The form used when collecting information from people making a report
What is a 1402 or What is a CPS Screening and Response Tool for PATH NC
Current within 7 days of any case activity or action
What is documentation
What are the required response time frames when initiating a case
immediate—8 hours, 24 hours, or 72 hours
The permanent plan offering the most stability to the child who cannot return to their parents
What is Adoption
A person who has not reached the person's eighteenth birthday and is not married, emancipated, or a member of the Armed Forces of the United States.
What is a juvenile
What is the form referred to as Determination of Foster Care Assistance Benefits and/or Medical Assistance Only
What is a 5120
Held periodically to review the strengths, needs, placement, and permanent plan of each child placed in the custody of a county child welfare services agency
What is PERMANENCY PLANNING REVIEW TEAM MEETINGS/PPR
To assess reports of abuse, neglect, and/or dependency, each local county child welfare agency must use
The Family Assessment Track; or The Investigative Assessment Track.
Before a county department of social services may recommend unsupervised visits or return of physical custody of the juvenile, whichever occurs first, to the parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker from whom the juvenile was removed, a county department of social services shall
What is Rylan's Law Visits
A juvenile in need of assistance or placement because the juvenile has no parent, guardian, or custodian responsible for the juvenile's care or supervision or whose parent, guardian, or custodian, is unable to provide for the care or supervision and lacks an appropriate alternative childcare arrangement.
What is a Dependent Juvenile
The client entry form
What is DSS 5027
The child placed in foster care should have regular, ongoing opportunities to engage in age- or developmentally appropriate activities is refeered to as
What are Reasonable and Prudent Parent Standard:
In order for an initiation to be considered complete a CPS Assessment must include what
What is face-to face interviews with all children living in the home.
The annual pictures of the child occurs when
What is
At the time permanency is achieved, the pictures must be given to the adult assuming responsibility for the child’s care.
All additional pictures of the child must be maintained in the record or life-book, so they are available to the child, their family, or their adoptive family after resolution of the case.
The screening decision(s) must include a discussion between whom
What is the Intake caseworker and a supervisor
What form is used to complete out of state placement
What is DSS for 1837
The six types of permanency plans are
What is
Reunification; Custody; Guardianship; APPLA; Reinstatement of Parental Rights; Adoption
Child Protective Services (CPS) Assessments are legally mandated, involuntary services for:
Children who are alleged to be victims of abuse, neglect, and/or dependency due to the action of, or lack of protection by, the child’s parent/guardian/custodian or caretaker; and o The household family members of such children
As a part of completing a thorough CPS Assessment, the local county child welfare agency must:
What is Review all county Child Welfare services records for previous contact with the family; Conduct a Central Registry (CR) check for any previous reports of abuse, neglect, or dependency regarding the alleged victim child(ren); Check criminal records for all case participants who are 16 years of age or older and live in the home; Request 911 call logs on the relevant address(es) and review obtained information; Documentation to support the completion of these activities.
Reports of abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker that may meet the criminal definitions of child abuse must result in a notification to whom
Who are the District Attorney and Law Enforcement.
The form also known as the Child Placement an Payment Report
What is 5094
The permanency plan that implies responsibility for the oversight of a child’s care, protection, education, and personal relationships.
What is Custody
The sequence of interviews for a Family Assessment or Investigative Assessment without allegations of abuse but with allegations of DV must be as follows:
1. Non-offending parent/adult victim; 2. Children; 3. Alleged perpetrator of DV
The case of a juvenile who is in the custody or placement responsibility of a county DSS and has been in placement outside the home for 12 of the most recent 22 months, or a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that the parent (i) has abandoned the child, (ii) has committed murder or voluntary manslaughter of another child of the parent, or (iii) has aided, abetted, attempted, conspired, or solicited to commit murder or voluntary manslaughter of the child or another child of the parent, the director of the department of social services shall initiate
What is termination of parental rights/TPR
The categories of the Structured Intake tool are
Mandatory Questions; Aff Participants; Screening and Connecting Maltreatments; Response Time Assessment Track; Screening Response