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CPS Investigative Process
CPS Investigative Process
- Ability to identify the criteria for sufficiency and response times for emergent and non-emergent intakes (both CPS and Risk Only).
- Ability to recognize the legal requirements and restrictions related to conducting a child protection investigation.
- Ability to conduct a child protective services investigation using our practice model, SBC.
- Ability to both make a determination of findings and assess child safety based on collected evidence from multiple sources.
- Ability to identify and use the Investigative Assessment in FamLink.
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Structured Decision Making (SDM)
Structured Decision Making (SDM)
- Ability to collect sufficient information regarding the family using SBC to encourage family engagement.
- Ability to accurately complete a Structured Decision-Making Assessment to determine the level of risk.
- Ability to use the Structured Decision-Making Assessment to inform and support service decisions and case dispositions.
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Placement Decision-Making
Placement Decision-Making
- Ability to identify the four ways by which children enter placement in our state and the implications and requirements of each.
- Ability to identify the forms required during removal and placement and their basis in policy and law.
- Ability to engage with the family to identify placement resources.
- Ability to identify the process for assessing an unlicensed home for suitability and knowledge of the ongoing requirement for relative search regardless of the child's placement.
- Ability to make placement decisions based on safety threats which can’t be controlled and/or an assessment of cumulative harm.
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Permanency Planning and Well-Being
Permanency Planning and Well-Being
- Ability to understand the impact of impermanence on children in out of home care.
- Ability to identify the permanent plans and their order of priority.
- Ability to practice Concurrent Planning.
- Ability to recognize the importance of Kinship in Permanency and Concurrent Planning.
- Ability to initiate Permanency Planning on behalf of older youth.
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Working with Care Providers
Working with Care Providers
- Ability to anticipate and respond to the possible advantages and challenges of working with licensed and unlicensed caregivers.
- Ability to recognize the various social worker actions that promote supportive relationships with care providers.
- Ability to provide basic explanations of financial reimbursement and other supports available to licensed and unlicensed caregivers.
- Ability to provide basic explanations to caregivers regarding the requirements/restrictions related to caring for a child placed by Children's Administration.
- Ability to identify unlicensed providers in FamLink, to create a Family Home Study for an unlicensed provider, and to create a Foster Care Rate Assessment.
A panel of two to four foster parents and/or relative care providers speak to social workers about their experiences and challenges interfacing with the child welfare system while supporting children in their care.
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