Glossary Fiscal Year 2000 - Children's Administration
Children's Administration promotes families and seeks to ensure the safety
and protection of children. CA both provides direct services and works in
partnership with community-based public and private organizations.
Adoption and Adoption Support:
Children's Administration provides both Adoption Services and Adoption
Support. (1) Adoption Services provide opportunities to permanently
place in families children in DSHS's custody.Services include permanency
planning, adoption preparation, placement supervision, and some limited
post-adoption services. (2) Adoption Support encourages adoption
of hard-to-place children from DSHS foster care and adoption of children
who, because of age, race, physical condition, or emotional health,
would not otherwise be placed for adoption. This service eliminates
barriers to the adoption of such children by providing financial assistance;
medical, counseling and rehabilitative services; and assistance with
legal fees for adoption finalization
Child Care Services: This category
includes Seasonal and Teen Parent Child Care as well as Therapeutic
and CPS/CWS Child Care. Seasonal Child Care is provided to the
children of parents who work only during certain times of the year (e.g.
farm workers). Teen Parent Child Care is provided to the children
of teenage parents.
CA also provides Child Care to two groups of children with special
emotional needs. (1) Children at risk of child abuse and neglect receive
Therapeutic Child Development. (2) Children whose families are in need
of respite, treatment, or parent education receive CPS/CWS Child Care.
Note: CSDB client counts for Child Care Services include both
the children being served and their parents.
Child Welfare Services (CWS) Case Management:
CWS Services are designed to strengthen, supplement, or substitute for
parental care and supervision. CWS Services may involve substitute care
such as Foster Care or Adoption placements.
Crisis Care Services: CA provides emergency
placement resources for children pending family reunification or out-of-home
placement to longer-term Family Foster Care or Group Care. Crisis Care
includes Interim Care and Crisis Residential Centers (CRC) that are
semi-secure or secure facilities. Three types of CRCs are utilized:
Regional, Group, and Family beds. Crisis Care also includes costs associated
with clothing or personal incidentals purchased for children placed
in CRCs.
Child Protective Services (CPS) Case Management:
CPS workers provide family services to reduce risk and maintain children
in their own homes. CPS cases are accepted for investigation based on
a risk assessment which includes a sufficiency screen for new referrals,
an initial risk assignment and response designation, and collateral
contacts with key witnesses or information sources. CPS cases receive
24-hour intake, assessment, and emergency intervention services. Ongoing
CPS includes direct treatment, coordination and development of community
services, legal intervention, and case monitoring.
DLR Child Protective Services (CPS) Case Management:
Division of Licensing Resources (DLR) CPS workers provide
services similar to those provided by DCFS CPS workers. However, DLR
CPS involves only those children who have been placed in some form of
out-of-home care.
Family Reconciliation Services (FRS)
Case Management: FRS helps families and their runaway or conflict-ridden
adolescent members. FRS involves three components: (1) 24-hour Intake
and Assessment; (2) longer-term Crisis Counseling provided by county-contracted
counselors; and (3) Intensive Services provided by counselors who work
closely with families to avoid imminent out-of-home placements.
Foster Care Services: Foster Care Services
are provided to children and families who need short-term or temporary
protection because they are abused, neglected, and/or involved in family
conflict. The goal of Foster Care Support Services is to return children
to their homes or to find another permanent home as early as possible.
Children are served either in their own homes or in out-of-home placements.
Also included are support services received by children while in foster
care: clothing and personal incidentals, psychological evaluation and
treatment, personal care services, transportation, and payments made
to foster parents for respite and for additional supervision for special
activities.
Notes: (1) CSDB client counts for Foster Care Support Services
include both the children being served and their families. (2) Children
receiving Foster Care Support Services may be served in their own homes
as well as in out-of-home placements. (3) Foster Care Support Services
may be provided without prior Child Protective Services (CPS)
involvement.
Foster Care Placement Services:
Foster Care Placement Services are provided when children need short-term
or temporary protection because they are abused, neglected, and/or involved
in family conflict. The goal of Foster Care Placement Services is to
return children to their homes or to find another permanent home as
early as possible. Children are served in out-of-home placements. Placement
types include traditional Foster Care Placements as well as placements
in Family Receiving Homes.
Notes: (1) CSDB client counts for Foster Care Placement
Services include only the children being served, not their families. (2)
Children receiving Foster Care Placement Services are served exclusively
in out-of-home settings. (3) Foster Care Placement Services may be
provided without prior Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement.
Group Treatment Care:
Includes Group Care, Treatment Foster Care, and Special Models of Group
Care. Treatment may occur in either in-home or out-of-home settings
with length of service ranging from 3 to 18 months. Group Care
(Levels 2 and 3 as well as Residential Treatment) and Treatment Foster
Care placements serve children with emotional and/or behavioral
difficulties which exceed the service or supervision capacity of regular
foster care families. Special Models of Group Care includes the
following specialized treatment services for children with particular
difficulties: special model residential treatment and aftercare; special
treatment facilities for children who are both developmentally disabled
and mentally ill; special care for medically fragile children; and out-of-state
group care. Group Treatment Care may also include the following:
Children's Hospitalization Alternatives Program (CHAP) In-Home
Services: As an alternative to foster placement, children receive the
full range of CHAP services while living at home.
In-home Continuum of Care (wrap-around) Services: CA funds in-home
service plans for children leaving residential treatment facilities.
Sexually Aggressi/ms/rdave Youth (SAY): Payment for tests, equipment, or
emergency intervention services related to the treatment of children
who have been sexually aggressi/ms/rdave to others.
Early/Enhanced Discharge and After Care (EDAC) services.
Services for autistic children
Additional supervision
Clothing and personal incidentals
Transportation
Legal services
Home Based Services: CA provides individualized
services to help families who are at risk of child placement or are
in need of reunification. Home Based Services may include traditional
child welfare services, such as parent aides or counseling, and/or support
centered around basic needs, such as clothing, shelter, employment,
and transportation. Home Based Services also include various family
preservation services
Some services are small and unlike others. Programs may choose to include
these in the program total only, rather than include them with dissimilar
services. Client counts and expenditures for the following services are reported
in the program total only:
Personal Care Nurse Oversight: Authorizations for Title
XIX Personal Care Nurse Oversight services for children with special
needs.
First Steps Social Services: Evaluation by a CSO First Steps social worker
of all pregnant household members who apply for or are receiving financial,
medical, and/or food stamp benefits. Clients receive an assessment and are
linked as necessary to case management or other health support services.
Child Care Registration:
Payment of a fee to register a child in a licensed Child Care
facility.
Child Care Registration Infant Bonus: Payment of a $250
infant bonus to a licensed or certified Child Care provider.
Independent Living Skills (ILS)
Support: Payment for enhanced non-maintenance services for children
16 or older living in a CA-paid placement who are not receiving
contracted ILS services.
Changes from the Needs Assessment Data Base (NADB) produced for Fiscal Year 94:
Client counts for "Foster Care" in NADB for Fiscal Year 94 were reported only for
those children in out-of-home placements. Client counts for "Foster Care
Services" in CSDB for Fiscal Year 99 are reported for children in their own homes as
well as for those in out-of-home placements.
Changes from CSDB for Fiscal Year 99
Client counts for "Foster Care Services" in CSDB for Fiscal Year 99 were reported
for children in their own homes as well as for those in out-of-home
placements. In CSDB for Fiscal Year 00, Foster Care is broken down into 2 service
categories: (1) Foster Care Support Services and (2) Foster Care Placement
Services.
Foster Care Support Services are supportive services provided to children
and their families either in their own homes or in out-of-home
placements.
Foster Care Placement Services include only the children being served, not
their families. Children are served exclusively in out-of-home placements.
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