FA BASICS
This part of the Family Assessment is voluntary for families.
What is participation in the Family Assessment?
Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are examples of this.
What are family supports?
A type of question to encourage family engagement.
What are open-ended questions?
Reviewing the results of the Family Assessment
What happens between the Family Assessment and building outcomes?
A family responds to every routine with, "Everything is fine." A skilled Service Coordinator uses open-ended questions about daily routines to gather more meaningful information.
What is avoiding yes/no questioning and exploring the family's everyday routines?
The Family Assessment helps identify these three things.
What are concerns, priorities, and resources?
WIC, Medicaid, and SNAP are examples of these.
What are resources?
The minimum number of daily routines an IFSP Team must go into depth on.
What are three (3) routines?
A family identifies concerns during mealtime, dressing, and bedtimes, but says if one thing could improve, it would be mealtime. This should drive outcome development.
What is a priority?
When a family identifies concerns with dressing, mealtime, bedtime, and outings, this should be determined before outcomes are written.
What is the family's highest priority?
Family Assessment information is used to develop these.
What are IFSP outcomes and services?
Parent Education Programs and Early Head Start fall into this category and must have one of these on file.
What are early childhood programs and a Release of Information?
This question often reveals a family's priority.
What would make this routine easier?
This should be documented and considered before outcomes are written, even when families are discussing challenging routines.
What are the child's strengths?
A Family Assessment contains concerns, strengths, supports, and routine ratings, yet meaningful outcomes cannot be written because this key element was not identified.
What is what the family wants to be different in their daily life?
There must be at least one of these identified by the family.
What is a priority?
The worksheet requires at least this many supports and resources be documented.
What is at least one support and one resource?
When a routine is rated "Not Working Well," the SC should use this document.
What are the Family Assessment Follow-Up Questions?
An outcome that measures stacking blocks but has no connection to family routines is missing this essential component.
What is functional participation in everyday routines?
The Family Assessment identifies concerns with mealtime, but the outcome focuses on naming colors.
What is poor alignment between assessment information and outcomes?
This section allows families to rate their daily routines by category. Name the section and the categories.
What is Section 3 - "Working Well", "Going Okay", and "Not Working Well"?
Name two community resources a family might identify.
Who are community groups, recreational activities, church supports, health care providers, etc.
These areas must be covered in the daily routines
What are the five (5) developmental domains?
If this cannot be clearly identified from the Family Assessment, you may not yet have enough information to write a quality IFSP outcome.
What is what the family wants to be different?
Family agrees to complete the Family Assessment but does not want it to be included in the IFSP.
What is to document in WebSPOE under the Family Assessment Tab?