Assessment & Trauma Screening
This simple, checklist assessment is done upon intake by a clinician.
What is a Trauma Screen Checklist?
This is the system by which Eliot tracks applicants, interviews, and new hires.
This is one way that staff can develop rapport with a youth, identify their interests/wants/needs, and document weekly to better support treatment.
What is an advocacy report?
This helpful packet ensures families, youth, and their DCF team is aware of services provided within our residential programs.
What is the Family/Youth Handbook?
This is where a youth's pronouns, sexual orientation, gender identity, and preferred name can be found.
What is the eHana face sheet?
(Emergency Fact Sheet (EFS) has preferred name and may also be acceptable)
Name three assessments or documents we might request from a DCF team to better inform our own assessment process.
What is:
1. DCF Family Assessment
2. Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
3. NeuroPsych testing
4. Previous treatment plans
5. Academic testing
6. Autism screen/assessment
7. Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) (or other behavioral testing)
8. Previous BioPsychoSocial assessments
Name the two of the trainings provided at Foundations of Care.
What is:
1. Trauma-Informed Care?
2. ARC?
3. BSS (Point Sheets, Re-Dos)?
4. Rehab Option Service Notes?
This is a way to track youth's ability to engage in milieu routines, ADLs, and progress on their treatment goals by checking in and providing rewards via a token economy.
What are the BSS Point Sheets?
(Program shop also acceptable)
These are the three places to record phone calls and on-site visits for our youth.
What are the green log (ops log), phone/visit binder, and in service notes?
This Measurement-Based Care platform gives our youth a chance to speak freely about their traumatic experiences and process with a clinician.
This is how quickly we complete an initial trauma assessment.
What is within 24hrs of intake?
This is a service that provides 10 free virtual therapy sessions, supports staff with stress, vicarious trauma, and other concerns, and provides support with finding ongoing services as needed.
What is the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)?
This is a document provided by DCF that may give us insight into the family history and trauma of caregivers.
What is the DCF Family Assessment?
This is how our programs manage body modifications (haircuts, nails, etc) for our youth.
What is obtaining permission from DCF and ask for guardian input?
This is the process our programs follow for bed assignment when a youth identifies as a gender other than their sex assigned at birth.
What is assign a room that aligns with the youth's gender identity and inform DCF?
This is a shared document for admin completing intake to inform staff within the program of relevant information regarding the youth and their case.
What is the intake summary?
What is Headspace?
This assessment document provides an area to explore caregiver needs and strengths.
What is the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)?
A phrase that sums up including youth and their families in treatment planning, allowing agency, and individualizing treatment to best fit them as experts on themselves.
A child in our care on a C&P is prescribed medication by their PCP for severe mental health concerns, but their parent denies the child needing medication. These are two of the ways we should manage this situation.
What is
-including the parent in treatment plan meetings to discuss current presentation?
-discuss the benefits of medication?
-validate the parent's concerns about medication?
-provide family sessions to better understand mental health concerns?
A lengthy, detailed assessment that rates domains of function across a 30-day snapshot that also includes a diagnosis.
What is the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS)?
This is a specially-trained team of administrators that provides group and individual processing and support following a major incident.
Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT).
This is how Re-Dos relate to each of the three domains of Attachment Regulation Competency (ARC).
What is:
Attachment: Staff collaborating with youth to solve a problem or overcome an obstacle. Building rapport with staff by connecting/processing?
Regulation: Youth learn about or develop a new coping skill or co-regulate with a staff?
Competency: Youth can utilize that skill in the future, feel empowered to do so independently, and learn about themselves in the process?
Name three components of the discharge summary that would support continuing treatment/support in the next placement.
1. Clinical recommendations
2. Youth preferences in treatment
3. Provider contacts
4. Youth interests and hobbies
5. Youth strengths and capabilities
This is an available service for communicating with youth and families via phone or in-person if Eliot staff are unable to communicate in the youth or family's preferred language.