Department of Children and Family Services

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Department of Children and Family Services

• C.P.S. Safety Plan Model

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DCFSChild Welfare

• MISSION
• To protect abused and neglected children, to
  support the efforts of families to care for and
  parent their own children safely and to provide
  quality care and permanent families for children
  in placement with parents, extended family
  members, Tribal members, members of other Tribes
  and Foster Parents

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DCFS HistoryBefore 2007, Identified DCFS Issues

• Critical staffing issues not addressed.
• Tribal children placed in non-certified homes
• Punitive case management was the norm.
• Poorly defined support services provided to
  Tribal families.
• Punitive system didnt allow parents to be
  actively engaged in case planning.

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DCFS Child Welfare Accomplishments

• DCFS adopted Best Practice Standards of Child
  Welfare philosophy.
• DCFS has become more proactive in the prevention
  area of Child Welfare (ieWrap-around services,
  Safety Plans, and Family Group Conferencing).
• This proactive approach is a new direction in
  Child Welfare from a prevention stand point.
• Almost ½ million dollars in direct payments went
  to Tribal children and Native families.

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DCFS Safety Plan ConceptFrom Punitive to
Proactive

• CPS developed this concept in an attempt to keep
  families together.
• Lowers stress and emotional trauma to the
  children.
• Reduces Disproportionality by 80
• Compliments Active Efforts.
• Provides resources to parents and family for
  support,
• financial assistance and/or other wrap around
  services.

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DCFS Safety Plan Concept

• Continued
• Reduced the number of families involved in the
  court system.
• By reducing the number of court petitions filed
  by utilizing prevention services.
• Direct family involvement.
• Shorter duration of all case plans.
• More options than the State in Pre-born safety.

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Safety Plans

• SAFETY PLAN
• Between DCFS and Daisy Duck
• Daisy Duck And DCFS, Child Protection Program
  enter into this Safety Plan for the Welfare of
  Huey Duck DOB 03/25/2002 and Louie Duck DOB
  11/02/2007 residing on the C.T.U.I.R., Pendleton,
  Oregon 97801. As described below
• Absent Preventative services, Foster care would
  be eminent.
• I Obligations of Daisy Duck, mother
• A. Daisy Duck shall provide for her child/ren,
  Huey Duck and Louie Duck
• in accordance with the safety plan
  below, in a satisfactory and proper manner,
• consistent with all the services provided
  by the DCFS and other professional agencies
  and/or
• programs.
• B. Daisy Duck shall ensure and provide the
  following
• Daisy Duck is to have a mental health assessment
  at Yellowhawk or a recognized mental health
  provider of choice and to follow their
  recommendations .
• Daisy Duck is to ensure that Huey Duck and Louie
  Duck is free from exposure to any forms of
  domestic violence and or child abuse, as defined
  by the CTUIR Juvenile Code.

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Continued

• Daisy Duck is to allow unannounced home
  inspections by DCFS at any time for the duration
  of this safety plan.
• Daisy Duck is to ensure that Huey Duck and
  Louie Duck is free from exposure or association
  with any persons or residence known to have a
  habitual drug history, criminal history and or
  registered sex offenders .
• Daisy Duck will sign a DCFS release of
  information form as needed to monitor and
  facilitate this safety plan.
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• II. Obligations of DCFS
• A. DCFS shall monitor Daisy Duck for the duration
  of the next 90 days, this includes monitoring Law
  enforcement reports if any and all mandated
  counseling reports as set forth in this document.
  
• III. General Provisions
• A. Daisy Duck understands that any failure to
  fully abide by this Agreement at any time, DCFS
  may take any action needed, to including taking
  physical and legal custody of the child/ren, if
  deemed necessary to insure the safety of Huey
  Duck and Louie Duck.
• B. The parties may renew this safety plan
  Agreement by mutual consent.
• C. This Agreement in no way obligates the CTUIR
  to future funding.

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DCFSIdentified CPS issues

• Drug Use
• Alcohol Use
• Domestic Violence, children present
• Truancy issues (written into current juvenile
  code)
• Neglect
• Abuse

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DCFS Child WelfareStatistics

• There were 80 Children on referrals for Child
  Welfare Services from Jan Jun 2010.
• The numbers of children by age range are
• 12 Children from ages 0 and 2
• 27 Children from ages 3 to 5
• 59 Children from ages 6 to 12
• 25 Children from ages 13 to 17

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DCFS Child Welfare Accomplishments

• 2009 (Jan Oct) Referrals                        
                      2010 (Jan Oct)Referrals
• Abuse                   35                        
                                     Abuse
                    56
• Neglect                 34                      
                                    Neglect
                 38
• Sex Abuse           11                          
                                   Sex
  Abuse           6
• DV                         10                     
                                        DV          
                10
• Truancy                4                         
                                     Truancy        
          2
• Other                    15                       
                                       Other        
              8
• Physical Abuse  9                              
                                 Physical Abuse 
  0
• TOTAL                120                          
                                  
  TOTAL                 125
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DCFS Child WelfareAccomplishments

• 2008 No Safety Plans
• Jan Oct  2009 Jan Oct  2010
• CPS intervention 10 CPS intervention 2
• Safety Plans 24 Current Safety Plans 31
  
• Wrap around Services 0 Wrap around Services
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DCFS Child WelfareCurrent issues of concern !

• One of the biggest obstacles with in the Child
  Welfare program is dealing with the Substance
  abuse problem within the tribal community.
• The average age of parents that Child Welfare
  gets involved with is between the ages of 20 to
  30.
• Parents placed in residential treatment, return
  to the reservation upon completion, and get back
  with their friends who are still abusing
  substances and end up falling back into the same
  substance abusing routine.

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Jan- Jun 2010
TOTAL 80
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DCFSWrap around services available

• Yellowhawk medical services.
• Yellowhawk Mental health, D.V. and Substance
  Abuse.
• CAPECO.
• Financial Assistance.
• Referrals to other service providers.
• Referrals to State funded service providers.

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Department of Children and Family Services

• C.P.S. Safety Plan Model
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