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Welcome to the Quarterly Welcome to the Quarterly FTM Facilitator Advanced FTM Facilitator Advanced

TrainingTraining Please make sure you have signed in. Please make sure you have signed in. In order to receive PE training hours In order to receive PE training hours

you must be registered for OCP 330you must be registered for OCP 330 Today’s session will be from 10-3pm. Today’s session will be from 10-3pm.

Lunch will be from 12-1pmLunch will be from 12-1pm Please remember to put your cell Please remember to put your cell

phone on silent or vibrate!phone on silent or vibrate! The next meeting will be at Macon The next meeting will be at Macon

State College on 11-2-09 @ 10amState College on 11-2-09 @ 10am

Family Team MeetingFamily Team MeetingDefinitionDefinition

The Family Team Meeting is a The Family Team Meeting is a planned event that brings planned event that brings together family, interested together family, interested people (such as friends, people (such as friends, neighbors, community members) neighbors, community members) and formal resources (such as and formal resources (such as child welfare, mental health, child welfare, mental health, medical, education and other medical, education and other agencies) that the family has agencies) that the family has invited.invited.

Family Team MeetingFamily Team MeetingIncluding FathersIncluding Fathers

Both parents should be included in family Both parents should be included in family plan development and the decision plan development and the decision making processmaking process

Policy requires that fathers (including Policy requires that fathers (including alleged or putative) are engaged in the alleged or putative) are engaged in the planning process and participate in the planning process and participate in the FTMFTM

Documentation must reflect specific Documentation must reflect specific safety concerns that would require safety concerns that would require having separate FTMs (for example having separate FTMs (for example protective orders, court ordered no protective orders, court ordered no contact with children, or other assessed contact with children, or other assessed safety concerns)safety concerns)

Case Review Findings Case Review Findings From the State Trends From the State Trends

ReportReport Documentation did not support Documentation did not support

concerted efforts to locate and concerted efforts to locate and evaluate absent parents, especially evaluate absent parents, especially fathers, which had a negative impact fathers, which had a negative impact on this Well Being outcome. on this Well Being outcome.

• • There was a lack of follow up with There was a lack of follow up with identified services being provided to identified services being provided to families to reduce risk or achieve families to reduce risk or achieve permanency plan. permanency plan.

Case Review Findings Case Review Findings From the State Trends From the State Trends

ReportReport Documentation did not reflect inclusion Documentation did not reflect inclusion

of all family members, particularly of all family members, particularly fathers and children, in the case fathers and children, in the case planning process. planning process.

Frequency of contacts with parents Frequency of contacts with parents continued not to meet the family plan continued not to meet the family plan goal requirements or state standards. goal requirements or state standards. Contacts did not address service Contacts did not address service provision and case plan goals. Lack of provision and case plan goals. Lack of meeting contact standards with parents meeting contact standards with parents was a greater issue in FPS cases. was a greater issue in FPS cases.

There was a lack of contacts, particularly There was a lack of contacts, particularly home visits, with birth parents when home visits, with birth parents when reunification was the permanency plan. reunification was the permanency plan.

Key Findings From the Key Findings From the State Trends ReportState Trends Report

All appropriate family members were All appropriate family members were not included in the FTM meetings. not included in the FTM meetings.

Family plans were not always Family plans were not always developed during the FTM meeting, developed during the FTM meeting, with the inclusion of family members. with the inclusion of family members.

Subsequent FTM meetings were not Subsequent FTM meetings were not held when warranted by a change in held when warranted by a change in the family situation, newly indentified the family situation, newly indentified needs, change of permanency plans, needs, change of permanency plans, etc. etc.

Areas Needing Areas Needing Improvement From the Improvement From the

State Trends ReportState Trends Report Diligent efforts to identify and engage Diligent efforts to identify and engage

absent fathers in the process were not absent fathers in the process were not documented. documented.

In many instances, birth father contact In many instances, birth father contact information was documented in the case file information was documented in the case file with no further follow up indicated. with no further follow up indicated.

There had been a slight improvement in There had been a slight improvement in identification of absent fathers; however, identification of absent fathers; however, more follow-up is needed. more follow-up is needed.

Frequency and quality of contacts with Frequency and quality of contacts with parents were not sufficient to meet state parents were not sufficient to meet state standards or address needs and monitor standards or address needs and monitor progress toward goal achievement progress toward goal achievement particularly in family preservation cases. particularly in family preservation cases.

Barriers to Father Barriers to Father Involvement in the FTM Involvement in the FTM

ProcessProcess What barriers have you faced in engaging What barriers have you faced in engaging

Fathers in the FTM process ?Fathers in the FTM process ? In small groups generate a list of the In small groups generate a list of the

reasons fathers give for not being involved reasons fathers give for not being involved in the FTM or Family Planning process, or in the FTM or Family Planning process, or not being more involved in their children’s not being more involved in their children’s lives (or could also be that they’ve heard lives (or could also be that they’ve heard case managers say fathers give). case managers say fathers give).

Elect a facilitator and cofacilitator to lead Elect a facilitator and cofacilitator to lead the group discussion. Each group should the group discussion. Each group should record their list on flip chart paper and then record their list on flip chart paper and then post their list on the wallpost their list on the wall

15-20 minutes15-20 minutes


ProcessProcess Case manager and systemic biasCase manager and systemic bias Overburdened case managersOverburdened case managers Mother’s gatekeepingMother’s gatekeeping Personal circumstances of the fatherPersonal circumstances of the father Case manager’s reluctance to Case manager’s reluctance to

involve a male perpetratorinvolve a male perpetrator Domestic violenceDomestic violence

Barriers to Father Barriers to Father InvolvementInvolvement

Not knowing he’s a dadNot knowing he’s a dad

Father has a new family to think Father has a new family to think aboutabout

Geographic mobilityGeographic mobility

Remarriage of either parentRemarriage of either parent

Psychological painPsychological pain

Barriers to Father Barriers to Father InvolvementInvolvement

Lack of financesLack of finances

Lack of confidence in parenting skillsLack of confidence in parenting skills

Lack of appropriate male role modelsLack of appropriate male role models

Lack of extended family supportLack of extended family support

Frustration in dealing with legal Frustration in dealing with legal system and bureaucracies system and bureaucracies

Strategies for Enlisting Strategies for Enlisting Mothers’ Support Mothers’ Support

Listen:Listen:

To what the mother is saying To what the mother is saying about the father. about the father.

To what the father is saying To what the father is saying about the motherabout the mother

Strategies for Enlisting Strategies for Enlisting Mothers’ Support Mothers’ Support

Assure safetyAssure safety Of mother and childOf mother and child

Encourage mother to look beyond Encourage mother to look beyond personal issues with the fatherpersonal issues with the father

Lifetime benefits to the childLifetime benefits to the child Extra support for her during rough Extra support for her during rough

timestimes

Addressing Barriers to Father Addressing Barriers to Father Involvement Involvement

PreventPrevent

Prevent further child Prevent further child maltreatment and emotional maltreatment and emotional harm to children by emphasize harm to children by emphasize to men their responsibility as to men their responsibility as fathers. fathers.


PreparePrepare

Prepare fathers by helping them Prepare fathers by helping them attain the knowledge, skills, and attain the knowledge, skills, and financial resources to adequately financial resources to adequately care for their children. care for their children.


EstablishEstablish

Help fathers firmly establish Help fathers firmly establish their relationship with their their relationship with their children. This includes the legal children. This includes the legal relationship and the parenting relationship and the parenting relationshiprelationship


InvolveInvolve

Involve fathers in the child’s life. Involve fathers in the child’s life. Most critically, involve the Most critically, involve the father in the case process. father in the case process.


SupportSupport

Provide fathers with ongoing Provide fathers with ongoing support that will help them support that will help them sustain beyond the life of the sustain beyond the life of the DFCS case DFCS case

Father Friendly Father Friendly ServicesServices

Value fathers and the role they playValue fathers and the role they play Address fathers’ needsAddress fathers’ needs Are supportive; not punitiveAre supportive; not punitive Are respectful of gender differences Are respectful of gender differences

in parentingin parenting Where possible, provide positive male Where possible, provide positive male

role modelsrole models Provide services at times and Provide services at times and

locations that are accessible to locations that are accessible to fathersfathers

Provide an environment that is Provide an environment that is inviting to fathersinviting to fathers

Fathers in Family-Centered Fathers in Family-Centered Child Welfare ServicesChild Welfare Services

AssessmentAssessment

Safety Safety PlanningPlanning

Out-of-home PlacementOut-of-home Placement

Permanency PlanningPermanency Planning

Service PlansService Plans

Re-evaluation of plansRe-evaluation of plans

EngagemenEngagementt


ProcessProcess What barriers have you faced in engaging What barriers have you faced in engaging

Fathers in the FTM process ?Fathers in the FTM process ? In your same small groups generate a list In your same small groups generate a list

of strategies/solutions for overcoming the of strategies/solutions for overcoming the barriers barriers to father involvement, engaging to father involvement, engaging fathers in the case process, assessing fathers in the case process, assessing fathers’ strengths and needs, and support fathers’ strengths and needs, and support services for fathers.services for fathers.

Elect a facilitator and cofacilitator to lead Elect a facilitator and cofacilitator to lead the group discussion. Each group should the group discussion. Each group should record their list of solutions on flip chart record their list of solutions on flip chart paper and then post their list on the wallpaper and then post their list on the wall

15-20 minutes15-20 minutes

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