Sentences with phrase «child and family services»

The Child and Family Services Reviews incorporate the following seven outcomes in evaluating State child welfare programs: (1) Children are, first and foremost, protected from abuse and neglect; (2) children are safely maintained in their homes whenever possible; (3) children have permanency and stability in their living situations; (4) the continuity of family relationships and connections is preserved for children; (5) families have enhanced capacity to provide for their children's needs; (6) children receive appropriate services to meet their educational needs; and (7) children receive adequate services to meet their physical and mental health needs.

Involving State Legislators in the Child and Family Services Reviews (PDF - 245 KB) National Conference of State Legislatures (2010) Discusses ideas for involving State legislatures and legislative staff in the CFSR process and offers examples of how States are promoting this collaboration.

Child and Family Services Reviews Round 3 Resources Child and Family Services Reviews (2016) Connects visitors with resources for states participating in the child and family services review process, including onsite review instruments and instructions, procedures manual, stakeholder interview guide, data indicators, and national standards.

Program Improvement Plan (PIP) The plan that States are required to submit to the Federal Government if found out of conformity on any of the seven outcomes or seven systemic factors subject to review in the Federal Child and Family Services Reviews.

The Federal Child and Family Services Reviews, which looked at child welfare in every State, found that engaging families in case planning and timely and quality caseworker visits were the two most important activities to impact child welfare outcomes — including permanency.

Reducing the Trauma of Investigation, Removal, and Out - of - Home Placement (PDF - 374 KB) Portland State University, Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services, & Oregon Department of Human Services Presents a collection of documents that explores the impact of trauma on children involved in child abuse and neglect cases and strategies for reducing trauma by supporting children and adolescents during investigation, removal, and out - of - home placement.

For fair hearing information, contact your local Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) Regional Service Area, link: http://dcfs.nv.gov/Programs/CWS/CWS-PhoneDirectory/.

Lessons Learned: PIP Development [Teleconference] National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement & Federal Child and Family Services Review Team (2008) Highlights approaches that have helped agencies develop and implement comprehensive PIPs that involve critical stakeholders and focus on key systemic factors for improving child and family outcomes.

I urge people to do the right thing and report any suspicions that they may have to any Child Welfare agencies in their community, such as the Children's Aid Society, Catholic Children's Aid Society, Jewish Child and Family Services or the Native Child and Family Services.

2: Building strengths and resilience in individuals and families, through work with the universal child and family services, schools, health services, recognising that suicide risk is associated with adversity in early childhood.

Change child and maternal health services to child and family services to understand the social and cultural contexts of families and locate children in them.

Changing paradigms in child and family services: Challenges for practice, policy and research.

It includes the main clinic which includes dental and our pharmacy, the Alukura women's health service which includes the Olds Nurse Family Partnership program, Ingkintja our male health section, Child and Family Services — which includes an 8 week intensive Abecedarian program for children who are developmentally behind, and our Social and Emotional Well Being Section which treats people with mental illnesses including addictions of all types.

Maintaining safety and keeping children free from abuse are among the many key desired outcomes of the Child and Family Services Reviews.

There was also a focus on improving performance in placing sibling groups together and, in fact, Contra Costa County has seen improvement in Child and Family Services Review Performance Indicator 4A, Siblings.

Adoption Practice Guidelines (PDF - 951 KB) Utah Division of Child and Family Services (2017) Gives child welfare agency practice guidelines for adoption services for children in Utah.

(Adapted from Child and Family Services Review Information Portal)

In 2001, the California State Assembly passed the Child Welfare System Improvement and Accountability Act, a State initiative modeled after the Federal Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR).

CWT conforms to the Child and Family Services Act and assists RECEs with keeping up to date with all policies and procedures related to the Early Learning and Care sector by providing various professionals learning opportunities.

Agency and Court Collaboration on the CFSRs and PIPs National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues (2002) Survey of 13 States to identify methods for increasing collaboration between child welfare agencies and family courts during the Child and Family Services Review process.

In 2001, the California State Assembly passed the Child Welfare System Improvement and Accountability Act, a State initiative modeled after the Federal Child and Family Services Review (CFSR).

on the intersection of parental substance use and child well - being, information on the effects of parental substance use on children, the role substance use treatment professionals may play in Federal Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs), and more.

Fostering Court Improvement Fostering Results, ABA Center on Children and the Law, National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues, & Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic (2008) Aims to link States so that they can open new, collaborative dialog with all stakeholders in their child welfare systems through the use of data and data analysis, including Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System data housed and maintained by the child and family services agency of each State.

Statewide assessment The first phase of the Federal Child and Family Services Review.

For instance, health care social workers should see more growth than those working in child and family services.

Collaborated with social service agencies such as the Domestic Violence Association, and Child and Family Services to address the specific needs of students assessed to be in abusive familial relationships

Tags for this Online Resume: Behavioral Health, Clinical Social Work, Alcoholism Treatment, Drug Treatment, Child and Family Services, Foster Care and Adoption, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Training

In this case, the requester sought access to ``... all records regarding two aboriginal children refusing chemotherapy at McMaster Children's Hospital and the resulting Ontario court family division case between Hamilton Health Sciences and Brant Child and Family Services including but not limited to records regarding the Nov. 14, 2014 decision and April 24, 2015 clarification.»

On December 11, 2014, Weagant J. of the Ontario Court of Justice (the «trial judge») found P.A.V. to be in need of protection due to neglect under s. 37 (2)(b) of the Child And Family Services Act, R.S.O. 1990 c. C. 11 (the «Act»).

Keywords: Publication Ban, Family Law, Crown Wardship, Child and Family Services Act, s 45, Childrens Aid Society, Standard of Review, Deference, Palpable and Overriding Error

She found the Child and Family Services Act did not allow for enforcement of extra-provincial child protection orders.

The Ministry subsequently applied under The Child and Family Services Act... for an order permanently committing T.J.E.S. to its care... [T] he learned trial judge found no basis to support the Ministry's warrantless apprehension of T.J.E.S.... The Ministry appeals that decision.

The NIL / TU, O Child and Family Services Society v. B.C.G.E.U. case asked the same question concerning a child welfare agency providing child welfare services designed to preserve Aboriginal cultural identity.

According to the Child and Family Services Act, a child is in need of protection if, as a result of an act or omission of a child's parent:

(Canadian Western Bank as cited in para 69 of NIL / TU, O Child and Family Services Society v. B.C.G.E.U.)

Under the Ontario Child and Family Services Act, «A child is in need of protection where... the child requires medical treatment to cure, prevent or alleviate physical harm or suffering and the child's parent or the person having charge of the child does not provide, or refuses or is unavailable or unable to consent to, the treatment.»

During her final year at law school Katelyn completed an intensive term at Osgoode Hall and worked with the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto.

Before she was pulled from Winnipeg's Red River in the summer of 2014, her body wrapped in a blanket that had been weighed down by rocks, Fontaine was supposed to be in the care of Manitoba's Child and Family Services.

She represents clients at all levels of court in Ontario and before the Child and Family Services Review Board.

Andrea is a member of the Social Justice Tribunal, as a Board Member of the Child and Family Services Review Board.

She has an extensive practice in child protection, representing the Ministry of Social Services and a Tribal Council child and family services agency in proceedings under The Child and Family Services Act.

In 2013 — 14, AANDC reported spending $ 1.7 billion for «social development» purposes including income assistance, and child and family services.

Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include judicial ethics; interpreters; delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators of lethality at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye - witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues at trials of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application of Gladue principles; mistrials and bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues; domestic violence issues; orders for examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.

Topics include commencement of proceedings in both criminal and provincial offences, introduction to search warrants, the effect and enforcement of recognizances of bail, Mental Health Act orders of examination, Child and Family Services Act warrants of apprehension, subpoenas, weapons disposition and prohibition hearings and an introduction to criminal set date court.

On appeal, the mother reiterated her argument that the CAS breached its duty to provide «provide guidance, counselling and other services to families for protecting children or for the prevention of circumstances requiring the protection of children» pursuant to s. 15 (3)(c) of the Child and Family Services Act.

The Caring Society and AFN alleged AANDC discriminates against 160,000 First Nations children living on reserve and in the Yukon, on the basis of race, by providing insufficient and inequitable funding for child and family services.

In March 2016, the federal government released an overview of funding for First Nations Child and Family Services (FNCFS) as outlined in the 2016 federal budget.

She represented CARAL in its intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in G v. Winnipeg Child and Family Services, which involved the medical incarceration of a pregnant aboriginal woman who was sniffing solvents and in Dobson v. Dobson, a New Brunswick case where a child was suing his mother for injuries he suffered as a foetus as a result of her negligence.

Bill 89 introduces historic amendments to the Child and Family Services Act and is -LSB-...]

The Child and Family Services Act, subject to subrule (6).