Charting the Course towards Permanency for Children in Pennsylvania: an Administrator's Overview
Charting the Course towards Permanency for Children in Pennsylvania: an Administrator's Overview is designed to give Children and Youth Administrators an abbreviated version of the 120 hours Charting the Course towards Permanency for Children in Pennsylvania foundation certification training for caseworkers. The Administrators are introduced to the federal, state, and local agency statutes, rules, policies, procedures, and best practice standards related to case planning. They will examine the entire casework process from case screening to case closure, the phases of the casework process and the interactional skills that facilitate those phases being completed successfully, and the strength based, solution focused method of casework practice. To view/download Charting the Course towards Permanency for Children in Pennsylvania: an Administrator's Overview materials, please click on the links below.
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Content
Content
Workshop Directory Page
Handouts
Handout #1: Agenda
Handout #2: Charting the Course Modules
Handout #3: Goal of Children and Youth Services
Handout #4: Legal Guidelines and Mandates for Child Welfare Intervention in Pennsylvania
Handout #5: Child & Family Service Review Outcomes
Handout #6: Phases of Casework Practice: Navigational Guide
Handout #7: Using Interactional Helping Skills to Engage Families in Child Welfare
Handout #8: Strength-Based, Solution-Focused Approach to Child Welfare Practice
Handout #9: Child Abuse Definitions
Handout #10: Overview of the Screening Process
Handout #11: Receiving a Child Abuse/Neglect Report
Handout #12: The Intake Investigator
Handout #13: Safety Assessment
Handout #14: Risk Assessment
Handout #15: Goal of Risk Assessment
Handout #16: Purpose of Risk Assessment
Handout #17: Safety and Risk Assessments
Handout #18: Risk Assessment Qualities
Handout #19: Pennsylvania Risk Assessment Interval Policy
Handout #20: Screening Form
Handout #21: Information Needed to Assess Risk
Handout #22: Pa. Model Risk Assessment Form
Handout #23: Risk Severity Continuum
Handout #24: Establishing and Documenting Overall Severity and Overall Risk
Handout #25: Case Planning and Case Management
Handout #26: Family Service Plan
Handout #27: Family Service Plan Review Requirements
Handout #28: Steps in Case Transfer
Handout #29: Steps in Case Closure
Handout #30: Aggravated Circumstances
Handout #31: Definition of Dependent Child
Handout #32: When to Petition Juvenile Court
Handout #33: Reasonable Efforts
Handout #34: Basic Rights
Handout #35: Juvenile Court Petition
Handout #36: Types of Hearings
Handout #37: Juvenile Court Disposition Options
Handout #38: Permanency Hearing Intervals
Handout #39: Items Discussed at Permanency Hearings
Handout #40: Permanency Options
Handout #41: Exceptions to Filing Termination of Parental Rights Petitions
Handout #42: What is Permanency Planning?
Handout #43: Basic Permanency Assumptions
Handout #44: 3130.67 Permanency Planning
Handout #45: Parker Child Permanency Plan
Handout #46: Concurrent Planning
Handout #47: Schedule of Juvenile Court Hearings
Handout #48: Legal Steps in the Adoption Process
Handout #49: Process for Locating Absent Parents
Handout #50: Grounds for Termination of Parental Rights
Handout #51: My Action Plan
Fran Kuhn Presentation
SB 611
So You Want To Know About Child Welfare Funding
The Casework Process
The Casework Process
