Case Planning and Intervening for Permanence: Permanency...

Case Planning and Intervening for Permanence: Permanency Overview

Friday, January 09, 2015

Slide 1 - Welcome

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Welcome to the Case Planning and Intervening for Permanence: Permanency Overview and the Practice Model training. This training serves as an introduction to Permanency Overview and the Practice Model; which you will take as a classroom course in cohort training. You will need your Permanency Participant Manual during this course. Developed and presented by the Indiana Child Welfare Education and Training Partnership.

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Slide 2 - Objectives

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In this training, we will address the important issue of permanency. By the end of this training, you will be able to: • Define permanency according to the Indiana Department of Child Services’ definition of the term. • Recognize DCS philosophy and values regarding permanency. • Identify how the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 promotes permanency. • Demonstrate how permanency is supported through the Practice Model.

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Slide 3 - Permanency Participant Manual

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As you view this training, you will complete the Permanency Overview and the Practice Model questions located in the front section of your Permanency Participant Manual. Locate the Permanency Manual now to complete the worksheet. You will see this icon appear on a slide when the content answers part, or all of a worksheet question.

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Slide 4 - What is Permanency?

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What is permanency? According to the Indiana Department of Child Services, Permanency is providing every child with a safe, stable, and secure home and family, forever.

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Slide 5 - Permanency Philosophies and Values - 1

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Every child should have at a minimum, one permanent connection with one caring, committed adult who will provide them with guidance and support as they make their way into adulthood. Whatever the permanency arrangement, children must have the opportunity to maintain contact, as appropriate, with people who are most important to them, especially siblings.

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The Indiana Department of Child Services has clearly stated Permanency Philosophies and Values. All FCMs should be familiar with these values.

• DCS emphasizes the importance for all children to have a permanent family and home. Finding permanency for Indiana’s children is a process that requires ongoing assessment. All FCMs must endorse these philosophies and values to help every child establish permanency.

• Every child deserves and can have a permanent family. • With support, every child can have permanent parents and lifelong family relationships.

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• Children have the right to know about family members, and family members have the right to know about children.

• Siblings are critical to a child’s sense of permanency. o Family Case Managers must place siblings together whenever possible. o Family Case Managers must coordinate and synchronize visitations when children are

in separate homes as a means to support, and facilitate the continuation of sibling relationships.

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• Finding permanency is child-centered. Children should be involved, and updated on the progress of their permanency plans on a regular basis.

• Children should have a child and family team to help them find a permanent family. Teams can include,

but are not limited to the child, birth parents, siblings, extended family, resource parents, other caregivers, professionals, as well as essential connections a child has formed.

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A child’s culture and other areas of life important to the child should be considered when making permanency plans. The child’s ethnic and/or cultural background, their beliefs and worship practices, their school, their pets, their favorite foods, their favorite games or activities or hobbies, and their language should be considered when making permanency plans.

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Slide 10 - The Four Aspects of Permanency

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Achieving optimal permanency, requires the balance of several aspects of permanency for a child. There are four that FCMs should take special care to address.

Physical Permanency, Emotional Relational Permanency, Legal Permanency, and Cultural Permanency. • Physical permanency relates to a safe stable living environment. • Emotional, relational permanency relates to primary attachments, family and other significant relations that

offer trust and an exchange of mutual feelings or regard. • Legal permanency relates to the rights and benefits of a secure legal and social family status. • Cultural permanency relates to a continuous connection to family, tradition, race, ethnicity, culture, language

and religion.

On your worksheet write down some examples of what is needed to achieve each type of permanency.

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Slide 11 - What is legal Permanency?

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What is legal Permanency?

• Measuring permanency outcomes is in one sense straightforward. But it is also complicated when you begin to differentiate, emotional permanence, versus legal permanence, and other nuances.

• Strictly speaking, we generally think of, and measure legal permanency as these: • Reunification • Adoption • Legal Guardianship • Placement with a Fit & Willing Relative • Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement

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Slide 12 - Reunification

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• Reunification of the child with his or her family, is the preferred permanency option whenever, that can be safely achieved.

• When reunification is not appropriate, adoption is viewed as providing the greatest degree of permanence.

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Slide 13 - Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997)

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Now, let’s address the Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997). • ASFA is a law enacted in 1997 that marked a fundamental change to child welfare thinking, shifting the emphasis

towards children's health and safety concerns, and away from a policy of reuniting children with their birth parents without regard to prior abuse or neglect.

• FCMs should frequently refer to ASFA throughout the permanency process.

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Slide 14 - ASFA Supports Permanency Planning - 1

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ASFA supports permanency planning by declaring that: • Intensive in-home services will be offered to keep children in their own homes and prevent removal

(e.g. preservation services). • Resource Care will be viewed as a temporary service for children and families. • FCMs will establish a permanency plan with the family.

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Slide 15 - ASFA Supports Permanency Planning - 2

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A.S.F.A., further supports permanency planning, by declaring that DCS will participate in permanency hearings every twelve months, after the date of the original Dispositional Decree, or the date of removal, whichever comes first. And more often, if ordered by the court. Permanency Hearing policies can be found under Chapter 6.11 of DCS policy. For more information, follow this link to Policy 6.11.

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Slide 16 - Practice Skills Intro

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Permanency is also supported by Practice Skills.

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Slide 17 - Learning About Practice Skills

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To learn about the Practice Skills, click on each title below. • Teaming – The teaming process helps families identify a child and family team that will support them in

the reunification process and/or provide insight as to what permanency and/or concurrent plan would best address a child’s needs.

• Engaging – Engagement skills allow the FCM to the family identify underlying needs, uncover hidden information about the family’s story, identify formal and informal supports, functionalize strengths that can help families ensure and plan for the safety and well-being of children.

• Assessing – Assessment skills can help the FCM ensure child safety and well-being through the life of the case. Assessment skills can also identify signs of safety, risks, strengths, and needs that can determine if permanency plans are working. Assessment skills can also help a family create a Family Network Diagram, and understand family systems.

• Planning – Planning skills help the FCM work with families to tailor plans according to their strengths and needs that will allow families to have successful outcomes to their permanency goals.

• Intervening – Intervening skills can help FCMs better understand if the current case plan addresses a child’s permanency needs and can help the FCM intercede with actions that decrease risk, provide safety and stability and promote permanency and well-being.

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Slide 18 - Thank You

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Thank you for taking the Case Planning and Intervening for Permanence: Permanency Overview and the Practice Model training! ELM will reflect your completion of this training within 24-48 hours. Developed and presented by the Child Welfare Education and Training Partnership.

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