Culturally Informed Practice
The totality of learned behaviors.
What is Culture?
A pictorial representation of family connections.
What is an Ecomap?
Decisions are made based on this person's sense of time and sense of urgency.
Who is the child's?
This hearing occurs within 48 hours, excluding weekends and holidays, after children are taken into protective custody.
What are Temporary Custody or Shelter Care Hearings?
The convictions, expectations, faith, hopes and assurances people have about various aspects of life.
What are Beliefs?
A visual, inter-generational presentation of the family, like a family tree.
What is a genogram?
This type of decision making requires intensive involvement of family teams comprised of the parents, children, foster parents or other caregivers, child welfare professionals, extended family members and others involved with the family.
What is Shared Decision Making?
This is the hearing that occurs within 30 days of the Adjudication Hearing and there is testimony from the caseworker, the judge reviews reports and reviews evidence.
What is the Dispositional Hearing?
Beliefs and qualities that persons hold in esteem or are of significance and worth in their lives.
What are Values?
A global assessment so that the highest score for one factor as it pertains to a specific child/adult int he home is applied to the entire family.
What is a Risk Assessment?
This is a contract between the family and the agency.
What is a Service Plan?
These are the 3 C's of Admonishment.
What are Cooperate, Comply and Correct?
Cultural Competence is defined as having these four levels.
What are attitude, knowledge, skills and reflection.
This is the first stage in the assessment process and involves an ongoing, dynamic task that begins at the time of the first call or referral and continues until the case is closed.
What is Information Gathering?
Return Home within 12 Months is an example of this.
What is a Permanency Goal?
This hearing is the trial and occurs within 90 days after the temporary custody hearing.
What is the Adjudication Hearing?
Ideas, beliefs, predictions, suspicions and inferences about various aspects of life.
What are Assumptions?
There are 4 underlying conditions that may negatively impact a parent's ability to meet their child's needs.
What are Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence, Parental Mental Illness and Parental Developmental Disabilities?
This is the process in which DCFS or a POS (purchase of service) agency will make reasonable efforts to return children home within nine months after the children's placement in substitute care.
What is Concurrent Planning?
A minor 14 years old or older can receive a KinGap subsidy if placed with a licensed non-relative caregiver. True or False.
What is True?
This was designed to address some of the leading causes of injuries and deaths.
What is the Home Safety Checklist?
Once the goal has been established, this is how to achieve the goal.
What is an Outcome?
This is the level of evidence required at the Adjudication Hearing.
What is Preponderance of the Evidence?
The capacity of a parent to carry out parenting responsibilities, the capacity to be aware of and respond to the child's physical needs and provide a safe environment, the capacity to love and invest emotionally in the child are all examples of this.
What are Minimum Parenting Capacities.
What is an Action Step?
This hearing must be held within 12 months of temporary custody being taken and at least every six months after that. Service plans are reviewed, the Court hears evidence about efforts and considers the best interest of the children.
What are Permanency Hearings?
This is the matrix that is completed if a parent has been identified as needing Alcohol and Other Drug (AODA) intervention.
What is the Recovery Matrix?
This meeting is required for placement cases every six months by DCFS policy and procedure. It's a review of the progress toward achieving the outcomes defined in the service plan, discuss barriers, determine if services are appropriate, whether the permanency goal has been acheived, what objectives should be established for the next six months.
What is the Administrative Case Review?
This is the staff that is conducted to determine the array and intensity of services needed for a child or youth whose current placement is threatened with disruption or whose care cannot be provided for in their current environment.
What is a Clinical Intervention for Placement Preservation (CIPP)?
The involuntary nature of the child welfare professional/client relationship often limits options available to clients, but does not eliminate their right to this.
What is Self-Determination?
This is when child welfare professionals discuss the nature and possible consequences of the intervention with clients, the clients can make this.
What is Informed Consent?