / HMR placement - Home of a relative, place the child in the home of a family relative, this includes godparents 77.Risk assessment CERAP - Done to the parent's home when children are returning home to assess safety vs risk. It provides a basis for making decisions regarding the ongoing needs of the family. 78.Child and Adolescent Needs Assessment CANS - DCP does that when a case comes and the caseworker does one too 79. -Family based assessment; completed for the entire family to assess areas of needs and areas of strengths 80. -Global assessment-the highest rating for the one individual is the score for the entire family. 81. -Includes all subjects of the investigation or case members 82. -24 items are assessed 83. -DCP created the initial risk assessment for all indicated cases 84. -New CANS is completed every 6 months prior to the ACR 85. Integrated Assessment IA - The clinical assessor of DCFS and is done with the case worker to assess the family. Prepared after interviewing observations, use of assessment tools and reviewing documents that are part of the assessment process. includes information collected, analysis of the information, conclusions drawn and decisions made for recommended services. It takes into account family strengths, parent/child relationships, family history and the well-being of children. 86.Which of these documents would your use to support reunification? - 1. CANS 87.2. Recovery Matrix 88.3. SAF checklist 89.4. Progress notes 90.5. Parent - Child visitation notes 91.6. Service plan evaluations 92.Criteria for Kin Gap - 1. The child must be removed from the home through a judicial determination or a voluntary placement with DCFS. 93.2. Adoption and return home are ruled out. 94.3. The HMR relative home must be licensed for at least 6 months 95.4. Child needs to have been placed in the home for at least 6 months 96.5. If the child is 14 or older they have been consulted on the plan 97.6. Siblings of children placed are also eligible for Kin Gap 98.7. Youth 14 years or older living with a licensed non relative 99.8. With approval may also be eligible for subsidy services (day care, college scholarships, legal fees and post adoption services) 100. 9. Provides a subsidy to move to guardianship 101. What is most likely to cause trauma for a child? - Removal of a house, foster care in itself is a trauma 102. Who are eligible for DCFS services? - You have to be referred by the hotline, need to be under 17 if you are child, and you need to have an allegation of abuse and neglect. 103. What is Rule 431? - A confidentiality 104. Should CANTS and LEADS be shared at case handoff? - yes 105. What happens to visits after a goal is changed from return home to sub. care? - 106. Should visit be delayed or taken away of a parent is not complying or competing services? - Visits can't be used as punishment. 107. Do Genograms identify community supports? - no, they identify family relationships and support, as well as health and other commonalities between generations 108. Would a CERAP be done prior to unsupervised visits? - Yes 109. Who are and what are you assessing when you complete a CERAP? - Structured approach to decisions making designed to guide, support, and document professional judgement in situations in which children are potentially in danger immediately or in the near future. Guides development and implementation of any actions that may be needed to immediately protect a child. An instrument to document findings decision-making and actions. 110. What is the life span approach when dealing with 60 + caregivers? - - Recognizes that older caregivers will experience physical or cognitive changes as they age, how does that compare to the child's age? 111. -Normal events should be anticipated and planned for in advance 112. -We assess the older caregiver: Health, Parenting skills/history, Capability to perform everyday tasks, Extended support, Long term care plan for child and caregiver, Back-up plan. 113. -Comparing age of child with caregiver as it progresses. 114. -Prior to finalization of an adoption or guardianship arrangement the following must be completed: 60+ Checklist, Medical Evaluation of an adult (CFS-604), Authorization for Background Check (CFS-718), CANTS 48 (Background Check on Back Up Provider), SERVICES 115. If a child cannot be adopted what is the next best goal? - guardianship 116. Is a goal of independence considered permanency? - yes. 117. What is an outcome statement? - -Something that you want to see happening, not something that should be done to reach the goal (aka action guidelines) 118. -Outcomes are based on the initial Safety Threats and the Integrated Assessment and other Recommendations 119. -Should never be written as the completion of a service - i.e. completion of parenting classes; rather what we want to see improved or changed 120. Can parents with developmental disabilities parent? - Yes, they may need more support but they can parent. 121. What is the time frame you must document? - In every single act of the case. 122. What hearing does the judge hear progress on the goal? - Progress hearings 123. Can case workers provide therapy? - No 124. What is shared parenting? - form of engagement that links parents and caregivers in the development of an 125. actual partnership focused on the well-being of the child. Could be between foster parents and birth parents. 126. When a parent attends a service is that considered an out come? - Depending on how it is in the service plan. The outcome may be that, but if not, that would be one step of the outcome that we want from parents. 127. Is a licensing work considered a placement worker? - no 128. Before taking PC the DCP worker should look for an consider placement with who? - adult relative, or other parent not involve in the case 129. Gomez vs. Johnson - Requires DCFS and the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) to work together regarding information and placement planning for DCFS wards who have been declared delinquent and are confined in juvenile correctional facilities in IL. DCFS and DOC staff are required to confer on a regular basis and exchange information regarding DCFS ward. 130. Hill vs. Erikson - -Requires DCFS to provide adequate placements and programming for DCFS wards who are pregnant and/or parenting. 131. -Appoint full-time teen parent coordinators. 132. -Consult with quality assurance. ACR units and training units regarding pregnant or parenting teens.