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202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment. Learning Objectives. Operate the Casey Life Skills Tools and web site; Recognize the philosophy and practice behind assessment and planning; and, Employ the Casey Life Skills Assessment (CLSA) with youth. Do you have additional objectives for today?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Learning Objectives
• Operate the Casey Life Skills Tools and web site;
• Recognize the philosophy and practice behind assessment and planning; and,
• Employ the Casey Life Skills Assessment (CLSA) with youth.
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Do you have additional objectives for today?
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Current Practice• How are you and your colleagues
assessing youth’s needs? • What do you do with the results?
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Foundations of Casey’s work• Youth centered;• Expert-focused;• Strength-based;• Developmentally appropriate;• Diverse and anti-racist; and• Useful for setting case goals.
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Youth-Driven and Strength-Based
• Developed with youth– “Nothing about us without us!”
• Asks what youth are capable of – “Knows or is able to…”
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What is the Casey Life Skills Assessment?
• Free, online tool that assess youth’s life skills • A measure of youth confidence in their future
and permanent connections to caring adults • Designed to be as free as possible from gender,
ethnic, and cultural biases • Comprehensive with 113 assessment items
categorized into 8 areas for skills, knowledge, and awareness
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Is the CLSA a test?
• NO! • It is a self reporting instrument that gives
youth and caregivers an opportunity to focus on their strengths and identify any challenge areas
• Promotes youths’ active engagement in planning and making decisions about their future
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What areas are assessed? • Daily Living • Self Care• Relationships and Communication• Housing and Money Management• Work and Study• Career and Education Planning• Looking Forward • Permanency
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CLSA Assessment Supplements
• American Indian • Healthy Pregnancy • Parenting Infants • Parenting Children• Assessing Youth Ages 8-9, 10-13• Homeless• LGBTQ
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CLSA Education Supplements
• Upper Elementary School• Middle School or Junior High School• High School• Postsecondary Education or Training• Education Supports
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Casey Life Skills ToolsAssessment
Results
The Conversatio
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Learning Plan
Instruction
Application
Monitoring
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Getting Started
• Create a provider account at www.caseylifeskills.org
• Create personal login • Invite/Add caseworkers • Requesting a user account • Editing provider profile and other
administrative functions
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Accessing the Website
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How to Complete an Assessment: Youth
• Four options for youth – Take assessment on caseworker’s computer– Complete assessment via web link – Use printed assessment – Use his or her login account with user name and
password
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How to Complete an Assessment: Caregivers
• Three options for caregivers – Take assessment on caseworker’s computer– Complete assessment via web link – Use printed assessment
• Be sure to create the caregiver assessment from the correct youth name
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Completing an Assessment and Understanding the Results
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The Conversation – How to Discuss the Assessment
Results • Always begin with the areas of strength.• Move to areas of challenge – never
weaknesses.• What is the area of greatest
disagreement?• Identify learning goals.
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Understanding Individual Learning Style
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic
• Visual
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Learning Levels
• Awareness
• Knowledge and understanding
• Knows how to…
• Can or is able to….
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Knows How To…
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Can or is able to…
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Developing a Learning Plan
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Questions and Answers
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