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Overview of the Safety Assessment and Management Process
Bryle Zickler, Human Services Program Specialist – OCYF
Jana Hitchcock, Curriculum & Instructional Specialist - CWTP
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Agenda
• Overview of the phases of the Safety Assessment & Management Process
• Paradigm Shifts in Child Welfare Practice• The Steps of the Safety Assessment and
Management Process & the Role of the Private Provider
• Question & Answers
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Learning Objectives
• Recognize how gathering information on the 6 Domains leads to more informed safety decisions and effective safety intervention.
• State in precise and specific ways how the safety practice model supports decision making throughout the casework process.
• List the seven components of the Safety Assessment and Management Process.
• Describe how private providers play a role in the Safety Assessment and Management Process.
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What are the components of the In Home Safety Assessment and
Management Process?
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Assessment
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Steps in the Safety Assessment and Management Process
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How is the In Home Safety Assessment and Management Process different
from Out of Home Safety Assessment?
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Assessment
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Safety Plan
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Steps in the Safety Assessment and Management Process
of threats
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Why Implement the Safety Assessment and Management
Process?• The Child and Family Services Reviews
conducted in 2002 & 2008 determined that Pennsylvania was not in conformity with the Safety Outcomes.
• Child safety is a paramount concern.• Underlying concerns exist within families that
lead to safety threats to children.
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Resulting Paradigm Shifts to Child Welfare Practice
1. A shift from allegation-based investigation/assessment to an information-based, analytical approach;
2. A shift from compliance-based Family Service Plans to change-based, individualized, behaviorally-specific plans;
3. Understanding that safety is the responsibility of all staff regardless of their role and function. That is, safety concepts and practice provide the focus for all interventions; and
4. Understanding that CYS is an intrusive intervention, under state law and mandate, for children and families who cannot protect their children.
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What is the vehicle that will drive the paradigm shift?
Information!
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6 Information Domains
• Type of Maltreatment• Adult Functioning• General Parenting
• Nature of Maltreatment • Child Functioning• Parenting Discipline
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Risk to Safety Continuum
Enhanced Protective Capacities
Threshold
Safety Threats
(Present/Impending Danger)
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Serious
Serious harm could include serious physical injury, significant pain, and suffering.
Out of Control
When a condition is out of control, there is no apparent natural, existing means within the family network that can assure control.
Observable & Specific
The condition must be specific and observable in the form of behavior, emotion, attitude, perception, intent, or situation. The existence of condition is based on more than a gut feeling. The condition is clearly identifiable.
Vulnerable A child’s vulnerability is based on their
emotional, behavioral, and cognitive functioning; health; and ability to care for himself/herself.
A vulnerable child is susceptible to the effects of danger and is unable to protect himself from the danger. Vulnerability is not based on age alone. A teenage youth with disabilities that affect his emotional, behavioral, or cognitive functioning may be more vulnerable to a threat of serious harm than a younger child without any disabilities.
Imminent - A Specific Time Frame
Imminent means the serious harm could happen anytime within the near future—from later today, tomorrow, or up to but not exceeding 60 days.
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Two Types of Safety Threats
• Present Danger Threats • Impending Danger Threats
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Present Danger – an immediate, significant, and clearly observable family condition (severe harm or threat of severe harm) occurring to a child/youth in the present.
Immediate - This means that what is happening in the family is happening right before your eyes. You are in the midst of the danger the child is subject to. The threatening family condition is in operation. Its effects can result at any moment.
Significant - Referring to a family condition, this means that the nature of what is out-of-control and immediately threatening to a child is onerous, vivid, impressive, and notable.
Clearly Observable - Present danger family conditions are totally transparent. You see and experience them. There is no guess work. A rule of thumb is: If you have to interpret what is going on, then, it likely is not a present danger.
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Serious
Serious harm could include serious physical injury, significant pain, and suffering.
Out of Control
When a condition is out of control, there is no apparent natural, existing means within the family network that can assure control.
Observable & Specific
The condition must be specific and observable in the form of behavior, emotion, attitude, perception, intent, or situation. The existence of condition is based on more than a gut feeling. The condition is clearly identifiable.
Vulnerable A child’s vulnerability is based on their
emotional, behavioral, and cognitive functioning; health; and ability to care for himself/herself.
A vulnerable child is susceptible to the effects of danger and is unable to protect himself from the danger. Vulnerability is not based on age alone. A teenage youth with disabilities that affect his emotional, behavioral, or cognitive functioning may be more vulnerable to a threat of serious harm than a younger child without any disabilities.
Imminent - A Specific Time Frame
Imminent means the serious harm could happen anytime within the near future—from later today, tomorrow, or up to but not exceeding 60 days.
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Impending danger is:
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Serious
Serious harm could include serious physical injury, significant pain, and suffering.
Out of Control
When a condition is out of control, there is no apparent natural, existing means within the family network that can assure control.
Observable & Specific
The condition must be specific and observable in the form of behavior, emotion, attitude, perception, intent, or situation. The existence of condition is based on more than a gut feeling. The condition is clearly identifiable.
Vulnerable A child’s vulnerability is based on their
emotional, behavioral, and cognitive functioning; health; and ability to care for himself/herself.
A vulnerable child is susceptible to the effects of danger and is unable to protect himself from the danger. Vulnerability is not based on age alone. A teenage youth with disabilities that affect his emotional, behavioral, or cognitive functioning may be more vulnerable to a threat of serious harm than a younger child without any disabilities.
Imminent - A Specific Time Frame
Imminent means the serious harm could happen anytime within the near future—from later today, tomorrow, or up to but not exceeding 60 days.
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Key questions …
• What is going on now? How are safety threats manifesting?
• What must change?
• What must eventually exist?
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Protective Capacity:
A specific quality that can be observed and understood to be part of the way a caregiver thinks (cognitive), feels (emotional), and acts (behavioral) that makes him or her protective.
Protective capacities are specific and explicit strengths that manage and control safety threats.
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Levels of Protective Capacities
• Enhanced - the caregiver has the capacity and is actively using that capacity to protect their children.
• Diminished – the caregiver has the capacity but is not using it, due to life
circumstances or other reasons, to protect their children.
• Absent – the caregiver does not have the capacity at all.
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Informed Decision MakingRequires Analysis of all of the known Information…
And identification of potential supports, resource, and interventions.
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The purpose for safety intervention analysis…
is to analyze the relationship between specific pieces of information for determining the degree of intrusiveness and the level of effort necessary for assuring that a CYS safety plan will be reasonably effective in protecting a child.
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•“Analyze” has a different meaning than “assess.” Analyze means “to study closely in order to break down components or examine structure.”
•The degree of intrusiveness has to do with worker/supervisor judgment about what will be necessary to assure that a child will be protected.
•The level of effort has to do with the level of response, service or activity within a safety plan required in order to keep a kid safely in the home/prevent removal
The purpose for safety intervention analysis… continued
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In-Home Safety Decisions:
Safe: Either caregiver’s existing protective capacities sufficiently control each specific and identified safety
threat or no safety threats exist. Child can safely remain in the current living arrangement or with caregiver.
Safety plan is not required.
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In-Home Safety Decisions, continued:
Safe with a Comprehensive Safety Plan: Either caregivers’ existing protective capacities can be
supplemented by safety interventions to control each specific and identified safety threat; or the child must
temporarily reside in an alternate informal living arrangement. No court involvement is necessary;
however a safety plan is required.
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In-Home Safety Decisions, continued:
Unsafe: Caregivers’ existing protective capacities cannot be sufficiently supplemented by safety
interventions to control specific and identified safety threats. Child cannot remain safely in the current living
arrangement or with caregiver; agency must petition for custody of the child. Safety plan is required.
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When the Safety Decision is either…
Safe with a Comprehensive Safety Plan
Or
Unsafe…
A Safety Plan is required.
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A Safety Plan Must: Control or manage present and or impending
danger
Have an immediate effect
Be immediately accessible and available
Contain safety services and actions only
Not contain promissory commitments
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Information On A Safety Plan
Consider the following questions:WHO can make sure the child is protected?WHAT role will the caregivers have?WHAT action is needed?WHERE will the plan and action take place?WHEN is this action going to be done?WHO will make sure that the safety
intervention(s) take placeHOW is it all going to work? — Are the actions
sufficient enough to control safety threats?
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With a Safety Plan in Place…
• The threats to child safety are under control.
• The focus can shift to providing the services needed to enhance protective capacities via the Family Service Plan.
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Remember the Key questions…
• What is going on now?
• What must change?
• What must eventually exist?
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Family Service Plans
• Will shift from compliance-based Family Service Plans to change-based, individualized, behaviorally-specific plans.
• Will include information related to the safety threats and protective capacities that need to be enhanced.
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Remaining Questions…
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