Safety
A behavior, condition, or circumstance that has the potential to place a child in immediate or impending danger of serious harm.
What is a safety factor?
An assessment tool that is used to gather specific information about a child’s family and analyze it in order to assess the likelihood of future abuse or maltreatment of the child.
What it a Risk Assessment Profile (RAP)?
A day where you make no appointments on your already existing cases.
Who is inday?
Schools, Daycares, Medical, Relatives, Neighbors, Law Enforcement or other parties that have regular and consistent contact with the child(ren),
What is a collateral contact?
A baseline of proper care for children that all parents, regardless of lifestyle or social or economic position, must meet.
What is minimum degree of care?
A clearly identified set of actions, including controlling interventions, when necessary, that have been, or will be taken without delay, to protect the child(ren) from immediate or impending danger of serious harm.
What is a safety plan?
An adult who lives in the child(ren)’s home and assumes some responsibility for the care of the child(ren); or an adult who does not reside in the child(ren)’s home, but cares for the child(ren) on a regular basis.
What is a secondary caretaker?
An alternative approach to child protective services that focuses on engaging families in assessing child safety and needs, rather than conducting traditional investigations.
What is Family Assessment Response (FAR)?
An evaluation of safety factors to determine whether the child(ren) named in the report and any other child(ren) in the household may be in immediate danger of serious harm, and, if any child is assessed to be unsafe, undertaking immediate and appropriate interventions to protect the child(ren)
What is a preliminary safety assessment (7-day Safety)?
Evidence showing the allegation is more likely true than not, the minimum necessary to indicate a report.
What is a fair preponderance?
Parent exhibits behavior that seems out of touch with reality, fanatical, bizarre, and/or extremely irrational.
What is Safety Factor #5?
(Parent(s)'/Caretaker(s)' apparent or diagnosed medical or mental health status or developmental disability negatively impacts his/her ability to supervise, protect, and/or care for the child(ren))
Risk elements applicable to the whole family unit
What are risk elements 1-6?
The demographics, facts of the case and evidence collected thus far are discussed to determine next steps and a plan to keep the child(ren) safe.
What is a planning meeting?
Narcotics Anonymous, senior knitting club, prayer group, Book Club, PTA, hiking club, mommy and me
What are cultural connections?
Activities or arrangements designed to protect a child from unsafe situations, behaviors or conditions associated with immediate danger of serious harm, and without which the unsafe situations, behaviors or conditions would still be present or would be likely to immediately return.
What are controlling interventions?
Parent(s)/Caretaker(s) curses and repeatedly puts a child down.
What is a safety factor # 10?
(Parent(s)/Caretaker(s) views, describes or acts toward the child(ren) in predominantly negative terms and/or has extremely unrealistic expectations of the child(ren))
May indicate that services are deemed essential in order to decrease the risk of subsequent abuse or maltreatment. If protective or preventive services are not provided to, an explanation is required regarding why services are not being provided.
What is a high or very high risk rating?
1034, 255, 422
What are court ordered investigations (COI)?
Anytime where injuries are alleged or where the condition of the home is called into question. To corroborate children’s or adult’s stories and collect evidence.
When should pictures be taken?
A tool that addresses the health and substance use disorder treatment needs of both an infant and the affected family or caregiver. It must address not only the immediate safety needs of the affected infant, but also the health and substance use disorder needs of the affected family or caregiver. It should include referrals to appropriate services that support the affected infant and family or caregivers.
What is a Plan of Safe Care (POSC)?
Child(ren) exposed to large quantities of acetone for use in the production of methamphetamine.
What is safety factor #13?
The physical condition of the home is hazardous to the safety of children.
(Will also accept safety factor #18-Criminal activity in the home negatively impacts Parent(s)/Caretaker(s) ability to supervise, protect and/or care for the child(ren)
Twenty years ago, when the mother was 17 years old, her infant was removed from her care. Following family court involvement, her rights to that child were terminated.
What is an elevated risk?
WMS, Connections, VineLink, NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Child Support
What are resources we can use to look for absent parents?
A contemporaneous record of CPS’s investigative, assessment, and intervention activities, and should be objective and behaviorally descriptive. The notes should support CPS’s conclusions about safety, risk, family functioning, and should clearly document the evidence that exists to substantiate allegations of child abuse or maltreatment or the lack of such evidence to support unfounding the allegations in a report.
What are progress notes?
Initiated in Family Court to address child abuse and neglect, allowing the court to protect children and oversee interventions when their safety is at risk.
What is an Article 10 proceeding?