Acronyms
GAL
What is Guardian ad Litem?
The phone number for the DCFS hotline
1-800-25-ABUSE
The hearing held within 48 hours of a child being taken into protective custody by DCFS, to determine if there is immediate and urgent necessity to keep the child out of the home.
What is Shelter Care?
How often a CASA volunteer needs to visit a child (at minimum)?
What is once every 30 days?
A learned pattern of customs, beliefs and behaviors, socially acquired and socially transmitted through symbols and widely shared meanings
What is culture?
DCFS
What is Department of Children and Family Services?
The 3 basic needs of a child
What is physical, developmental, and emotional
A hearing held every 6 months to determine if the goal is still appropriate and whether or not the parent(s) have made reasonable efforts and/or reasonable and substantial progress on the service plan goals.
What is the permanency hearing?
When court reports are due to your CASA supervisor
What is 2 weeks prior to the court date?
An ongoing process of recognizing and overcoming biases by thinking flexibly and finding sources of information about those who are different from you
What is cultural competence?
ROE
Regional Office of Education
Principle of giving a child a safe home, a permanent home, as quickly as possible
What is the "Best Interest" Principle?
The hearing in which the judge decides whether the facts alleged in a petition are true.
What is adjudication?
Number of continuing education hours required annually
What is 12 hours?
Refers to differences or variety in people’s identities or experiences
What is diversity?
CFTM
What is Child and Family Team Meeting?
Ability to become strong, healthy or successful again after something bad happens
What is resilience?
A child in need of assistance or placement because he/she has no parent, guardian, or custodian responsible for his/her care or supervision, or whose parent, guardian, or custodian, through no fault of their own, is unable to provide the care or supervision
What is a dependent minor?
The four key components of the CASA role
Information gathering
Facilitation
Advocacy
Monitoring
Overrepresentation or underrepresentation of various groups in different social, political or economic institutions
What is disproportionality?
MSL
What is Minimum Sufficient Level of Care?
The strong, enduring bond of trust that develops between a child and the person they interact with most frequently (develops intensely through the first 3 years of life)
What is attachment?
The minimum amount of time before a goal can be changed to termination of parental rights
What is 9 months?
A permanency planning strategy for reunification that occurs simultaneously with the development of alternative permanency plans, including adoption, to be used in the event that it is not possible for the child to return to his/her family of origin
What is concurrent planning?
A highly simplified conception or belief about a person, place or thing based on limited information
What is a stereotype?