OSM
The overarching process that assesses and manages safety from screening through case closure.
What is the Oregon Safety Intervention Model
The legal requirement to file a TPR when a child has been out of the home 15 out of the previous 22 months.
any person, professional or nonprofessional, selected to provide the safety response(s) within in-home safety plans, out-of-home safety plans or a combination of the two.
Who are Safety Service Providers.
4 stages of getting to know the historical and current circumstances, as well as future goals, of a family, in relation to the child's safety.
Protective Capacity Assessment (PCA).
1. Preparation
2. Introduction
3. Exploration
4. Change strategy and case planning
The location of which the caseworker must see a youth placed with a parent face to face each month.
What is In the home.
When assessing safety, the presence of one of these two dangers will be determined.
What is Present Danger and Impending Danger safety threats. Impending then has 16 identified categories of threats.
The Comprehensive Transition Plan (CTP) is required for all youth beginning at this age.
What is 14 years old.
Caseworker must confirm the substitute care environment is safe for the child, and the child's needs are being met while in care during this interaction.
What is monthly Face to Face contact.
A gathering of family and ODHS to develop an ongoing safety plan, with a focus on achieving safety and reunification, and requires discussing ASFA. It is also the official transition from primary case management by CPS to Permanency.
What is the Family Engagement Meeting (FEM).
These clear, specific and concise statements correspond to the missing In-home criteria and are customized to each parent's situation.
What are the Conditions for Return.
These 5 categories make up the safety threshold criteria.
Observable
Out of Control
Vulnerable child/Young adult
Imminent
Severity
A specific paper/poster that must be posted in all resource homes within 60 days of placement and reviewed with youth in care.
What is Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights.
Need to provide another one with every placement change. At age 14+ the youth receive a signature page to acknowledge the caseworker reviewed with them.
The Permanency caseworker must visit the child and the family within this amount of working days of receiving the case (prep meeting).
What is 5
The 4 criteria for a youth to be placed at home with a parent.
What is the In-home Safety Criteria:
1. Home like setting
2. There are no barriers for Safety Services.
3. Willing to cooperate with the plan.
4. Sufficient safety services available.
These 16 categories are the basis for safety planning.
What is Impending Danger Safety Threats.
A case plan must be created and approved within this timeframe of a child being placed in substitute care.
What is 60 days.
This must be conducted on any SSP if the individual's role will have contact with a child.
What is LEDS criminal record check.
An opportunity for birth/legal parents and resource parents to exchange information about the youth and the resource home.
What is Ice Breaker/Meet and Greet
This 12-week service provides in-home support for stabilization and/or reunification. and is the only safety service provider in our contracted services.
What is ISRS.
A family behavior, condition, or circumstance that meets all five safety threshold criteria. When it is occurring, this type of threat(danger) is not immediate, obvious, or occurring at the onset of the CPS intervention. This threat is identified and understood more fully by evaluating and understanding individual and family functioning.
What is Impending danger safety threat.
The process of placing a child in another state.
What is Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC).
In every parents' home with a youth 12-months or younger, these practices are required to be discussed, observed, and education provided if needed, and documented monthly.
What are Safe Sleep Practices
The timeframe of which ODHS is required to contact relatives once identified and received contact information.
What is 15 days.
The caseworker must visit the youth in the parents' home during this timeframe of the child's return home.
When is the following day.