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Achieving Permanence For Children in the Child Welfare System
Permanence - the word brings to mind thoughts of forever... safety... security. Yet many children in the system are not achieving permanence. This paper provides concrete tools and suggestions for practice and system changes aimed at improving child permanency outcomes. A GREAT READ!
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Activity Based Costing
In an industry filled with acronyms, now we add another: activity-based costing or ABC. This article will examine the basics of ABC, particularly in relation to traditional costing methods, and look at how to begin an implementation of ABC in your organization.
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An Effective and Streamlined Quality Improvement Process
An effective quality improvement process studies service utilization, outcomes,and cost retrospectively, concurrently prospectively. This paper provides a road map for achieving this kind of "real time" CQI system.
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Concurrent Planning in Child Welfare
Children need permanency--and concurrent planning is a tool to help social workers reunify children with their parents or find permanent connections if children are not able to return home. This article provides the framework for the creation of a Concurrent Planning Environment.
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Family Centered Assessment in Child Welfare
This paper explores the art of assesment and the ways to fully engage families in the process of telling their story, identfying their protective capacities and helping prioritize necessary services and supports. A great tool for the line social worker!
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Continual Quality Improvement: Creating a Process for Accountability
CQI is not the job of a unit or a person. It is an integral part of agency culture. This paper describes how to create an infrastructure that supports CQI as an active component of everyone's job.
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Recruitment and Retention of Resource Families
How do we find families willing to care for the children entering the child welfare system? How do we find families willing to partner with and mentor birth families? This paper provides suggestions and stories of success from around the country on the successful recruitment of resource families.
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Requirements for Becoming A Public Managed Care Organization
A Step-By-Step Planning Process To Function as A Public Managed Care Organization for Child Welfare Services
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Dual Licensure of Foster and Adoptive Families
Historical child welfare practice did not allow foster parents to adopt, or it strongly discouraged them from doing so through written and unwritten rules. This paper explores how Dual Licensure of foster and adoptive families can help support child permanency.
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Relationship Between Public Child Welfare Workers, Resource Families and Birth Families
Preventing the Triangulation of the Triangle of Support. Reading this paper may change the way you think about foster care and the role of resource families in the lives of children and their families. A MUST read!
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Family Centered Assessment Guidebook
Family Centered Practice requires that the entire system of care seek to engage the family system in helping them improve their ability to safely parent their children. This guidebook provides strength focused, culturally sensitive questions in nine domain areas that support and enhance family engagement. An invaluable tool for line child protection social workers!
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HIPAA Readiness for the Social Service Agency
This paper describes what HIPAA readiness entails for the social service agency. A great read for those just exploring HIPAA Compliance.
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Integrated Case Consultation Model
This model provides a strength focused, respectful way to review family progress and to improve the way in which case reviews are conducted in helping systems.
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Negotiating Risk-Based, Performance Based Contract
An Overview of Internal and External Issues - Entering into risk-based performance based contracts requires sophistication on the part of the negotiator. This paper walks the reader through a step by step approach to negotiating risk bearing contracts--a great tool for the contract manager!
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Application of Simulation Techniques in Child Welfare Case Rates
The use of case rates in managed care contracting seems to be on the increase with increasing numbers of organizations, from small practice groups to large child welfare organizations, are reporting case rate contracts.
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Supervisor's Guidebook for Family Centered Practice
This guidebook assists supervisors in helping social workers to practice in a more family focused, family centered way. It includes supervisory tips, case examples and best practice supports.
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National Overview: Medical Passports for Children in Foster Care
Children in foster care have inconsistent and unreliable health care coverage. This white paper considers innovations states are making in tracking health care of children in foster care.
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Permanency Pacts from FosterClub.Org
We do not want children to leave care without permanent connections to adults...but they do. Permanency Pacts are an innovative approach designed By foster children FOR foster children to help in this process. A MUST READ!
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Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination
The child welfare and juvenile justice systems have historically operated
separately, driven by divergent statutory mandates, funding appropriations,
mission statements, and service plans that dissuade collaboration,
coordination, and integration. A credible body of research, however, confirms
an undeniable connection between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency,
as well as other negative outcomes in multiple domains. This illustrates
the misguided nature of the silo mentality. This Child Welfare League of America Guidebook provides a wealth of information, case examples, research and best practices to move practice forward.
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