SWP DAY 1
This is the actual policy for all Kentucky DCBS protection and Permanency workers.
What are Standards of Practice (SOP)?
A belief or attitude that affects your understanding, decisions, and actions, and that exists without our conscious awareness.
What is Implicit Bias?
Strengths that may not be known to us or realized by our clients but are strengths our clients can use to build upon to prevent future maltreatment.
What are Useable strengths?
Interviewing in a structured way to obtain a client’s story or version of events.
What is Forensic Interviewing?
This key player represents the child's wishes and protects the child's legal rights.
What is the Guardian Ad Litem (GAL)?
Required State and Federal court to give full faith and credit to Tribal court decrees.
What is Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA 1978)?
The humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures that pushes one to challenge their own cultural biases, realize they cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process.
What is Cultural humility?
Kentucky's model that is based on a strengths perspective.
What is Family Solutions?
Giving the child time to settle in, get comfortable, get acclimated to the interviewer and room.
What is Early Engagement?
This key player initiates the court case by investigating, completing a risk assessment, and determining if court intervention is needed.
What is the Social Worker?
Accountability, Attitude, and Audience
What are the “Triple A's” of professionalism?
Unequal outcomes of one racial or ethnic group compared to outcomes for another racial/ethnic group.
What is Disparity?
Are used to stimulate conversations and often begin with “Tell me”.
What are open-ended questions?
Is normal and healthy and can form as anxiety or fear.
What is Resistance?
This Court was authorized in 2002 and is dedicated to the principle of one family, one Judge.
What is Family Court?
Is critical to being healthy physically, emotionally, spiritually, and professionally to be able to help families and children.
What is self-care?
A risk factor for neglect but does not equate to neglect.
What is poverty?
The intentional use of the environment and body to demonstrate respect for, acceptance, and interest in the family.
What are attending skills?
A technique that can help you de-escalate situations.
What is the Fact, Feeling, Principle technique?
This hearing is conducted within 72 hours after a child is removed from their home and placed in the temporary custody of the Cabinet.
What is the Temporary Removal Hearing?
Laws that the legislature passed and either signed by the Governor or were not vetoed by the Governor.
What is KRS - Kentucky Revised Statutes?
Refers to a specific family situation that is out of control, imminent, and likely to have severe/harmful effects on a child.
What is a safety threat?
Assists both the client and the worker in gaining a greater insight into behaviors and actions
What is Clarification?
Realization/Recognize/Resist re-traumatizing/Respond
What are the 4 “R” of Trauma Informed Care?
This is the SOP that provides guidance on Preparing for Court.
What is SOP 11.1?