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A consultation with your supervisor must be completed within how many days of seeing the first victim child on your report for an institutional investigation.
What is five?
Subtype when allegations of Human Trafficking by a non-legal guardian are reported
What is "Other" investigation subtype?
The foundation of the practice model that provides a systematic and structured mechanism for you to gather, assess and synthesize information
What is the Family Functioning Assessment?
•Child-on-child sexual abuse
•Foster Care Referrals
•Caregiver Absent
•Parent Needs Assistance
What are Special Condition Referrals?
A way of working with families to enhance their capacity to care for and protect their children, focuses on the family as whole and sees the family in the context of their own culture networks and communities, sees the family as a partner in the change process
What is Family Centered Practice?
Immediate Steps the CPI must take if a child dies due to abuse, abandonment, or neglect during and open investigation
What are call in a hotline report, notify the Regional Child Fatality Prevention Specialist (in writing) within 24 hours, complete a safety assessment and refer any other children on the investigation to CPT?
This time clock begins when the decision is made to screen-in and investigation and may only be upgraded or downgraded by a supervisor?
What is the investigative response time?
The first assessment of the children's safety in their household to determine if immediate protective actions needs to be put in place to protect the children
What is the Present Danger Assessment?
•All prior and current allegation narratives.
•All prior abuse reports and investigative decision summaries to assess maltreatments, alleged victims, alleged perpetrators and outcomes of prior interventions or case management services.
•Available national, state and local criminal histories, including National Crime Information Center (NCIC), local law enforcement arrests and “call out” history.
•Available clerk of court records (CCIS) and Department of Corrections (DOC) records.
What is information you need to review in pre-commencement?
Injuries to the head, bruises to the neck or head, burns, or fractures in a child of any age.
Bruises anywhere on a child 5 years of age or under.
Any report alleging sexual abuse of a child.
Any sexually transmitted disease in a prepubescent child.
Reported malnutrition dehydration of a child
Reported medical neglect of a child.
What are situations requiring a mandatory referral to the Child Protection Team?
a. Academic and Cognitive Functioning
b. Child Maltreatment History
c. Offense Characteristics
d. Mental Health Issues
e. Parental capacities
f. Sexual Knowledge and Experience
g. Social and Interpersonal Skill and Relationships
h. Normal childhood experimentation
What are elements to consider in a child on child investigation?
When the report does not meet the definition of abuse, abandonment or neglect, the report meets criteria for no jurisdiction, or the report is a duplicate of information contained in another open or closed investigation with nothing new added
What are cases exempted from Pre-commencement?
A tool used to determine if a family could use referrals to intervention services when their investigation doesn't rise to the level of maltreatment
What is the Actuarial Risk Assessment?
The systems approach for gathering information from collaterals
What is family, educational, medical, legal and community?
CANNOT be documented in FSFN. This criminal information must be secured in a sealed envelope in the paper file. |
What is sealed or expunged criminal information received from the FCIC?
The sub-type when the alleged perpetrator of abuse or neglect is a foster parent, an employee of a school, public or private day care center, residential home, institution, facility, or agency. This includes any law enforcement officer employed in any facility, service, or program for children that is operated or contracted by the Department of Juvenile Justice.
What is institutional?
Responsible party for scheduling a safety planning conference with the family’s safety management team within 24 hours of the investigator determining that a new maltreatment incident has occurred in an open services case.
Who is the Case Manager?
A type of investigation that does not require a family functioning assessment, where the CPI determines the appropriate maltreatment findings and assess whether or not the parent will take appropriate protective actions if the maltreatment is verified
What is a human trafficking violation where the perpetrator is not the parent/caregiver?
Should be considered if there is a concern involving domestic violence or intimate partner violence or a family has a prior history of domestic violence or intimate partner violence.
What is consultation with a DV advocate?
The length of time you have to call a licensing entity if an institutional abuse report is received
What is one working day?
Cases where the Department of Children and Families does not have the jurisdiction to accept intakes.
Intakes that invole law enforcement officers and municipal and county correctional officers when they are acting in their official capacity
Steps the CPI takes when a child joins a focus household under investigation for allegations of abuse, neglect or abandonment (3)
a. Add the name and demographics of the child to the investigation and the FFA.
b. Assess the child as a part of the FFA. Include information about the child and the impact on family dynamics in each of the domains.
c. The CPI must re-evaluate and update any safety plan already in place.
A comprehensive look at the child’s behavioral health needs intended to guide case planning and service provision for youth and is covered by Medicaid
What is a Comprehensive Behavioral Health Assessment (CBHA)?
Instances when Immediate Law Enforcement consultations are required (6)
What are Life threatening circumstances, present danger exists with significant injuries, the parent is restricting access to the child and reports are of serious harm, CPI feels a child needs to be in protective custody, concerns for worker safety, and a joint response is needed due to interview purposes or evidence preservation?
Within three (3) days of making an oral report to this agency regarding and institutional investigation, the CPI must make a full written report containing:
• A complete description of the allegations contained in the report.
• A summary of interviews conducted to date.
• A description of the key investigative activities that remain to be conducted.
What is the State's Attorney Office?