GPS
South Carolina has adopted a model of casework practice for Child Welfare Services called
What is GPS (Guiding Principles and Standards)
Present danger time frame
What is 0-2
Developing a successful working relationship through honesty, respect, empathy, and active listening
Door access, and Identification
What is ID Badge
To report known or suspected abuse or neglect of a child or vulnerable adult
What is the Intake Hub
We treat all individuals with dignity, educate them of their rights and responsibilities, and honor their values and culture
What is Respect
Impending Danger---Threat within 2 days-2weeks. Moderate maltreatment, no serious or moderate injury, neglect without immediate threats
What is 2-24 response time
Respect, Community Invested, Excellence, Accountability
What is Vision and Values
A print out with clients personal information that is no longer useful belongs...
What is a Shred Box
Provide temporary financial assistance to needy families with dependent children.
What is TANF
When our decisions and actions are transparent and data is utilized to improve our practice, positive outcomes for children and families are achieved.
What is Accountability
When parents can’t meet a child’s basic needs, Relatives or Fictive Kin often step in to care for the child. It can be temporary or permanent
What is Kinship Care
Creating and sustaining working teams with families, their support system, and professionals who share a common purpose, unity in effort, and a demonstrated effectiveness in problem solving towards safe case closure
What is Teaming
A Case Manager (CM) scheduled a meeting with her client, discussed ongoing issues, and made appropriate referrals. The CM and Service provider jointly came up with a plan for the client.
What is Intervening, Planning, and Teaming
A federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people.
Utilizing functional assessments to create individualized plans designed to improve family functioning and promote child safety, stability, permanency, and well-being
CM's are required to identify, locate, and engage. Must make diligent efforts to locate
What is Non-Custodial Parents
Continually monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the permanency plan, the services, and the family’s progress
What is Tracking and Adapting
The Safe Haven for Abandoned Babies Act, provides a safe option
What is Daniel's Law
Makes payments to child care providers to care for children from low-income families so their parents can work.
What is SC Voucher
Encouraging and actively assisting families and children by creating tailored plans and service arrays, providing referrals to community resources, identifying and tapping formal and informal supports, and building safety networks
What is Intervening
Guides investigations, used in Family Preservation, and Foster Care. There are six Pertinent Questions
What is Child and Family Safety Assessment Service Plan (CFASP)
The formal and informal process of gathering, synthesizing, and making meaning of information related to underlying needs and strengths to enhance family functioning and promote child safety, permanency, and well-being
What is Functional Assessment
It did not happen, if it's not written and entered
What is Dictation
The South Carolina Department of Social Services is to serve South Carolina by promoting the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and vulnerable adults, helping individuals achieve stability, and strengthening families.
What is the Mission Statement