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“Safety is the primary and essential focus that informs and guides ALL decisions made from Intake through case closure.”
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• Informs and guides child safety decisions throughout the life of a case.
• Provides precise language and clear definitions.
• Strengthens child safety assessments and planning.
• Will guide appropriate placement decisions.
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Children are considered safe when there are no present danger or impending danger threats or the caregivers’ protective capacities control or manage the existing threats.
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Children are considered unsafewhen they are vulnerable to present or impending danger and caregivers are unable or unwilling to provide protection.
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To determine if a child is safe staff must:
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nalyze identified child safety threats.
lan to reduce or eliminate child safety threats.
Child safety is CA’s first priority and must be assessed continuously throughout the life of a case.
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This graphic provides a high level overview of how professionals in all program areas continually
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Throughout the Life of Every Case
Gather Assess Analyze Plan
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The Child Safety Framework uses six areas of focus when gathering information.
1. Extent of maltreatment
2. Circumstances accompanying the maltreatment
3. Child functioning
4. Parenting disciplines
5. Parenting practices
6. Parents daily functions (outside of the role of parental unit)
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Throughout the Life of Every Case
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• Weigh all gathered information.
• Assign significance of information.
• Determine if safety threats exist.
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Family behavior, conditions or circumstances that create present or impending danger resulting in severe impacts on the child.
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Present danger is immediate, significant and clearly observable severe harm or threat of severe harm occurring in the present.
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• Can occur at anytime throughout the life of a case.
• Is happening now.
• When identified must have protective action(s) taken immediately to protect the child’s safety.
• Must be assessed on a continual basis – never stop assessing for present danger during the case.
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Parenting behavior that is harmful and destructive to a child’s cognitive, social, emotional or physical development that is likely to occur in the immediate or near future that could result in one or more of the following outcomes:
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• Threats to a child’s safety that are not immediate, obvious, or occurring at the onset of CPS intervention.
• Threats are identified and understood upon a full evaluation and understanding individual and family conditions and functioning.
• Without safety intervention one could reasonably judge the potential for severe harm.
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In order to determine that a threat exists the following five criteria must be met:
1. Potential severe impacts on the child2. Occurring immediately or in the near future3. Out of control4. Vulnerable child5. Observable and specific
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Throughout the Life of Every Case
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• Evaluate the identified safety threat(s).
• Understand how safety threat(s) are occurring and how they can be managed and controlled.
• Breaks down the safety threat to gain greater understanding of how it is occurring.
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THREATWhat?Who? When?Where?How?
PLANWhat?Who? When?Where?How?
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All children identified as unsafe will have a safety plan that controls and manages the identified safety threats.
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• Have an immediate effect, are accessible, and contain safety services and actions only.
• Will not be based on promissory commitment.
• Are developed with the family and are objective, clear, and understood by everyone.
• Control or manage impending danger threats to the child.
• Can be in-home or out-of-home.
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• Safety Assessment & Safety Plan
• Family Assessment
• Case Plan
• Assessment of Progress
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The Child Safety Framework consists of:• Collecting information about the family to assess
child safety.
• Identifying and understanding present and impending danger threats.
• Evaluating parent/caregiver protective capacities.
• Determining if a child is safe or unsafe.
• Taking necessary action to protect an unsafe child.
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