Family Assessment Change Strategy

This publication operationalizes Family Centered Practice in the Family Assessment Change Strategy (FACS). This approach to CPS decision making, practice, and service delivery is based on over a decade of extensive work in CPS performed nationally by ACTION for Child Protection. Specifically, FACS is a revised version of the Child at Risk Field Decision Making Service Delivery System which has been successfully implemented in the field since 1985.
$30.00

Child Protective Services Risk Management - A Decision Making Handbook

This handbook provides CPS staff with excellent material having to do with virtually every aspect of their job. Identifying the CPS process as consisting of eight steps (Intake, Initial Assessment, Safety Evaluation and Plan, Family Assessment, Treatment Planning, Service Provision, Case Evaluation and Case Closure) these steps are addressed in detail. Additional appendices cover areas such as Child Development, Parenting, Family Systems Theory, Communication, Cultural Sensitivity, Interviewing Principles and Techniques and Domestic Violence.
$30.00

Family-Based Child Protective Services Self-Directed Learning Curriculum
A Practical Self-Directed Learning System for New and Seasoned Caseworkers

Maximize Your Training Opportunities with the Self-Directed Learning System

The demands on caseworkers are intense, and the need for both initial and ongoing training is critical. Yet, seldom is there sufficient time for a rigid class schedule. The Family-Based Child Protective Services Self-Directed Learning Curriculum is a proven training mechanism that provides an excellent foundation for new staff members and serves as an indispensable resource tool for tenured staff. The carefully structured Curriculum employs concepts, definitions, selected readings, video lectures and interviews, written exercises, case reviews and other support materials geared toward specific learning objectives. Most importantly, this is a self-directed, self-paced program that reduces classroom dependency and keeps your staff on the job.

To learn more about how your agency may utilize the cost efficient Family-Based Child Protective Services Self-Directed Learning Curriculum please email reed.holder@actionchildprotection.org or call 303-369-8008

Child Protective Services Workload Management Model

Agencies are being faced with unrealistic expectations that their agencies should be responsible for more cases and more and different work responsibilities while their internal resources remain the same or decrease. They are realizing that to try to respond and serve beyond their capacity, they are not serving anyone very well. Agencies must develop good public relations skills to let the public, local lawmakers, etc. know what their limits are. Workload management requires a close examination of all those factors which contribute to demand as well as those factors which characterize capacity. Use this Model to develop your own ideas and strategies through: self-evaluation; selection of alternatives; use of public relations; and implementation of selected workload solutions.
$30.00

SAFE (Safety Assessment and Family Evaluation) - A Safety Intervention Model

This comprehensive approach to safety intervention and management begins at the receipt of the referral, operates throughout the CPS process and does not conclude until the case is officially closed to CPS. The use of SAFE is intended to prevent the automatic removal of children from the home by employing a family centered orientation to managing safety.
$20.00

The Smith Family

This video provides a demonstration of a family-based approach during initial contact and assessment of a substance abuse case situation involving lack of supervision. An interview with the children is followed by interviews with the mother and her companion. The video concludes with a family conference concerned with safety.
$75.00

The Dutton - McAdams Family

This domestic violence situation involving physical abuse of a toddler presenting family centered interviewing with a passive mother and resistant, angry father. The video concludes with a discussion concerning forming a family partnership to protect the child.
$75.00

Assessing Safety Influences

This video presents 5 interviewing vignettes focusing on the identification and examination of threats to child safety.
$50.00

The Smith Family

This video provides a continuing look at intervention with a substance abusing family. Each of the 5 steps to family assessment are demonstrated. The interviews generate an understanding of underlying need and the basis for a treatment plan.
$50.00

The Dutton - McAdams Family

This video provides a continuing look at intervention with a domestic violence family. Each of the 5 steps to family assessment are demonstrated. The interviews generate an understanding of underlying need and the basis for a treatment plan. This video is concluded with an interview concerned with the decision and plan for reunification.
$75.00

The Collins Family

This video consists of a series of interviews with prospective foster parents for the purpose of assessing and analyzing their appropriateness for providing foster care. It demonstrates a foster family assessment process which emphasizes various areas of study within the applicant foster family system.
$75.00

The Lane Family

This involves an initial assessment with a 19 year old single, substance abusing, hostile mom with a 3 year old bi-racial daughter. The referral involves lack of supervision and neglect. This demonstrates how a relatively unskilled caseworker can collect relevant and useful information in limited time. A family centered approach is applied.
$50.00

The Simmons Family Series

This series of videos of a domestic violence, neglectful family includes interviews and demonstrations of the intake / referral interview, initial assessment interviews with mother and father and the family assessment protocol. A family centered approach is applied.
$100.00

The Gordon Family

Concerned with a severe physical abuse report and an apparent violent, out-of-control father, this video demonstrates initial assessment interviews with the mother and father. A family centered approach is applied.
$25.00

The Leman Family

This video shows interviews with a troubled, depressed 15 year old boy and his depressed, verbally inaccessible, neglectful mother. The family also includes a failure to thrive 3 year old. A family centered approach is applied.
$25.00

A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse - Parts I and II

This depicts an initial assessment of a sexual abuse situation involving an interview with the 14 year old daughter, her mother and father. Interviews are conjoint between a social worker and police officer. Addressing denial is a major feature within this case. Additionally, the video demonstrates key interviewing techniques, collaboration issues and joining with parents.
$100.00

Demonstration of Interviewing Children

This video also involves sexual abuse intervention. The video covers the following issues: an interview with a 7 year old; a law enforcement interview; a safety interview; child preparation for court; child testimony; law enforcement testimony; and an expert witness.
$50.00
 

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