Minimum Work Guidelines
This is generally the first face to face contact with START. However, when contact information is available FM will contact family prior to introduce themselves and the START program. This meeting will take place within 3 days of receiving the referral.
What is the "initial" SDMM! (Shared Decision-Making Meeting)
This is a minimum standard for case initiations according to the evidence-based practice.
What is the "National START Timeline"?
At case closure, 60% of less of children in START remained with or were reunified with their parents.
What is FALSE?
....MORE THAN 75% children in START remained with parents
One Family Mentor is paired with one child welfare worker.
What is a START dyad?
North Carolina Family Assessment Scale
an evidence based comprehensive assessment tool that uses a process of identifying, gathering and weighing information to understand significant factors affecting child safety, permanency, parental capabilities, and family's ability to assure the safety of their children.
What is NCFAS and how to define it?
After the "initial meeting" FM is tasked with a few responsibilities to ensure the parents are feeling supported as they begin the process of recovery. This SPECIFIC task gives the FM ability to build a "rapport" with the client and help them arrive on time for the assessment.
What is the purpose of transportation to treatment services and assessments?
1.) The investigative worker identifies eligible families and/or
2.) referrals for eligible families made to START
What occurs within 24 hours to 10 days of receiving initial report? (2 possible correct answers.)
For every $1 spent on START, Kentucky avoided spending $2.22
What is a FACT?
A strong collaborative partnership with treatment providers for SUD, co-occurring MH, and other family serving entities to develop a coordinated system-of-care.
What is "collaboration with partners"?
.... a specific name of a community partner is accepted as a correct answer
* Within 30 days of receiving the case
*Every 6 months as long as case in open
*At case closure
When should NCFAS be completed? and how often?
Weekly face to face contact with the parents within the first 90 days. 2 weekly contacts per month will occur in the home.
What is FM minimum work guidelines for the first 90 days?
Conduct the initial SDMM to include the parents, START team, and investigation team assigned to the family.
What is within 3 days of START referral?
DAILY DOUBLE WORTH 600 POINTS:
FACT OR FICTION:
THERE ARE 2 DIFFERENT TYPES OF NACFAS USED WITH START
FACT!!!!
NCFAS-G: USED IN ALL START CASES REGARDLEDD OF PLACEMENT
NCFAS-R: ARE ONLY USED IN CASES THAT THE FAMILY IS REUNIFICATION PLAN (OOHC OR PLACEMENT)
Child welfare staff must meet the _____________ that represents the more intensive approach to service delivery than traditional child welfare practice.
What is "Minimum Work Guidelines"?
According to the NCFAS rating system, the rating "0" is known as this.
What is the "baseline" or adequate functioning rating.
Noted: This is a positive.
Weekly face to face with parent for 60 days and two of the weekly contacts per month will occur in the home. First home visit must be within 1 week of SDMM, after 60 days, a minimum of twice per month. A minimum of one contact per month will be scheduled.
What is Minimum work guidelines for START worker to meet with parents?
NOTE:
This does not include the children
Treatment provider meets with parent to do SUD/MH assessment
What is within 3 business days of SDMM?
One of the 6 goals of START is improving system capacity for addressing parental substance use and child malfunction.
What is a FACT?
START keeps children safely with their parents or family whenever possible or reunifies the family when parental recovery is stable and safety factors have been established.
What is "Unifying Families"?
Caregiver/ child ambivalence and Readiness for Reunification are used only in for specific cases.
What are the 2 domains used when OOHC?
Weekly face to face contact with parents, two of the weekly will occur in the home. First home visit within a week of the SDMM. After 90 days a minimum of twice per month. FMs are to visit children in foster care or placement.
What is the "contact standards" for out of home placements?
1.) Parent in intensive SUD treatment within the first 10 days and
2.) SDMM to align treatment and case plan
What 2 things happen within 10 business days of beginning treatment?
_____________ IS COMPRIMISED OF 8 DOMAINS:
a. Environment' e. Child Well-being
b. Parental Capabilities f. Self-sufficiency
c. Family Interaction g. Social/Community life
d. Family Safety h. Family Health
What is NCFAS-G?
START views THE FAMILY AS THE CLIENT and the focus of the team is to improve and promote a nurturing parent-child relationship and parenting capacity.
What is "Family Centered Interventions"?
* case plan evaluation
* case plan
* contacts/service recordings
* court reports
* case closure
What is the 5 c's of where to document NCFAS in case work?