Standards
Child(ren) complete this privately with their worker EVERY 30 days and during an investigation either in their home or in another setting; Non-verbal children are directly observed in their own home environment and particularly as they interact with their parent/caregiver.
What is a Private Interview?
This safety designation assesses risk to be too high for the children to remain in the home with less intrusive measures; to mitigate risk, some or all children are placed with an alternative caregiver.
What is Unsafe?
During this assessment, it can be the first time a child is interviewed privately about safety and risks identified in a referral or observed in the home with the parent/caregiver.
What is a Safety Assessment?
This safety designation assesses the identified safety risks as being mitigated with the children remaining with the primary caregiver with additional in-home caregiving support/safety plan.
What is Safe With Intervention?
This process purifies oneself, objects or spaces using sacred herbs.
What is a Smudge?
This assesses the present conditions, the danger resulting from those conditions and the interventions currently needed to protect the child.
What is a Safety Assessment?
These documents are completed by the FWW (or CM) prior to or on the date a Kinship Agreement begins.
What are the first 5 Steps?
BONUS: Outline each of these steps.
Best practice recommends all members of a household be privately interviewed upon initial investigation into protection concerns. These two parties MUST be interviewed at initial contact following a referral alleging maltreatment.
Who are the primary caregiver and the child subject to the referral?
Every ______ the FWW meets with the caregiver and Shared Parent to review the terms of the initial SPA.
What is 30 days?
All involved workers discuss updates, current planning and seek further recommendations for case management from the child and family's First Nation.
What is a Mikinaak Case Review?
For example: the floor; a drawer; a playpen; a closet; a crib with fun stuffies, safety bumpers and comforter.
What is NOT Safe Sleeping?
BONUS: What is Safe Sleeping?
Kinship Services is not a long-term service and should be completed within this time frame.
What is 90 days?
Due to age or development these observed markers are documented in lieu of a verbal interview.
What are Developmental Milestones?
This referral is entered on the identified Shared Parent's profile when an SPA is developed and ____ are attached.
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What is a 12-1C and Internal and External Fast Track records?
For example: The worker seeks meaningful insight and perspective into the family dynamic, impacting factors to a reported or verified concern, natural support systems, traditional practices and programs, and intervention/safety plans from the child and family's community.
What is First Nation Consultation?
Realistic, clear and measurable goals are developed “with the family within the context of a family centered conference”; the worker facilitates the conference and “invites the child [where age appropriate], family and their chosen circle of support”; timelines, persons responsible and level of contact are identified.
What is a Service Plan?
This can be paid to an adult who is temporarily caring for a child who is not their own, if the child is in financial need. The child must live with the adult and the adult cannot have a legal obligation to support the child.
What is Ontario Works Temporary Care Assistance?
For example: "How was your day?"; "What are you playing on your ipad?"; "Looks like fun, hope you have a good week."
OR
The worker visited with the child, parent and First Nation Rep. The child discussed their day at school. The parent discussed what was for dinner. The First Nation provided a calendar of community events.
What is NOT a Private interview?
This is where the FWW documents the caregiving agreement, safety parameters and any changes to the SPA both as they occur and within the identified review period
What is a 12-1 service under the Shared Parent profile?
Animkii Binesi and Migizi.
What are Dilico's spirit names?
BONUS: What do they mean?
These should be used for situations requiring significant decisions in the life of a case; clinical analysis of the level of complexity of a case will determine the type used; they promote supportive and meaningful participation from the "experts" who will support the outcomes.
What is Family-Centered Conferencing?
This closing identification reflects that a child's legal guardian/parent has clearly disclosed and agreed that to offer stability and safety to their child they wish for their child to remain in the care of their current caregiver; the parent no longer wishes to engage in service planning; the caregiver has successfully completed all the homestudy requirements.
What is a Permanency Plan?
A worker should gather the ____ and ____ of any people identified by a child/youth or parent as a safe and supportive person in their life.
What are their name(s) and contact info.
BONUS: Where can a worker document this information?
This recording is completed in the family file when an SPA has been ended.
What is a Change in Circumstance Case Review?
BONUS: At what other times does a worker complete a CIC?
These 13 First Nation communities make up the Board of Directors, responsible for setting the long-term vision for Dilico and providing guidance for operational efficiencies.
Who are Fort William, Long Lake #58, KZA (Gull Bay), Ginoogaming, Whitesand, Pic River, Pic Mobert, Pays Plat, BNA (Sandpoint), Red Rock-Lake Helen, Michipicoten, AZA (Lake Nipigon), BZA (Rocky Bay)?