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
