Shared Planning Meetings
This meeting must take place according to DCYF policy whenever there is a change in placement.
What is a Family Team Decision Meeting (FTDM)?
Once a child is placed in protective custody, a court hearing must be held within this specific time frame.
What is 72 hours?
Baby gates, lock boxes, diapers, and bus tickets are examples of these.
What are concrete goods?
DCYF's standardized method for assessing child safety.
What is the Child Safety Framework?
This field instructor has flown an airplane and jumped out of an airplane.
Who is Glen?
Reunification, adoption, and guardianship are thoroughly discussed and evaluated for families during this meeting.
What is a Permanency Planning Meeting?
This hearing occurs during the 12th month post-placement (and every 12 months thereafter) for all children or youth in out-of-home care, even if reunification is the primary plan.
What is the Permanent Planning Hearing?
This service provides flexible, family-focused weekly in-home counseling and support for children and caregivers.
What is Family Preservation Services (FPS)?
This standard of service is mandated by ICWA to maintain or reunite an Indian child with their family.
What are active efforts?
This field instructor once beat a U.S. senator in a World Capitol Challenge on the radio.
Who is Brian?
The goal of this meeting is to preserve the cultural heritage of Indian children by preventing the unjust removal from their families.
What is a LICWAC?
This hearing typically occurs six months post-placement and is the parents' first opportunity to demonstrate progress to the court post-dependency.
What is the Initial Progress Review (IPR)?
Policy-required service for youth ages 15-20, which focuses on supporting them in their educational, vocational, and daily living skills.
What is the Independent Living Program (ILP)?
This internal DCYF process occurs when the social worker wants to staff the safety status of a child with Quality Practice Specialists.
What is Safe Child Consult (SCC)?
Two cats who were born in a different country live with this FI.
Who is Emma?
The goal of this meeting is to support youth in creating a safe and viable transition plan before they turn 18.
What is a 17.5 /Transition Meeting?
The Adoption and Safe Families Act requires DCYF to seek this for children who have been out of the home for 15 of the previous 22 months (with multiple exceptions).
What is Termination of Parental Rights?
Behavioral parent-training model that uses live coaching of parents and children (ages 2-to-7) together.
What is Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)?
Document created by social workers to help identify foster placements for children/youth.
What is the Child Information Placement Referral (ChIPR)?
This Field Instructor is a former rugby player.
Who is Brittany?
Post-adoption services are discussed with prospective adoptive parents during this meeting.
What is an Adoption Planning Review?
This hearing occurs 14 days post-dependency and establishes the service and placement plans for the child and family, IF they were not determined during Fact-Finding.
What is the Dispositional Hearing?
Intensive in-home service designed for families to prevent out-of-home placement, stabilize kinship placements, or reunify families after foster placement.
What is Homebuilders or Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS)?
This mandatory, interstate agreement is required to be approved before moving children in foster care across state lines.
What is the Interstate Compact for Placement of Children (ICPC)?
Which FI used to go open water swimming at Alki in the winter during lunch break?
Who is Lorena?