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Case Planning in Child Protection
Case plans are created by child protection staff and families together to identify goals for the family. Often the goals focus on maximizing children's safety and minimizing their risk of harm.
Action Planning: A Problem Solving Tool: Trainer's Guide (PDF - 77 KB)
Institute for Child and Family Policy, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service (2003)
Workshop for child welfare supervisors and managers that reviews components and steps for case and program action planning. Analyzes sample action plans.
Are the People Who Participate in Safety Plans Suitable to Do So?
ACTION for Child Protection (2004)
Explains Federal requirements regarding suitability of persons implementing a child protective services plan, and stresses the need for those identified in an in-home or out-of-home safety plan to be capable and willing to provide the care and protection the child's caregivers have not been able to provide.
Caregiver Involvement in Safety Planning
ACTION for Child Protection (2004)
Considers how families and caregivers can be involved and participate in safety planning, despite implications concerned with responsibility, authority, personal interests, and civil rights.
Case Planning for Families Involved With Child Welfare Agencies
A case plan is a written document that may be prepared when a child becomes involved with a State child welfare agency. This fact sheet provides information on when case plans are required, who may participate in the process, and describes the general contents of a case plan. Case plans typically include goals and objectives that the parents must meet in order to achieve a safe home for the child and timeframes for achieving those goals.
Immediate Evaluation of the Safety Plan
ACTION for Child Protection (2005)
Provides strategies for evaluating the safety plans of transferred child protective services cases.
Integrating Caregiver Protective Capacities into Case Plans
ACTION for Child Protection (2005)
Discusses the Protective Capacity Assessment to evaluate caregivers' behavioral, cognitive, and emotional protective capacities and how to address them in the case plan.
The Protective Capacity Assessment: Addressing Threats to Child Safety Within the Case Plan
ACTION for Child Protection (2005)
Describes the structured interactive assessment process that is intended to build partnerships with caregivers in order to identify and gain agreement on changes related to child safety, and to develop plans that will effectively address caregiver protective capacities and child needs.
Safety Management Within Safety Plans
ACTION for Child Protection (2004)
Discusses key components and strategies for implementing action steps.
Tough Problems, Tough Choices: Guidelines for Needs-Based Service Planning in Child Welfare (PDF - 55 KB)
American Humane Association (2003)
Offers a framework for decision-making to help professionals develop child- and family-specific case plans based on best practice concepts. Download sections of the Casey Outcomes and Decision-Making Guidelines.
The Transition to Group Decision Making in Child Protection Cases: Obtaining Better Results for Children and Families
Edwards & Sagatun-Edwards
Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 58(1), 2007
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Examines changes in community professionals’ responses to child abuse and neglect, with a particular focus on the expanding use of groups and the inclusion of families in these groups to make better decisions.
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