Acronyms
CASA
What is Court Appointed Special Advocate?
Reunification, adoption, and guardianships are examples of these.
What are Permanent Plans?
Represents the DCYF SW in Court
Who is the Assistant Attorney General?
SW meets with alleged child victim within intake specified timeframe to interview/assess child.
What is the Initial Face to Face (IFF)?
Office located in the 253.
What is the King South Offices?
AAG
What is Assistant Attorney General?
SWs meet and privately interview children during this monthly activity, also held 7 days after a placement change.
What is health and safety visit?
CFWS SWs submit this document to the court at least every 6 months.
What is the court report (or CFE)?
An intake that is due within 24 hours.
What is an Emergent intake?
This office is in the same building where all DCYF newhires will complete their months-long training in-person.
What is ICW/West Seattle?
SCC
What is Safe Child Consultation?
This hearing happens monthly when a child is out of home but not dependent.
What is the 30 day shelter care hearing?
An alternative to regular dependency court for parents who need access to substance use, judicial monitoring of their sobriety, and individualized services to support the family.
What is Family Treatment Court?
Character references completed on parents prior to case closure.
What are Collateral Calls?
This office began hosting CWTAP students in 2018 and is the newest CWTAP office.
What is King East/ Bellevue?
IFF
What is Initial-Face-to-Face?
During this in-person meeting, SWs case plan and help set short-term goals.
What is monthly parent contact?
This professional is the AAGs most important expert witness during a trial.
Who is a DCYF social worker?
This assessment must be complete within 60 days of receiving the intake.
What is the Investigative Assessment?
This office is located where Region 4's Centralized Services (Adoptions, Placement, Regional Administrator etc.) were previoulsy located.
What is King West?
HPSO's
What is High-Potentcy Synthetic Opiods?
This form informs a school of DCYF’s involvement with a child.
What is School Notification form?
Formal, written request by one party asking the judge to make a decision on a specific issue related to a case
What is a motion?
SWs file this document to the court to request court involvement for a non-dependent child?
What is a Dependency Petition?
Office formerly known as the Office of African American Children Services.
What is MLK?