Placement

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Placement and Permanency, Day 1
Trainer name Academy name
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Agenda Day One

• Pre-test
• Current California Placement Data
• Disproportionality in Child Welfare
• Practice Matters
• Considerations including policy when making a
  placement decision.
• Attachment, Separation, Grief and Loss
• Understanding Crisis

Theme for the day
DO NO HARM

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By the end of tomorrow What would have made this
worth your time? Objectives
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Child Welfare Today

• Lets see your
• Child Welfare Statistic I.Q.

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The world of placement for African American
children
THE FACTS
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Justice in Action Do the Right Thing!
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The Rules The Road to Permanency

• California Well-Being
• Sibling
• AB 408 Quality of life
• AB 490 Education
• Foster Care Bill of Rights
• Levels of care
• Telephone Access

• Federal
• PL96-272
• Reasonable efforts
• Family Preservation and support Act
• ASFA
• ICPC
• Cultural Considerations
• MEPA
• ICWA
• SIJS-immigrant

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PermanencyA Forever Family
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Faith's Story
Consider What was the impact on Faith? What has
she done to cope? How could it be better?
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Attachment

• How does Attachment help a child grow and
  develop?
• What skills will they develop if they have a
  healthy attachment?

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Toddler
Infants
Attachment
School Age
Youth
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Stages of Grief and Loss

• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance

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Grief Loss
What does it look like?
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Movie
Multiple Transitions A Young Childs View on
Foster Care and Adoption
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Crisis Theory
How bad it is depends on several factors You
have the power to lessen the trauma.
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Degree of Trauma depends on

• -How significant was the person?
• -Is it forever or just a short time?
• -Am I the cause?
• -What other attachments do I have?

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Understanding Crisis
Stress
Ability to cope
Perception
crisis
of event
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Activity

• On a tear sheet, list
• Important developmental issues
• Implications for Separation

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Take it home

• When I am back at work,
• I want to remember

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Placement Permanency,Day 2

• Good
• Morning
• Welcome
• Back

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What do you remember?
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Agenda Day Two

• Placement Considerations
• Family Decision Making
• What each child needs
• Planning with the family reducing trauma, visits
  and concurrent planning
• Involving youth
• Supporting placements
• Supporting Permanency
• Action Planning

Theme for the day
DO NO HARM

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Let us take you on a trip.
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Siberia
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CASSEL FAMILY

• HOUSEHOLD
• Dad Dan Cassel
• Mom Anita Cassel
• Children
• Raul Lopez (14)
• Ellen Cassel (8)
• Christina Cassel (5)
• Robert Cassel (3)

• RELATIVES
• Eduardo Rauls Dad
• Maria Anitas 1/2 sister
• Amparo and Jamie Anitas Godparents
• David Monica parents of Dan
• Deanne Ellens Mom

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Meet the Cassel Family

• As a group, answer the questions as a framework
  for assessing possible placement options.
• Remember you are not making a decision yet, but
  exploring possibilities.

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Where to Go Relatives vs Foster Care

• Relatives or non-related family members is the
• PREFERRED PLACEMENT
• WI 361.3.4
• WHY?

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Relative/Non-Relative Extended Family Member
AssessmentNREFM

• Preferred placement if Safe Best Interest
• Relatives need CLETS Live-Scan 14 yrs ? JAI
• Foster Care Licensing
• Others in home Criminal record statement

Assess ALL interested, except if there is a
record of criminal child abuse
Final Decision Case Carrying worker
Priority First Degree Sibling
Deny - ARA and Court Licensing concern- CAP
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Family Decision Making

• Pathways to permanence
• -Watch a family group conference
• How could this type of service help the Cassel
  family?
• What about TDM?

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How About Culture?
Does a forever family look different in
different cultures ?
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Deb Ortegas Story

• Think about
• The caregivers Who are they, who is she attached
  to, how many are there and what are the genders?
• How did these attachments and daily routine
  affect her sense of security and predictability?

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Choosing a placement

• Least restrictive
• Family
• Most like home
• Think culture
• Closest to home
• Closest to school

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What happens to the Cassel children?
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Plan for each child

• Develop a plan for the child you have been
  assigned. Complete handout entitled
• Cassel Family Placing each child
• Use
• Charts from yesterday
• Placement Protocols (Appendix)
• Preparing the Child

Think Santa Barbara
Chart key ideas
Gatekeeper 15 minutes
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Engagement Techniques

• What do you remember?
• What are the skills?
• What are the techniques?

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Engagement Techniques

• How, what, where, who questions
• Past successes
• Exception Finding
• Coping
• Scaling
• The Miracle Question

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Lets try it on

• Engage the Cassel Family
• Some will play part of family
• Others Alter egos
• Where do I go next - Wall resource
• Give me advice on strategy- engagement

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Do you REALLY want to reunify families?
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Reunification

• In outcome studies
• what service is
• highly correlated
• with successful reunification?

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Visitation
Every state in the Federal review has shown that
consistent visitation is highly correlated with
reunification
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Visitation
What is the primary purpose of visitation?
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PURPOSEFUL VISITATION

• NO TIME TO WASTE!

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Rules to Visits

• The younger the child, the more frequent the
  visits
• Visitation is a right (treat it that way!)
  not a reward.
• Activities should be planned and related to case
  plan and meet developmental needs
• Natural setting

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What can they do together?

• Lets go back to child development my favorite
  handout.

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Visitation for the Cassel Children

• Complete Visitation Plans for Cassel Children
• What would you be observing for?

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Concurrent Planning

• What is it?

(Read the definition in your handouts)
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Concurrent Planning

• Why the mandate for Permanence?
• What happens to children in Foster Care?

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Permanency
We Mean It This Time
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Talking aboutConcurrent Planning

• When?
• How often?
• Focus on need of child
• Long term placement bad
• Best if parent plan future
• Focus on your desire
• Every child has one
• Talk to all family about it

Forever
FR
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Try it on

• Start with role play
• Social worker
• can pass it on

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A plan for Raul

• What do you need to consider for Raul?
• How would you engage him in planning?
• What services are available for him?

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Strategies for Supporting Placement

• Handout Supporting Alternative Caregivers
• How would you support
• Maria
• David and Monica
• Jesuss Family

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Helping the plan stick

• Time to up services
• Lets look at some strategies to help the plan
  last
• Which ones would work for the Cassel Family?

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What do you want to remember?

• Spend a moment thinking about your practice
• What will you add to your practice?