The Family Service Specialist must make a referral to a Community Resource Person when the youth is ...
What is 15 years and 9 months of age?
(can be sooner, if you feel it is needed)
The ongoing Specialist must complete an initial case plan within ...
What is 60 days from date of placement?
The Ongoing Specialist must complete the PCA process with caregivers and produce a documented case plan within..
WHAT IS 60 DAYS OF ONGOING CASE ASSIGNMENT ?
written arrangement between a family and CPS that establishes how Impending Danger (Impending Danger threats) will be managed..
What is a Safety Plan ?
Occurs at the time a worker makes contact with alleged victim(s) and infers if there is present danger or not.
What is Initial Contact ?
A transitional meeting must occur this many days before the youth leaves CPS custody.
What is 30-90 days?
Purpose is to provide updates regarding a change in a child's needs, placement change, permanency goal, concurrent planning, and/or case closure.
What is a Case Plan Addendum?
personal and parenting behavioral, cognitive, and emotional characteristics that can specifically and directly be associated with a person being protective of his or her child. It is a specific quality that can be observed, understood and demonstrated as a part of the way a parent thinks, feels, and acts that makes her or him protective.
What are Caregiver Protective Capacities ?
While on call - Employees receive a minimum of three hours pay when they are unexpectantly called back to work and have to leave their home? This is called what?
What is inconvenience pay?
The Family Services Specialist must ensure an Age 17 Planning Meeting occurs within this many days of the youth’s seventeenth (17th) birthday
What is 45 days?
the Departments efforts to keep a child in the most family like setting by keeping connection to the family, community and/or tribe...
What is the Least Restrictive Alternative?
identifies specific behavior and circumstances that must exist within a child’s home for the child who is placed to return...
What are Conditions for Return ?
Often used in cases where sexual abuse is alleged. Produces evidence that will be admissible in court if investigation leads to criminal prosecution. Reduces child trauma by minimizing the number of times a child is asked to relate to an abusive event...
What is a forensic interview?
This does not apply to:
(1) A Tribal court proceeding;
(2) A proceeding regarding a criminal act that is not a status offense;
(3) An award of custody of the Indian child to one of the parents including, but not limited to, an award in a divorce proceeding; or
(4) A voluntary placement that either parent, both parents, or the Indian custodian has, of his or her or their free will, without a threat of removal by a State agency, chosen for the Indian child and that does not operate to prohibit the child’s parent or Indian custodian from regaining custody of the child upon demand.
What is ICWA?
-To participate in the development of your case plan
- To be placed in a home with your brothers and sisters when possible and to maintain regular and unrestricted contact with siblings as identified as appropriate in the case plan.
-To send and receive unopened mail and make and receive confidential phone calls as identified as appropriate in the case plan
-To be allowed the opportunity to obtain employment beginning at age 16 as identified as appropriate in the case plan.
What are Rights of Youth in Care?
Child's concurrent goal must be identified by...
What is the 5th month of the case?
(unless identified in initial case plan)
The four stages of PCA.
What are preparation, introduction, discovery and planning?
If the non-resident parent expresses an interest in caring for the child, and there is no evidence that they are unfit to do so placement of the child should be considered when?
What is immediately?
(An expedited placement can occur if the child has a significant relationship, the non-resident parent lives in South Dakota and the non-resident parent meets the requirements for an expedited placement.)
allows a parent to voluntarily leave their baby with an emergency medical service provider or child placement agency, if the child is less than 60 days of age. The parent may be asked for medical information related to the child's medical history, however the parent will NOT be required to provide any information, including their name or the other parent's name. . .
What is baby moses law ?
When a youth does have a credit report, the Supervisor must send the credit report information to the Regional Manager and Independent Living Services Program Specialist within.
What is 5 days from receipt of credit report ?
When a child is removed from a level 2 home (a home where meth is being used by not manufactured) and there are no immediate medical concerns, the child must be seen by a medical provider within how long?
What is 72 hours?
(a urine test should be done within 6 hours if possible)
pg168 protective services
The only time a PCA Case Plan process is not completed...
What is when absolutely no successful efforts to locate a parent occur during the case?
( Supervisory consultation needs to occur and documentation of efforts needs to be entered into ongoing narrative. )
Can be evaluated for up to 6 months, at which the child shall be discharged from placement. Even when legal responsibility for the child continues, At this time the case becomes an in-home case.
What is a trial home visit?
The only thing consistent with CPS??
What is Lack of Consistency?