CPS
The phantom case file
The phantom case file
This is the primary responsibility of CPS when a report is accepted for investigation.
What is ensuring child safety?
This term describes a report that meets statutory and policy criteria for CPS involvement.
What is an accepted intake/accepted case
This document guides immediate safety decision-making at the beginning of a CPS investigation.
What is the SDM Safety Assessment?
CPS must assess this whenever allegations involve physical injury, sexual abuse, or neglect.
What is child safety?
This DCFS role is responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse or neglect.
What is a CPS caseworker?
This type of maltreatment involves failure to provide basic needs such as food, shelter, or supervision.
What is neglect?
This assessment evaluates the likelihood of future maltreatment after safety has been addressed.
What is the SDM Risk Assessment?
This must occur when a child is determined to be unsafe but can remain in the home with controls.
What is a safety plan?
This describes a situation where a child is in immediate danger of serious harm.
What is an unsafe child determination/unsafe finding.
DCFS policy requires this professional to be notified when law enforcement removes a child.
Who is the CPS caseworker?
This is the standard timeframe in which CPS must initiate contact after an intake is accepted, depending on priority.
What is required response time?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is future risk only?
This DCFS action occurs when a child cannot remain safely in the home despite interventions.
What is protective custody/ a removal?
This term describes a caregiver behavior that directly threatens serious hard to a child.
What is a safety threat?
This records CPS findings at the conclusion of an investigation.
What is the allegation summary/family summary.
This determination is made when allegations are supported by evidence under CPS policy.
What is a supported finding?
This condition exists when safety threats are present and no protective capacities can manage them.
What is an unsafe determination.
This CPS action must occur when new safety threats are identified during an open investigation.
What is reassessing safety?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Referent, law enforcement, children, mother, father, third party, and alleged perpetrator.
This describes a caregiver’s ability to protect a child from harm now and in the foreseeable future.
What are protective capacities?
This is the correct CPS action when a safety plan can no longer control identified safety threats.
What is a removal or placement into protective custody?
This CPS principle requires decisions to be based on observable behaviors rather than assumptions.
What is evidence/evidence based practice
This is the policy reason a safety plan cannot rely solely on the alleged perpetrators compliance.
What is lack of demonstrated protective capacity or lying
This is the determination when a child has been assessed unsafe but allowed to stay in the home.
What is safe with a plan?
The three priority types and their time frames.
What is P3- 3 days, P2- 2-24 hours. P1- Immediate- 1 hour