Change Based CPS Intervention

A Practice Approach that transforms ongoing CPS intervention

Change Based CPS Intervention

Combines proven approaches designed to support change among individuals and families forming an effective and reasonable way to do ongoing CPS intervention.

Ongoing CPS Intervention

• Returns power and responsibility to the client
• Supports client self-determination
• Interprets consequences
• Facilitates change
• Establishes a framework to effectively address child safety and permanency planning
• Theoretically Based
• The Trans-Theoretical Model of Change
• Motivational Interviewing
• Solution Based Approach
• First and Second Order Change
• The Competence Approach
• The Involuntary Client
• Family Centered Practice
• Characteristics of Successful Cases

"When considered from a national perspective as this study has done, serious questions about the nature and quality of ongoing CPS intervention must be raised. Currently, actual practice appears to be "people processing" while the concept of "people changing" appears to exist mainly as a state- of-mind." A National Survey of CPS Staff Conducted by the National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment

Change Based CPS Intervention

• A behavioral-cognitive strategy
• Application by an ongoing CPS caseworker or a designated service provider
• Structures concept based and time limited regulation fitting ASFA requirements
• Brief and easy record keeping
• Defines worker roles: facilitation, safety, legal, and case management

Change Based CPS Intervention Training Curriculum

• Two weeks, thirty hours of intensive learning opportunities
• Addresses intervention objectives and process
• Skill building laboratory approach
• Work teams consisting of four practitioners
• Multi-method, multi-media
• Special emphasis: prognosis, permanency planning, safety
• Portrays a precise "what you say... what you do" image of ongoing CPS practice