Families First Lingo
Formal and Informal Supports
Acronyms and Abbreviations
In the courtroom
Treatment and Recovery
100

This act aims to prevent the need for removal through evidence-based family preservation services.

What is the Family First Preservation Act, or Family First

100

This is a formal support person provided to families to help with parent child interactions, help planning to overcome barriers to reunification goals, and helps connect parents to community resources.

FCSS

100

This is a person appointed to supervise an offender for a specified amount of time.

PO-Probation officer

100

True or False: Your attorney can come to FTC and to Solution Focused Meetings.

True

100

Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves is this step.

Step 4

200

In this evidence based training curriculum, parents receive weekly home visits to improve skills in several areas, including home safety, health care, and parent-child interactions.

Safe Care

200

This person can guide me through the 12 steps, provide support if I'm craving, and can hold me accountable for my recovery goals.

Sponsor

200

JCO Stands for:

Juvenile Court Officer

200

The adjudication hearing is generally occurs in the beginning of a case and determines if children in the case are what?

CINA-Child(ren) in need of assistance

200

This term is used to describe a person who attempts to manage their addiction without help from others.

White knuckle

300

The goal of this is to work in partnership with the family to help identify the family's strengths, to focus on everyday life events, and to help the family build the skills necessary to manage difficult situations.

SBC-Solution Based Casework

300

Name 1 reason persons in their 1st year of recovery should avoid starting a new romantic relationship?

Relationships bring an abundance of emotions, of which, too much emotional activity is often a trigger to drink or use.

300

Describe the role of the GAL and what the letters stands for:

Attorney to the child(ren) and Guardian Ad Litem

300

This hearing occurs if the child is living outside of the home.

Permanency

300

These two Ohio men were the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935.

Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob.

400

These are short-term, family-focused services designed to assist families in crisis by improving parenting and family functioning while keeping children safe.

Family Preservation Services

400

This term is used to describe someone who is a great listener, but you've used in the past with them and know they continue to use.

Unhealthy Contact
400

Name one agency that provides BHIS and state what each letter stands for:

Behavioral Health Intervention Services: Family Access Center, Family Solutions

400

Efforts to assist the parent to keep the child at home safely must be offered. This will
include services that the parent and case manager decide are necessary to assist the family.

Reasonable Efforts

400

"When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation-some fact of my life, unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I can accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment." State the portion that comes before this quote on p. 417 of the AA big book.

What is: And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.

500

After a family is initially referred to Family Preservation Services, a Child Safety Conference needs to be scheduled within this amount of time.

3 business days

500

True or False: The terms romantic partner and counselor go hand in hand.

False

500

What is XIX?

Title 19/Medicaid

500

This worker does an assessment of the family and the incident when a child abuse report is filed.
 

Child Protective Worker CPW

500

Name 3 things that are typically always read at the beginning of an AA/NA meeting.

How It Works, 12 steps, 12 traditions, We Do Recovery, Why Are We Here, Who Is An Addict.