Permanency Plans
This is the most common goal on a permanency plan.
What is Return to Parent?
The first face to face visit by FSW when a child enters custody happens by this time period.
What is three business days?
CANS are for children this age and older.
What is 5 years?
Children this age and above must be prepared to participate and included in CFTMs.
What is 12?
A.S.F.A. stands for _______________.
What is the Adoption and Safe Families Act?
These are listed in the order in which they are to be completed.
What are action steps?
This occurs within the first seven calendar days of a child entering custody.
What is the Initial CFTM?
This assessment is used by CPS and helps to identify safety concerns, underlying risks, needs and strengths of families.
What is the FAST?
CFTMs occur this often.
What is every three months?
This court hearing occurs annually.
What is the Permanency Hearing?
These are skills, abilities, talents, resiliencies, and resources that have enabled a family to be successful or to overcome adversity in the past.
What are strengths?
The Initial Permanency Plan CFTM happens by this time period.
What is 30 calendar days?
This gathers information on youth and caregiver’s strengths and needs.
What is the CANS?
This should always be gathered from the family’s perspective.
What is the Family Story?
The purpose of this is to document and preserve the history of a child in DCS custody.
What is a Life Story Book?
This is a method of case planning in which two or more goals are implemented simultaneously.
What is concurrent planning?
This is the minimum amount of hours visitation is to occur between parents and their children.
What is four hours?
This assessment provides preventive health care for children and youth.
What is the EPSD&T?
This pictorial tool is always to be discussed with the family to explore potential supports within the family.
What is the genogram?
This is the preferred resource if out of home care is necessary.
What is Kinship Care?
This provides a description of the current issue, symptom, or behavior to be addressed.
What is a need statement?
Trial Home Visits typically last this amount of time.
What is 90 days?
These three areas from the ILA must be included on the Permanency Plan for youth 14-16.
What are Life Skills, Social Skills, and Credit Check?
This DCS worker is required to be at all Initial CFTMs.
Who is a Skilled Facilitator?
The purpose of this is to locate known and unknown parents and relatives/kin who can provide supports to the family.
What is Diligent Search?