DCS
Through the collection of information, you "create a picture" of the pervasive functioning occurring among adults and children within the family. This "picture" represents a merging of crucial information which reveals the presence or absence of impending danger threats to child safety, vulnerable children, and caregiver protective capacities.
What is the purpose of the family functioning assessment?
Personal qualities or characteristics that contribute to vigilant child protection.
What are Caregiver Protective Capacities?
Observable, Vulnerable, Unmanaged, Severity, and Imminent
What are the conditions of the safety threshold?
Safety, Accountability, Change, Family, Engagement, Compassion, Teaming, and Advocacy.
What are the DCS Core Values?
An experienced and trusted adviser.
What is a mentor?
The Extent of Maltreatment, Circumstances Surrounding Maltreatment, Child Functioning, Adult Functioning, General Parenting Practices, Discipline and Behavior Management
What are the six domains?
Behavioral, Cognitive, and Emotional.
What are the classifications for Caregiver Protective Capacities?
All five criteria must be met for at least one identified safety threat in order to determine a child is in _______.
What is Impending Danger?
We are safety experts. We create physically and psychologically safe environments for children, families, caregivers, staff and service providers. Our organizational culture provides safety to explore all ideas and topics, learn about other perspectives, and support one another
What is the core value of Safety?
Who is Barbara?
These questions focus on the allegations in the report and should be asked according to the type of abuse.
What is the Extent of Maltreatment?
Specific action, activity, performance that is consistent with and results in protective vigilance.
What is Behavioral Protective Capacity?
A child who is 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?
This core value means listening and being responsive to earn the trust of all we encounter. Through engagement, we make discoveries together and build upon individual strengths. We involve families in decisions and help them find family-specific solutions.
What is the core value of Engagement?
This person loves their dogs and once accidentally wore their crocs to work.
Who is Briana?
The assessment process, including interview protocol, interviewing/interpersonal techniques are all geared toward eliciting sufficient information related to the six assessment questions as well as engaging the family. Consider the following prior to initiating every Family Functioning Assessment.
What is the Family Functioning Assessment?
Specific intellect, knowledge, understanding, and perception that results in protective vigilance.
What is Cognitive Protective Capacity?
A child is considered to be ______ if no impending danger safety threat meets all five safety threshold criteria.
What is safe?
When children can’t speak for themselves, we can. As leaders in child well-being, we advocate to make the world a better place for children, while helping their families improve and heal. We champion actions that strengthen communities, families and our staff
What is the core value of Advocacy?
This mentor is becoming known as the #PolicyGuru.
Who is Heath?
A child is in __________ when there is an immediate, significant, and clearly observable family condition, child condition, or individual behavior that obviously endangers a child right now or threatens to endanger a child at any moment, and requires immediate action to protect the child before the comprehensive FFA can be completed.
What is present danger?
Specific feelings, attitudes, identification with a child and motivation that results in protective vigilance.
What are Emotional Protective Capacities?
_______ refers to the belief that threats to child safety are likely to become active without delay; a certainty about occurrence within the immediate to near future. This is consistent with a degree of certainty or inevitability that danger and severe harm are possible, even likely outcomes, without intervention.
What is Imminent?
This core value reaches beyond the home. This core value allows us to strengthen each other by connecting people with their communities so that all can thrive in a safe and supportive environment.
What is the core value of Family?
He is known as our fearless leader.
Who is George?