Family-Centered Practice
focuses on helping children remain connected to their parents, extended family and others who are significant in their
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Trauma-Informed Practice
seeks to view children and families with a "trauma lens" and understand the impact of trauma on a child's development and behavior.
Strength-Based Practice
helps families identify and build on their strengths when planning services.
Definition of Trauma
event that is emotionally painful, distressful, or shocking, which often results in lasting mental and physical effects. This is the definition of interest to those of us in child welfare
Everyday Language
1. Be Strong & Flexible
2. Parents Need Friends
3. Being a Great Parent is Part Natural and Part Learned
4. We All Need Help Sometimes
5. Parents Need to Help Their Children Communicate
6. Give Your Children the Love & Respect They Need
Orphan Train Movement
placed as many as 150,000 children from eastern cities, orphans or children from poor families, withMidwest farm families. Although some of these children became integral members of these families, manychildren were valued only in terms of the labor that they could provide. Child protection was notincluded in the early concept of child welfare.
Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) 1997
Requires permanency hearings for children no later than 12 months after the date children entered foster care and no less than every 12 months as long as the children are in foster care.
Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act
that guides the day-to-day work of child professionals in Illinois is The Abused and Neglected ChildReporting Act (ANCRA). ANCRA requires the Department to receive reports of abused and neglectedchildren, to investigate these reports, and to provide services necessary to prevent further harm to children.The Act provides definitions of child abuse and neglect, lists the persons who are required to reportallegations (mandated reporters), and describes how the Department is to accept and investigate reportsand provide follow-up services.
Examples of Mandated Reporters
DCFS field personnel
Social workers
Teachers
Doctors
Etc
BH v. McDonald
Provides minimally adequate training, education and services to enable children to secure their own safety and provide for their needs.
The statutes left it up to the DCFS to develop the Rules and Procedures regarding theparameters of intervention in cases of abuse, neglect and dependency.
DCFS rules and procedures indicate what services are provided under what conditions and how to deliver these services.
Four Service Goals
- Family Preservation
- Family Reunification
- Youth Development
- Adoption or Permanency
Delegated Authority
publicly acknowledge their obligation to assume the professional responsibilities and ethical conduct accompanying that authority.
Full Disclosure
Giving families all the information about what is happening with their children and what they need to do to have them returned to their care
Fiduciary Relationships
based on trust and trustworthiness
Actual Conflicts
A child welfare professional entrusted to exercise objective judgment in the service of an agency andits clients has an interest that could interfere with the objectivity of that judgment.
Potential Conflicts
A conflict of interest is potential if there is no existing conflict, but there is some likelihood that thesituation will change such that there would be an interest which could reasonably affect future decision-making.
Apparent Conflicts
An apparent conflict of interest means that even though there may not be a potential or actual conflict aperson, unaware of the facts of the situation, might reasonably infer that a conflict exists.
Four Types of Supervision:
1. Educational - directed toward helping staff learn what they need to know to carry out job responsibilities.
2. Supportive - directed toward creating a positive psychological and physical climate for staff.
3. Administrative - focuses on job performance and how it is related to the agency's mission.
4. Clinical - directed toward clinical interventions.
Child Well-Being - Nine Domains
1. Safety
2. Physical Needs
3. Family Attachment
4. Socialization
5. Cultural & Spiritual
6.Emotional/Psychological
7. Health
8.Educational/Vocational
9. Legal
Child welfare professionals work as ___________.
change agents
Externally motivated change
Change motivated by submitting to an authority.
Internally motivated change
Change motivated by authority that lies within ourselves
Four Stages of Interviewing
Social
Problem Definition
Focus
Closure
If the child is age six or above, the staff should not observe any part of the child's body that would normally be covered by a bikini, unless the staff is of the same sex as the child.
Life-Span Approach
recognizes that some older caregivers will experience physical or cognitive changes as they age that may affect their ability to provide a healthy and safe environment for themselves and the children in their care.
Long Term Care plan is a____________
global review of the plan.
The backup plan should be
specific, in writing
60-Plus Process
recognizes the importance of designating a backup caregiver and ensuring that the backup is fulling informed about the child
Critical Decisions are to be made by __________________
your supervisor
Culture
learned behaviors. Based on values, beliefs, and assumptions derived from shared experiences, history and geographic proximity.
Values
beliefs and qualities that persons hold in esteem or are of significance and worth in their lives.
Assumptions
- ideas, beliefs, predictions, suspicions, and inferences about various aspects of life.
Beliefs
convictions, expectations, faith, hopes, and assurances people have about various aspects of life.
Four Levels of Competence
1. Attitude
2. Knowledge
3. Skills
4. Reflection
Four Stages of the Assessment Process
1. Information Gathering
2. Information Analysis
3. Drawing Conclusions
4. Decision-Making
Ecomap
Representation of family connections
Genogram
Family tree
SACWIS Risk Assessment
global assessment so that the highest score for one factor as it pertains to a specific child/adult in the home is applied to the entire family.
Home Safety Checklist
addressing leading causes of injuries and deaths. Pays special attention to preventing injuries to the most vulnerable of our children (under age five).
Service Plan
contract between the family and the agency.
Outcomes to achieves the goal and the Action Steps to reach the outcomes.
Three C's of Admonishment:
Cooperate
Comply
Correct
Shelter Care Hearings
Occur 48 hours after children are taken into protective custody.
Adjudicatory Hearings:
Occur within 90 days after shelter care hearing.
Dispositional Hearings
Occur within 30 days of adjudicatory hearings.
Permanency Hearings
Held within at least 12 months of temporary protective custody and at least every six months after.
Purpose of Intact Family Services
to provide short term VOLUNTARY services intended to make reasonable efforts to stabilize, strengthen, enhance, and preserve family life by providing services that enable children to remain safely at home [Show Less]