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Assessment of Progress Toward Case Goals
Resources for assessing a family's progress toward case goals.
Decision-Making Guidelines
American Humane Association (2003)
Presents guidelines for case plan development and child welfare service delivery, including a checklist of factors affecting abused and neglected children and alternatives for services and supports that may be provided to the family.
Evaluating Progress as a Safety Decision (PDF - 123 KB)
Action for Child Protection (2006)
Discusses requirements in the Adoption and Safe Families Act regarding evaluating caregiver progress toward desired treatment objectives.
Family-Centered Assessment and Goal Setting
Sandau-Beckler (2001)
In Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being: Exploring Issues in Policy, Practice, Theory, and Research
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Outlines essential components of family-centered assessments, including ongoing analyses of family dynamics and a creative system for tracking progress toward case goals. Discusses five major tools for developing family plans.
Life Skills Progression (LSP): An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk
Wollesen & Peifer (2006)
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The Life Skills Progression (LSP) instrument establishes baseline client profiles of at-risk families of children from birth to 3 years, identifies their strengths and needs, plans interventions, and monitors progress and outcomes to show that interventions are working. Includes instructions, checklists, forms, and a CD-ROM.
The Protective Capacity Progress Assessment: Indicators of Change and Intention to Change (PDF - 143 KB)
ACTION for Child Protection (2010)
Provides a method to evaluate, measure, and judge case plan goals to help develop a caregiver's protective capacity.
Risk and Resilience Ecological Framework for Assessment and Goal Formulation
Corcoran & Nichols-Casebolt
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21, 2004
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This article provides a rationale for the framework and identifies risk and protective factors across the micro, meso, and macro level systems. Implications of the resiliency framework for assessment and goal formation are discussed.
SCARF: Supporting Children and Responding to Families: A Family Casework Model with Client and Worker Friendly Assessment, Planning and Review Tools
Tolley
Child Abuse Prevention Newsletter, 13(2), 2005
SCARF promotes a strengths-based/solution-focused approach by drawing upon neurological development, attachment, resilience, and "good enough parenting" theories to inform assessment and planning. (PDF - 97 KB)