HD FS 258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Study Guide, Least Restrictive Environment, Family Preservation
28 Feb 2017
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Goal of in-home services: keep children with intact families. Services facilitated and required by cps: family of origin, foster or adopted parents. Types of services provided: family preservation, wraparound. Types of families served: at risk for child maltreatment, perpetrators of child maltreatment. Evidence-based programs: parent-training (pcit, incredible years, family-focused (fft, mst, california evidence-based clearinghouse. Kinship care: cps has some expectation that there are available family members (biological relatives) who are capable of caregiving. Must be properly trained in dealing with a child who has been abused. Interview or assessment involved: you have more investment in the success of a child if you are biologically related. Foster care: when a child is placed in a temporary home with people in the foster care system. Treatment foster care: more therapeutic than it is temporary. Goal: adoption (permanent placement with termination of biological parent rights) in 25% of cases.
