What the what?
These are the two scales in which risk is assessed.
What are the neglect scale and abuse scale?
Child's clothing or hygiene causes negative social consequences for the child, poisonous substances or dangerous objects lying within reach of child, failure to provide child with clothing appropriate for the weather are examples of this type of neglect.
What is inadequate physical care?
This must have supervisory approval and may only be used to increase the risk level by ONE risk level.
What are Discretionary Overrides.
A type of DV incident to be excluded in the total number of DV incidents.
What is a DV incident between parent and child and/ or a child and child?
The types of intake not to be counted towards the total number of cases received on a family.
What are Rejected complaints?
The maximum amount of days in which a risk RE-assessment must be completed from the date of the initial complaint.
What is 90 days?
Substance use has negatively affected caretaker’s employment, family relationships; substance use has negatively affected caretaker’s ability to provide protection, supervision, care and nurturing of the child; substance use has led to criminal involvement are examples of type of neglect.
What is a substance abuse problem?
This is applied by the worker to increase the risk level in any case in which the worker determines that the risk level set by the risk assessment is too low. This may occur when the worker is aware of conditions affecting risk that are not captured within the items on the risk assessment and/or there are unique circumstances in the family that increases risk.
What is a Discretionary Override?
Something that is indicated by controlling, abusive, overly restrictive or unfair behavior, or over-reactive rules
What is Domineering?
The goal of out of home temporary wards who should be included as household members in a risk assessment.
What is reunification?
This occurs when an open case progresses and risk levels have changed due to participating/not participating in services or a change in the environment in which a child may no longer be safe.
What is a risk Reassessment.
Regularly acting without weighing alternatives or considering consequences, self-centered actions that regularly result in threatened or actual harm to the child are examples of this.
What are uncontrolled impulses?
A case in which an override to an intensive risk level is required.
What is a mandatory override?
Something that is scored on both the abuse and neglect scales, but with differing criteria for the scoring.
What is Domestic Violence?
Severity of past behavior, length of time since past incident, evaluation of services, benefit from services (including if conditions have been rectified), and vulnerability of child(ren).
What are the 5 needs to be assessed in a case of Threatened Harm?
This is the maximum amount of HOURS in which a risk assessment must be completed on the non-custodial parent's household if CPS is requesting removal of the child from the custodial home to be potentially placed in the non-custodial parents home.
What is 24 hours?
Self-conscious behavior, self-doubting, demonstrating feelings of inadequacy, describing self as a loser, misfit or failure are examples of what type of self-esteem.
What is low?
This must be documented as an override in MiSACWIS, even when the initial risk level scores as intensive.
What is a mandatory Override?
Intellectual, developmental disorders, ADD or ADHD, learning disabilities or any other significant developmental problems.
What are developmental disabilities?
The type of case that requires an assessment on the mother's home, but not that of the out of home boyfriend, when both are alleged perpetrators.
What is Failure to protect?
A friend or family member who encourages the caretaker to physically discipline children, discourages seeking services or encourages inappropriate parenting practices are examples of this type of social support.
What is a negative social support?
What is a category II Case?
Sexual abuse cases in which the perpetrator is likely to have access to the child victim, cases with non-accidental physical injury to an infant except in situations of substance exposure to an infant, severe, non-accidental, physical injury requiring medical treatment or hospitalization and that seriously impairs the child’s health or physical well-being or death (previous or current) of a child/sibling as a result of abuse or neglect.
What are the circumstances which require a mandatory override?
The exception to the requirement for a mandatory override for a non-accidental physical injury to an infant.
What is a drug or alcohol exposed infant?
A risk Assessment is required on all assigned investigations outside of these two exceptions.
What is a Category V, and/or when there is a preponderance of evidence of CA/N and the perpetrator is one of the following: a non parent or licensed foster parent