Mini-CFSR Training

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Welcome!

• Mini-CFSR Training
• Presented by the
• Department of Family Services
• Wyoming Citizen Review Panel

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What are Mini-CFSR Reviews? Child and Family
Service Review

• Federal measures of good practice
• Safety for children
• Permanence for children removed from their home
• Well-being of children families

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What is Involved in Mini-CFSRs?

• Measures outcomes for children and families
• Determines if practice model principles are being
  followed
• Uses in-depth interviews with the people involved
• Results used for understanding improving
  front-line practices

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Why Do the Mini-CFSR?

• Accountability
• Measure progress on Program Improvement Plan
  (PIP)
• Give children families a voice
• Prepare for the next federal CFSR

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Child Protection Districts
SHERIDAN
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
DISTRICT 6
CROOK
SHERIDAN
LOVELL
Girls School 674-7476
DISTRICT 5
672-2404
GREYBULL
283-2014
GILLETTE
POWELL
SUNDANCE
PARK
OLD FAITHFUL
765-9453
BIG HORN
BUFFALO
754-2245
682-7277
CODY
684-5513
Kathy Deiss
587-6246
Boys School 347-6144
WESTON
TETON
CAMPBELL
WORLAND- 347-6181
746-4657
Ed Heimer
JOHNSON
WASHAKIE
NEWCASTLE
HOT SPRINGS
THERMOPOLIS - 864-2158
JACKSON
733-7757
CONVERSE
DISTRICT 7
DISTRICT 8
436-9068
PINEDALE
RIVERTON
WIND RIVER RESERVATION
CASPER
NIOBRARA
GLENROCK
856-6521
473-3900
367-4124
LANDER
334-2153
AFTON
DOUGLAS
332-4038
SUBLETTE
LUSK
358-3138
NATRONA
FREMONT
Richard Linson
886-9232
Jim Delozier
PLATTE
GOSHEN
WHEAT- LAND
TORRING- TON
DISTRICT 10
532-2191
322-3790
LINCOLN
CARBON
ALBANY
Keith Carter
SWEETWATER
KEMMERER
877-6670
RAWLINS
Carolyn Yeaman
UINTA
ROCK SPRINGS
328-0612
DISTRICT 1
745-7324
LYMAN
362-5630
LARAMIE
LARAMIE CO.
EVANSTON
786-4011
CHEYENNE
789-2756
777-7921
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Juvenile Services Regions
CROOK
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
POWELL
PARK
SHERIDAN
CAMPBELL


SHERIDAN
SUNDANCE
LOVELL
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4
CODY
GILLETTE
JOHNSON
GREYBULL
OLD FAITHFUL

BIG HORN
BUFFALO
WASHAKIE
TETON
WESTON
WORLAND
NEWCASTLE
HOT SPRINGS Thermopolis

JACKSON
NATRONA
WIND RIVER RESERVATION
NIOBRARA
CONVERSE
CASPER


AFTON
LUSK
GLENROCK
SUBLETTE
FREMONT

DOUGLAS
PINEDALE
RIVERTON
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2


LANDER
PLATTE
GOSHEN
WHEAT- LAND
LINCOLN
TORRING- TON
KEMMERER
CARBON
SWEETWATER
ALBANY
LARAMIE

UINTA
RAWLINS
LARAMIE
LYMAN
CHEYENNE
ROCK SPRINGS
EVANSTON

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What Does the Review Look Like?

• Each district region in Wyoming is reviewed
  annually
• Cases are selected randomly, but based upon area
  caseloads with at least one case per DFS office
• 2 reviewers for each case reviewed
• 1 from DFS
• 1 from Wyoming Citizen Review Panel

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What does it measure?Safety

• Protection
• Response Time
• Face to Face Contact
• Repeat Maltreatment
• Placement vs. In-home Services
• Reasonable Efforts
• Risk of Harm

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Permanency

• Permanence Stability
• Multiple entries into placement
• Stability of placement
• Appropriate goals for permanency
• Achieving permanency
• Connections
• Proximity
• Keeping siblings together
• Family visitation
• Preserving characteristics connections
• Diligent search for relatives as resources
• Preserving relationships

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Well Being

• Enhancing Family Capacity
• Family involvement
• Identifying strengths
• Identifying needs
• Service provision
• Face to face contact with children parents
• Education, Medical Mental Health

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2006 Mini-CFSR Progress
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What we have learned

• Improved performance on all 23 items
• Met the goal on 17 of 23 items
• Work to do in the area of permanency for children
  in out of home placements
• Still need work to preserve connections for
  children in out of home placements

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What is Family Centered Practice?

• Essential Elements of Family-Centered Practice
• The family as a unit is the focus of attention.
• Emphasis is on assessing and building on family
  strengths and on the capacity of families to
  function effectively.
• Families are engaged in designing all aspects of
  treatment and evaluation.
• Families are linked with more comprehensive,
  diverse and community-based network of supports
  and services.

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What do you see in this picture?
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• Thank you for participating in the introductory
  portion of the Wyoming Mini-CFSR Training!
• Presented by the
• Department of Family Services
• Wyoming Citizen Review Panel

Wyoming
Citizen Review Panel, Inc.