Concepts
Requires asking not what is wrong with you, but what happened to you.
What is trauma-informed care?
Therapeutic medical facility funded by Medical Assistance
What is an RTC?
C & G
What is Custody and Guardianship?
Legal hearing held directly after family separation.
What is the shelter hearing?
Percent of families who remain intact after child welfare encounter (+/- 5%)
What is 91 - 96%?
Repeated exposure to the trauma of others
What is secondary trauma?
Placement with kin who aren't certified as a foster parent.
What is formal kinship care?
CINA
What is a "Child in Need of Assistance?"
Maximizes family engagement and involvement in critical child-welfare decision-making.
What are Family Team Decision-Making meetings?
DSS funding to meet individual needs of families and their children.
What is flexible funding?
Repeated exposure to trauma that occurs in the context of early caregiving relationships
What is complex trauma
Age at which a child must exit foster care
What is age 21?
Response to an angry client who claims you aren't helping.
What would I be doing if I was helping you?
A key to effective engagement with involuntary clients.
What is empathy?
Being self-aware, applying personal strengths, knowledgeable about limitations
What is 'use of self'?
Efforts to remedy what brought the child into foster care.
What is reunification ?
FTDM
A child's x-ray shows old and healing injuries
What is safety?
Relationship between foster parent and biological parent
What is "shared parenting?"
An overwhelming majority of young children enter care secondary to the impact of this.
What is substance use disorder?
Long-term relationships older youth may have short of permanence.
What is "relational permanence?"
EBP
What is an evidence-based practice?
This law is meant to preserve Native American heritage through placement with tribe.
What is ICWA?
Meetings between foster parents and biological parents to get to know one another
What are icebreakers?