SDM Tools
An optional tool that is used to identify the family's strengths and needs in a collaborative process.
Family & Child Strengths and Needs Assessment
This is to be completed within 15 days of the assessment phase and in ongoing protection services, completed within 30 days of initializing protection services.
What is the time frame to complete a Family and Child Strengths and Needs Assessment
This SDM tool is completed prior to the creation of the Family Plan and helps to inform it.
Family & Child Strengths and Needs Assessment
This tool reassesses and determines the risk of future harm, and reassesses and determines the need for ongoing child protection services.
Vulnerability Reassesment.
Return to parent, continue family reunification focus and implement alternate permanency plan.
What are the outcomes of the Reunification Assessment?
Now discontinued, a forward-looking tool that considers factors that are known to contribute to the risk of future harm.
Vulnerability Assessment
Alcohol, Drug, or Substance Use/Abuse; Household or Family Relationships/ Domestic Violence; Social/ Community/ Cultural Support System; Parenting Skills/ Parent's Actions towards Child; Mental Health/ Coping Skills; Resource Management/ Basic Needs; Physical Health.
Effective goal setting requires these parameters.
specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
The Vulnerability Reassessment is completed through?
Clinical judgement and consultations.
How often should a Reunification Assessment be completed at the minimum?
Every 6 months in ongoing protection services (3 months if a child is under 5 years old)
A tool used to assess the immediate safety of the child/youth, to ensure no harm will come to them during the FDR or investigation process.
Safety Assessment
This policy outlines how often the FCSNA needs to be completed.
Policy 3.7
An alternative way of creating family plans outside of the standard Family Plan template.
Family Case Planning Conference or Family Group Conference
The vulnerability reassessment documents:
Who is in the circle, consultations, and decisions that are made based on information gathered through the reassessment process.
Determining appropriate access visits between parents and children in the reunification assessment requires you to assess these two categories:
The quality of the visits and the access compliance (ie visits attended)