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Slide 1 - Welcome

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Welcome to Permanency Overview and the Practice Model training developed and presented by the Indiana Child Welfare Education and Training

Partnership.


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Slide 2 - Competencies

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In this training, we will address the important issue of permanency. By the end of the training, you will be able to: Define permanency according to the

indiana department of child services’ definition of the term. Recognize DCS philosophy and values regarding permanency. Identify how the Adoption

and Safe families Act of 1997 promotes permanency. And demonstrate how permanency is supported through the Practice Model.


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Slide 3 - What is Permanency

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According to the Indiana Department of Child Services, permanency is providing every child with a safe, stable, and secure home and family forever.


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Slide 4 - Permanency Philosophy and Values

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It is important for every child to maintain at a minimum one permanent connection with one caring and committed adult who will provide them with

guidance and support as they make their way into adulthood. Whatever the permanency arrangement, children must have the opportunity to maintain

contact, as appropriate, with people who are most important to them, especially siblings.

DCS emphasizes the importance for all children to have a permanency family and home. With support, DCS believes that every child can have and

deserves a permanency family and lifelong family relationships.


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Slide 5 - Permanency Philosophy and Values 2

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Children have the right to know about family members, and conversely family members have the right to know about children. Siblings are critical to a

child’s sense of permanency, and as a result FCMs must: place siblings together whenever possible, and coordinate visitations when children are in

separate homes as a means to support and facilitate the continuation of sibling relationships.


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Slide 6 - Permanency Philosophies and Values 3

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Finding permanency is child centered. This means that children should be involved and updated on the progress of their permanency plans on a regular

basis. This also means that children should have a child and family team to help them find a permanency family. These teams may be comprised of

biological parents, siblings, extended family, or anyone else that the child feels a strong connection to. It is also important to consider the child’s ethnic

and or cultural background, beliefs and worship practices, school, pets, and languages spoken when making permanency plans.


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Slide 7 - Four Elements of Permanency

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To achieve permanency, there are four elements which FCMs should take special care to address.

Physical permanency refers to a safe and stable living environment.

Emotional and relational permanency refers to primary attachments, family, and other significant relationships that offer trust and an exchange of mutual

feelings.

Legal Permanency refers to the rights and benefits of a secure legal and social family status.

Cultural permanency refers to a continuous connection to family, tradition, race, ethnicity, culture, language, religion, and other related factors.


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Slide 8 - What is Legal Permanency

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Of the previously discussed categories of permanency, legal permanency can sometimes be the most difficult to understand. We think of and measure

legal permanency as reunification, adoption, legal guardianship, placement with a fit and willing relative, or another planned permanent living

arrangement.

Reunification of the child with their family is the preferred permanency option whenever that can be safely achieved. When reunification is not

appropriate, adoption is viewed as providing the greatest degree of permanence.


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Slide 9 - ASFA

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The adoption and Safe Families act was enacted in 1997 which shifted philosophies towards childrens’ health and safety concerns and away from

reuniting children without regard to prior abuse or neglect. ASFA dictates the intensive in home services that must be provided to keep children in their

own homes and prevent removal. Resource care is viewed as a temporary service for children and their families. The ASFA also dictates the frequency

with which DCS must participate in permanency hearings. Click the DCS button at the bottom right of your screen to view DCS Policy chapter 6.11 for

more on Permanency Hearings


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Slide 10 - Practice Model

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Permanency is also supported by the practice skills: teaming, engaging, assessing, planning, and intervening. Teaming helps families identify a child and

family team. Engaging skills allow the FCM to identify underlying needs among other bits of information. Assessment skills help ensure child safety.

Planning skills help FCMs work with families to tailor plans according to strengths and needs. And intervening skills can help FCMs better understand

how well the current case plan addresses a child’s permanency needs.


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Slide 13 - Credits

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Thank you for completing part two of AFCARS training, developed and presented by the Indiana Child Welfare Education and Training Partnership.

This computer-aided training was developed by Jerry Gordon, Instructional Technology Developer for the IU School of Social Work, with special

assistance from Lori Dickison, Business Systems Consultant for the Department of Child Services.


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Slide 14 - Figures

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