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Child and Family Team (CFT0 - Answer✅✅Refers to a group of individuals identified
by and with the family
-Members of the team most commonly include: parent(s); child(ren) (when
emotionally and developmentally appropriate); other concerned family members;
concerned persons from the community, including school/daycare staff; the
DCFS/POS Intact Family Services Worker and Supervisor; and service providers
Child Centered Collateral Contacts - Answer✅✅People who are identified by the
child and individuals who are part of the child's life such as day care, school, and
mental health
Foster Care Candidacy - Answer✅✅Recognition that one or more children in an
intact family may be at imminent risk of placement into substitute care if the
services outlined in the service plan are unavailable, refused, or ineffective.
Hand-Off Staffing - Answer✅✅Meeting that takes place between the Child
Protection Specialist and/or Child Protection Supervisor and the Intact Family
Services Worker and/or Intact Family Supervisor
,-Purpose is to provide the Intact Family Services Worker/Supervisor with the
information/documentation necessary to provide the family with adequate services
and interventions
-Will involve a discussion of the safety needs of the child(ren), the dynamics of the
case, the strengths of the family, and the service needs of the family
Initial Assessment - Answer✅✅-Takes place within first 45 days of case opening
-Preliminary assessment conducted by Child Protection Specialist/Intact Family
Services Worker
-Consideration shall be given to how th best meet the presenting needs of the family
in light of relevant safety considerations; including, but not limited to, referral and
linkage to various community services as deemed appropriate, Intact Family Services,
or possible court involvement
Intact Family Services Worker - Answer✅✅A family-centered change agent who
partners with families to use expert knowledge throughout the decision and goal
making processes providing individualized, culturally-responsive, and relevant
services for each family to ensure child safety, permanency, and well being.
-Assists in mobilizing resources to maximize communication, shared planning, and
collaboration among the several community and/or neighborhood systems that are
directly involved with the family to strengthen the family's capacity to function
effectively
Integrated Assessment(IA) - Answer✅✅Formal process that seeks to achieve the
identification of the behaviors, conditions, and issues leading to the child's
maltreatment and family's involvement; the child and family's strengths, supports,
and protective factors; and those services needed to achieve safety, well-being,
stability and to prevent out of home placement
Interim Service Agreement - Answer✅✅-Happens at 1st home visit
-Review the reasons why the case has been opened first
-A written agreement developed at the transitional visit with the family and the
Intact Family Services Worker, identifying immediate service needs during the
interim period between first contact and the development of the Family Service Plan
(which shall be completed within 45 days of case opening)
-Should be documented in a Contact Note
Minimum Parenting Standards - Answer✅✅A parent or other person responsible
for the child's welfare sees that the child is adequately fed, clothed appropriately for
the weather conditions, provided with adequate shelter, protected from physical,
mental, and emotional harm, and provided with necessary medical care and
education as required by law
Protective Factors - Answer✅✅Aspects of a family's functioning that when present
serve to enhance the safety and well-being of children and when absent serve to
increase the risk to children
, -Parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child
development, concrete support in times of need, social and emotional competence,
and healthy parent-child relationships
Relative - Answer✅✅Any person, 21 years of age or over other than the parent
who:
-is currently related to the child
-is the spouse, or party to a civil union, of such relative
-the child's step-father, step-mother, step-grandmother, step-grandfather, or adult
step-brother or step-sister
-the partner, or adult child of a partner, in a civil union with the child's mother or
father
-a fictive kin
-a person who is related to a sibling of a child in any of the ways described above
-Godparent
Fictive Kin - Answer✅✅person who has close personal or emotional ties with the
child or the child's family prior to the child's placement with the person
Godparent - Answer✅✅person who sponsors a child at baptism or a person in
whom the parents have entrusted a special duty that includes assisting in raising the
child if the parent in unable to raise the child
Service Planning - Answer✅✅Strength based, child focused, family centered,
trauma informed activity that is inclusive of who the family identifies as providing
support to the family and focuses on child safety by engaging the family's problem
solving capacities toward the end of enhancing their protective capacities to control
or prevent safety threats from affecting their children throughout the life of the case
Transfer - Answer✅✅Fiscal and planning responsibility for a case which is open on
CYCIS is changed, via a CFS 1425, Change of Status Form, from one region/site/field
office to another.
-A different worker is assigned when a case is transferred
Transitional Visit - Answer✅✅A visit conducted in the home of the family by the
Child Protection Specialist with the assigned Intact Family Services Worker to
introduce the Intact Family Services Worker to the family and review issues related
to the Department's continued involvement
-Needs to happen within 48 hours of case assignment
Consent to Receive Intact Family Services - Answer✅✅The Child Protection
Specialist who recommends Intact Family Services is expected to obtain a family's
voluntary consent to be referred for Intact Family Services.
-The Child Protection Specialist will document the family's voluntary consent in a
Contact Note - the Contact Note must include the name of the parent/guardian who
gave consent and the date and time consent was given