Safety Planning
The Impending Danger Threshold Criteria
Observable
Out of Control
Vulnerable Child
Imminent
Severe
Determines if there is impending danger (safe or unsafe child/ren) and whether ongoing case management child protective intervention is required
What is the purpose of a family functioning assessment for information collection?
• Can be from any source including an anonymous source.
• Can be received via phone or fax.
• Can be received 24-hours day.
• Represents an expression of concern from the community.
What is a hotline report?
Refers to a child being in a continuous state of danger due to caregiver behaviors, attitudes, motives, emotions and/or situations posing a specific threat of severe harm to a child
What is Impending Danger?
As a standard of practice, this option should be used as a "last resort" and a consult is needed with a supervisor
What is "other"?
When a confidential safety plan is required in addition to the initial safety plan
What is in investigations where there is Intimate Partner Violence?
The initial assessment completed by the protective investigator after commencement
What is the Present Danger Assessment (PDA)?
Where the information gathering process is initiated
What is the hotline (1800 96-Abuse)?
The point at which a negative condition goes beyond being concerning and becomes dangerous to a child’s safety.
What is the danger threshold?
1. Physical health
2. Development (Physical as well as social-emotional)
3. Temperament
4. Intellectual functioning
5. Behavior
6. Ability to communicate
7. Self-control
8. Educational performance
9. Peer relations
10.Behaviors that seem to provoke parent/caregiver reaction/behavior
11.Activities with family and others
What is the child functioning domain?
Five (5) independent decisions about the caregiver’s ability to provide sufficient protection for a child in their home.
What is the safety analysis criteria or questions?
You must still complete this even if you have determined that there is a present danger threat in the home.
What is the Family Functioning Assessment for Information Collection (FFAI)?
The two exceptions to the time requirement to have a FFAI completed
What are investigations that are patently unfounded or a false report?
Refers to a child being in a continuous state of danger due to caregiver behaviors, attitudes, motives, emotions and/or situations posing a specific threat of severe harm to a child.
Is often not immediately apparent and may not be active and threatening child safety upon initial contact with a family.
What is Impending Danger?
Generally, there needs to be sufficient information in this area to assess caregiver protective capacities?
What is the adult functioning domain?
If at any point during the safety planning process the CPI restricts a parent's access to their child it is considered...
What is a shelter or a separation as a safety action on the safety plan?
When the information gathered paints a clear picture of the day to day functioning of the family
What is sufficient information?
Finding used when a preponderance of the credible evidence results in a determination that the specific harm or threat of harm was the result of abuse, abandonment or neglect. This means the greater weight of the evidence (above 50%) supports maltreatment occurred.
What is "verified"?
• is dependent on others for protection
• is exposed to circumstances that she or he is powerless to manage,
• is susceptible, accessible, and available to a threatening person and/or persons in authority over them.
What is vulnerable child?
A specific action, activity, performance that is consistent with and results in protective vigilance.
What is behavioral protective capacity?
When the CPI determines an out of home plan is needed to manage the danger threat they must advise the parents of these
What are conditions for return?
The timeframe the CPI has to complete the FFAI from the time present danger is identified
What is 14 days?
DCF’s way of taking responsibility for child protection, is not the caretakers’ responsibility; they are the agency’s, as a system, responsibility
What are safety plans?
Personal qualities and protective characteristics in how the parent thinks, feels and acts that contribute to vigilant child protection.
What are Caregiver Protective Capacities (CPCs)?
Danger threats + diminished CPCs + Vulnerable child (ren) =
What is the danger threat description?