Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers. 2003

Author(s): Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (DHHS), Washington, DC. DePanfilis, D., Salus, M. K.

Year Published: 2003

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Acknowledgments

Authors

Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D., M.S.W., is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where she teaches social work practice and child welfare research courses in the Master's of Social Work program and research seminars in the doctoral program. She is also co-director of the Center for Families, an interdisciplinary partnership between the schools of social work and medicine and the department of pediatrics. Over the past 30 years she has provided child welfare services at the local level as a caseworker, supervisor, and administrator; worked as a consultant at the national level conducting program evaluations and providing training and technical assistance to social workers and other disciplines; and conducted extensive studies related to the delivery of child protective services and the prevention of child maltreatment. She is co-editor of the Handbook on Child Protection Practice and is a former president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

Marsha K. Salus, M.S.W., is a social work consultant. She has worked in the child welfare field for 27 years. She began her career as a CPS worker and supervisor. She has developed several national curricula for child welfare workers and supervisors. She developed a number of preservice and inservice training programs for child welfare workers and supervisors in a variety of States. For example, Ms. Salus developed a 12-day core supervisory training program entitled "Mastering the Art of Child Welfare Supervision," which she has delivered throughout the country. In addition, she has provided training on all aspects of family violence to multidisciplinary audiences around the country. Ms. Salus has assisted State and local CPS agencies in program development and program evaluation and has worked with several States to establish standards of practice for child welfare supervision.

Acknowledgment of Prior Editions

This manual is an update of the 1992 publication Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers by Diane DePanfilis and Marsha K. Salus. The first edition of the manual was published in 1980 as Child Protection: Providing Ongoing Services by Cynthia K. Ragan, Marsha K. Salus, and Gretchen L. Schultze. Prior editions contained material based on Child Protective Services: A Guide for Workers by James L. Jenkins, Marsha K. Salus, and Gretchen L. Schultze, published in 1979. The prior work informed and contributed significantly to the content of this publication.

Reviewers

Beverly Heydon
Office of Law
Howard County, MD

Cathy Overbagh
Child Welfare Information Gateway

Kathy Pinto
Department of Social Services
Howard County, MD

Barry Salovitz
National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment

Sarah Webster
Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (retired)

Technical Advisory Panel

The following were members of the January 2001 Technical Advisory Panel for the User Manual Series contract. The organizations identified reflect each member's affiliation at that time.

Carolyn Abdullah
FRIENDS National Resource Center
Washington, DC

Lien Bragg
American Public Human Services Association
Washington, DC

Sgt. Richard Cage
Montgomery County Police Department
Wheaton, MD

Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D.
University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Social Work
Baltimore, MD

Pauline Grant
Florida Department of Children and Families
Jacksonville, FL

Jodi Hill
Connecticut Department of Children and Families
Hartford, CT

Robert Ortega, Ph.D.
University of Michigan School of Social Work
Ann Arbor, MI

Nancy Rawlings
Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children
Frankfort, KY

Barry Salovitz
Child Welfare Institute/National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment
Glenmont, NY

Sarah Webster
Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
Austin, TX

Ron Zuskin
University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Social Work
Baltimore, MD

The following members subsequently were added to the Technical Advisory Panel:

William R. (Reyn) Archer III, M.D.
Hill and Knowlton, Inc.
Washington, DC

Douglas Besharov
American Enterprise Institute
Washington, DC

David Popenoe, Ph.D.
National Marriage Project
Princeton, NJ

Bob Scholle
Independent Consultant
Pittsburgh, PA

Brad Wilcox, Ph.D.
University of Virginia, Department of Sociology
Charlottesville, VA

Other Acknowledgments

The third edition of the User Manual Series was developed under the guidance and direction of Irene Bocella, Federal Task Order Officer, and Catherine Nolan, Director, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect. Also providing input and review was Susan Orr, Associate Commissioner, Children's Bureau.

This manual was developed and produced by Caliber Associates, Fairfax, VA, under Contract Number HHS-282-98-0025.

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You are in section: Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 - Purpose and Overview 2 - Child Protective Services… 3 - The Helping Relationship 4 - Responsibilities of Child… 5 - Intake 6 - Initial Assessment or… 7 - Family Assessment 8 - Case Planning 9 - Service Provision 10 - Family Progress 11 - Case Closure 12 - Effective Documentation 13 - Supervision, Consultation… Endnotes Appendix A - Glossary of Terms Appendix B - Resource Listings Appendix C - Child Abuse… Appendix D - National Association…

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