Child and Family Team Meetings
This meeting brings the family, child welfare team, caregivers, and other supports together to discuss safety, permanency, well-being, and next steps.
What is a Child and Family Team Meeting?
This document outlines the family's needs, goals, services, progress, and steps toward permanency.
What is the Service Plan?
In child welfare, if a case activity is not documented in SACWIS, it is considered what?
What is not completed or What is it did not occur or What is it did not happen?
During a home visit, the first priority of CWS is to observe the child, caregiver interactions, and conditions of the home to assess this.
What is child safety?
This position has primary responsibility for case management, family engagement, case contacts, service-plan implementation, and monitoring progress toward permanency.
Who is the Child Welfare Specialist (CWS)?
To ensure ongoing communication and progress, AT MINIMUM, how often should a CFTM be held?
What is every 90 days?
This meeting provides an independent review of case progress, services, family involvement, and movement toward permanency.
What is an Administrative Case Review (ACR)?
Contact notes should be entered into SACWIS within this required timeframe following the contact.
What is within 48 hours of the contact?
During a supervised parent-child visit when staff are monitoring parent’s interactions, response to the child’s needs, ability to maintain safety; what are they observing?
What are appropriate parenting skills?
This position assists the CWS with approved case-support activities such as transportation, visitation support, and other assigned case-related tasks.
Who is the Child Welfare Assistant (CWA)?
Before a CFTM begins, this should be prepared by the CWS to help keep the meeting organized, focused, and on track.
What is the CFTM agenda?
For Cook Foster Care practice, the Service Plan should be submitted to the supervisor this many days before the ACR.
What is 21–14 days before the ACR?
Of the following, which is NOT an essential element of a quality contact note: who was involved, purpose of the contact, observations, follow-up actions, or the worker’s personal opinion?
What is the worker’s personal opinion?
Of the following, which is NOT something a CWS should assess during a home visit: food in the home, sleeping arrangements, caregiver's decorating style, safety hazards or child-caregiver interactions?
What is the caregiver’s decorating style?
This position monitors foster-home licensing requirements, assist with certification requirements, licensing compliance, issues related to the foster home's license and assist with issues related to certification.
Who is the Resource Specialist?
Who is responsible for ensuring that parents, youth-when appropriate, caregivers, service providers, family/support and other relevant team members are appropriately invited to the CFTM?
Who is the CWS?
Under DCFS ACR expectations, a Service Plan not signed at least this long before the scheduled ACR is considered missed.
What is two business days before the ACR?
When a Case Aide/CWA provides transportation, supervises a visit, or completes another assigned case activity, what type of note should they enter in SACWIS?
What is a collateral contact note or What is a CFS 502-Visiting Record?
When monitoring a foster home, the Resource/Licensing Specialist should review the home environment, licensing requirements, caregiver practices, and any concerns to ensure the home remains in this status.
What is in compliance with licensing standards?
A child needs clinical assessment and therapeutic intervention related to trauma, behavior, or emotional functioning. Which team member takes the lead?
Who is the child therapist/counselor?
Of the following, which is NOT a reason to conduct a CFTM: placement concern/change, permanency barriers, routine paperwork, or coordinating important case decisions?
What is completing routine paperwork?
A CWS completes the Service Plan but fails to send the required documents to the ACR reviewer by the deadline. Under the ACR expectations, what can this result in?
What is a missed ACR
For Specialized Foster Care cases, how many monthly CWS contacts are required when the child is placed in a licensed or certified foster home?
What is three face-to-face contacts per month?
During a home visit, you notice the child's basic needs are met, but the child appears fearful around an adult in the home. There are no visible injuries. What should you do?
Leadership approved feedback and discussion from any team
The CWS encounters a significant safety concern, case-practice issue, missed deadline, or situation requiring direction beyond their authority. Who is responsible for providing case consultation, oversight, and supervisory direction?
Who is the Supervisor (CWSS)?