Acronym City
Overview for You
An Overview Or Two
True or False
100

The Administration for Children's Services

What is ACS?

100

This city agency is the one in charge of maintaining Promis.

What is ACS?

100

This is the minimum number of casework contacts required of each case planner for one case.

What is two?

100

I only input my notes on Promis

False. Notes go on Connections.

200

OCFS

What is the "Office of Children and Family Services"

200

This type of case doesn't require notes in Connections, but will still appear on both Connections and Promis

What is an ADVOP case

200

If there are children under this age, case planners need to observe the children twice for that month.

What is two?

200

If I forget to put my contacts in Promis it won't matter because my notes are in Connections.

False. Contact need to be inputted into Promis regardless of the note in Connections.

300

CNNX

What is Connections?

300

This event is an important meeting between families, case workers and community members in order to reassess a families progress.

What is an FTC?

300

This is the first visit, often performed with ACS

What is a Joint Home Visit?

300

I have access to the any notes written by other case planners in Connections

False. You have access to the notes written by other case planners only for cases you're assigned to.

400

FASP

What is Family Assessment and Service Plan

400

This is where I can find my templates, forms and guidelines for writing notes and performing visits

What is the server?

400

AAFSC is this three word term that starts with a G...

What is a General Preventive Agency?

400

the command to run to open to server is 'run server'

False. the command is \\server

500

FTC

What is Family Team Conference?

500

This database, named after a fruit, is internal to AAFSC.

What is Apricot?

500

The average lifetime for a case is around this long

What is 10-12 months?

500

If I say I did the FTC in my notes that's good enough.

False. The date of FTC should be logged in Promis as an FTC from the drop down menu