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Title: THE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES REVIEW CFSR PRACTICE PRINCIPLES:


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THE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES REVIEW (CFSR)
PRACTICE PRINCIPLES
  • Critical Principles for Assessing
  • and Enhancing the Service Array
  • The Service Array Process
  • National Child Welfare Resource Center
  • For Organizational Improvement
  • A Service of the Childrens Bureau, U.S.D.H.H.S.
  • April 28, 2008

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What Is the CFSR?
  • A periodic review by the Federal Government in
    partnership with the State Child Welfare System.
  • Seven child welfare outcomes in the areas of
    Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being, seven
    systemic factors (needed infrastructure), and 45
    items/indicators are evaluated.
  • Areas needing improvement need to be addressed in
    a Program Improvement Plan (PIP).
  • Meant to be a continuous quality improvement
    process.
  • Best hope for an accountable child welfare system
    that continuously improves the achievement of
    good outcomes for children and families in child
    welfare.

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CFSR Practice Principles
  • The CFSR Practice Principles guide the entire
    process.
  • They are used to evaluate the States current
    child welfare system.
  • They also serve as a child welfare practice
    model, defining what child welfare practice
    should look like.

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What are the CFSR Practice Principles?
  • Family-centered practice.
  • Community-based services.
  • Strengthening the capacity of parents to care for
    their children.
  • Individualizing services.

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What do the CFSR Practice Principles have to do
with the Service Array process?
  • They are the core principles to be used to
    evaluate a jurisdictions current services.
  • They also serve as the blueprint for improving
    services so they are more effective.
  • They also serve as a guide for designing needed
    new services so these will be effective.

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First Practice PrincipleFamily-Centered Practice
  • Definition In the delivery of services to
    children involved in the child welfare system,
    the jurisdictions practice is to work with and
    support the entire family, including fathers, as
    we address the abuse or neglect of a child within
    that family.
  • Assumption The most fundamental needs of
    children, such as safety, nurturing, and
    belonging, cannot be addressed effectively
    without attending to the entire familys needs.

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Examples of Family-Centered Practice in Child
Welfare
  • Conducting assessments of the entire family.
  • Engaging families in developing the case/service
    plan.
  • Working with fathers as well as mothers.
  • Encouraging the use of family-based placements
    rather than institutional placements and
    temporary shelters.
  • Focusing on the broad and underlying issues that
    affect child safety, permanency, and well-being.

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Second Practice PrincipleCommunity-Based
Services
  • Definition Community-based practice first and
    foremost means that the services for families
    engaged in child welfare are provided in and by
    their community.
  • Assumption We focus our interventions within the
    communities in which the families we are serving
    reside.

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Rationale forCommunity-Based Services
  • Access we all heard stories of mothers traveling
    across town on three different buses to take the
    parenting class required by the child welfare
    agency.
  • Easier access to services means that families are
    becoming part of their communities in ways that
    will support them long after they leave the child
    welfare system.

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Rationale forCommunity-Based Services (contd)
  • Through community-based services we are also
    helping local communities reconnect with families
    in caring for children, with a focus on
    prevention-oriented services and supports.
  • Each community is unique in terms of the families
    it serves and the resources it has to serve them.
    When communities identify and then design,
    implement, and oversee services to families,
    those supports tend to be more appropriately
    targeted to the families that comprise that
    community.

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Community-Based Services Need to Be Evaluated on
their
  • Timeliness.
  • Flexibility (ability to individualize the
    service).
  • Accessibility.
  • Coordination of services.
  • Provision of services in the home.
  • Parental involvement in service design and
    delivery.
  • Respect for the culture and strengths of families
    and their communities.

12
Third Practice Principle Strengthening the
Capacity of Parents to Care for Their Children.
  • Definition Working with parents no longer means
    that we are doing things to or for them or their
    children. Rather, we are supporting them in
    being good parents and learning to make the best
    short-and long-term choices for their children.
  • Assumption Parents, not the State, should care
    for their children. The correct role for State
    child welfare agencies is to work with families
    to prepare them to care for their children. This
    prevents the State, through foster care or other
    placements, from assuming the role of long-term
    caregiver.

13
Examples of Strengthening Parental Capacity
Practice and Services in Child Welfare
  • Family preservation, family support, and other
    types of placement prevention services.
  • Practices to strengthen parents relationships
    with their children who are in foster care such
    as agency support for parental visitation with
    their children by developing clear plans,
    arranging flexible meeting locations and
    communicating the reasons for restrictions on
    visitation.

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Examples of Strengthening Parental Capacity
Practice and Services in Child Welfare (contd)
  • Conducting comprehensive assessments that
    identify the underlying needs of parents as well
    as the children and addressing those in
    comprehensive case plans.
  • Contact between caseworkers and parents,
    including the frequency, quality, and substance
    of the contacts.
  • Engaging parents in planning, especially making
    decisions about goals for their children and
    family. Parents are far more likely to engage in
    and commit to services that they have had a voice
    in developing.
  • Agencies developing systems for providing this
    type of support for parental involvement,
    including policies, practices, and strategies for
    communicating that this is the agencys
    philosophy.

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Fourth Practice PrincipleIndividualizing
Services
  • Definition The capacity of public and private
    agencies to address concretely the needs of each
    child and family and not simply providing
    services because they are available or are the
    latest program du jour.
  • Assumption One size does not fit all. Every
    family and child is different, as is their
    environment and the circumstances that brought
    them to the attention of the child welfare
    system. The ability to individualize services to
    parents enhances parental capacity to care for
    their children.

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Examples of Individualizing Services Practice in
Child Welfare
  • Involving parents and children, as
    age-appropriate, in the assessment process. They
    know best the strengths they bring to the process
    and where they need help.
  • Genuinely involving parents and children, as age
    appropriate, in the development of the
    case/service plan and service delivery.
  • Assessing services to see if they are truly being
    individualized.
  • Funding for services that are flexible enough to
    let staff develop individualized services.
  • Training staff on how to assess needs and develop
    service plans that will really help.
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