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PRACTICE MODEL

Milestone 1. PRACTICE MODEL. Curricular Competencies. Awareness of the importance organize assessment information into family individual levels Understand how to organize assessment information into family and individual level objectives Knows the four critical skills to get to consensus

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PRACTICE MODEL

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  1. Milestone 1 PRACTICE MODEL

  2. Curricular Competencies • Awareness of the importance organize assessment information into family individual levels • Understand how to organize assessment information into family and individual level objectives • Knows the four critical skills to get to consensus • Ability to introduce yourself and explain the process • Ability to write a consensus summary

  3. Milestone 1 : Building a Consensus • Family engagement • Assessment-child safety and family • What has happened in the past? • What do we need to create change? Organization Of Practice • Milestone 2 : Getting Organized on Objectives • Moving from Consensus to FLO & ILO • Building the Family and Community Team for Change • Co-Developing a “Case Plan” Milestone 3 : Specific ACTION Plans • Specific Plans of Action for Families and Youth • Documenting behavioral change • Using the Team to help Milestone 4: Documenting and Celebrating • Documenting Progress and Change • Celebrating Small Steps of Success • Adjusting plans for progress

  4. 1 Milestone Partnership: It Changes the Meaning of Assessment Interviewing

  5. PARTNERSHIP

  6. Engagement • When does the engagement process begin? • Who is responsible for engagement?

  7. Engagement • What does it feel/look like when engagement is going well with a family? • How do you know when engagement is NOT going well? What specific behaviors do you see?

  8. Engagement Can engagement stall or change along the way? Think of what good engagement between staff and families would look like. What would you notice about their interactions with families?

  9. Let’s Get Personal • Think of a family or individual that you envision you may struggle to engage with • What are some of the barriers to developing this relationship?

  10. Barriers 1. Family is defensive 2. Family doesn’t feel confident or competent 3. Family doesn’t trust system 4. Family doesn’t tolerate long-term stresses 5. Family gets discouraged with set-back So Assessment has to be Different!

  11. Remedies 1. Family needs their intent acknowledged 2. Family needs existing skills noticed/amplified 3. Family needs to hear that lack of trust is OK 4. Family needs to feel immediate hope for change 5. Family needs to know set-backs will occur

  12. Culture’s Impact on Engaging Families • Extended kinship systems • Spiritual practices/beliefs • Traditional Health Practices • Confidentiality practices • Historical oppression and mistrust • View of professionals • Recent dislocation or trauma • Gender and authority roles • Legal status

  13. Biases

  14. Biases • Who did you choose? • How come? • Did this bring out any surprise realizations? • What was your internal dialogue throughout the decision making process? • How can you relate this back to your casework?

  15. Self Awareness

  16. How do we Engage and Assess? • Begin by defining problems as difficult situations in everyday life. • Track the details of those situations at both the family and individual level • Focus attention on understanding exceptions to the problem as well as the problem situation itself.

  17. ? What are Everyday Life Situations

  18. Stages of Family Life

  19. My First Case!! Preparing before initial parent/caregiver contact • Review FamLink history, criminal history • Think developmentally and prepare for engagement • Discuss with supervisor and/or colleagues • Conceptualize pre-conceived notions about us

  20. Initial Contact • Review Intake scenario • Break into small groups: - Who is in the family? - What are the developmental stages? - Identify common everyday life challenges

  21. Family Plan How do we Organize Assessment? What developmental stage are they in? What everyday situations does the family struggle when it comes to caring for their children? How does that situation actually happen when it works, and when it doesn’t. 1 IndividualPlan • What personal issue(s) does one or more parent have that makes caring for the children difficult? • What is their Pattern of unwanted behavior? • What skills do they have about managing their personal behavior issue? 2

  22. why both?

  23. What kind of Family Plans ? Set Rules ForCurfew Supervise the Kids Keep TheHouse Clean A Home Safe from Violence Get Medical Care For Disciplining Kids

  24. What kind of Individual Plans ? Overcome Discouragement Manage their Drinking Manage their Sexual Behavior Problems Manage their Temper Stop Using Drugs Keep Mentally Healthy

  25. Practice with Family vs. Individual Issues Use the Challenges in Living Exercise Handout

  26. Assessment Interview Let’s Sort this out… Consensus Summary • Interviewing toward Consensus Summary • Normalizing challenges • Tracking family life • Search for Exceptions • Separate Intentions vs. Actions Safety & Risk

  27. Normalizing Everyday Life Challenges

  28. Tracking the Family Interaction

  29. Assessment Interviewing Practice Agency received a call from Emily Enns, the school social worker at Bjorn Elementary School, regarding Anna, age 9 and in the 3rd grade. Anna has a bruise on her left cheek and bruises on her left arm. The bruises are dark purple in color. The bruise on her left cheek is oblong, near her eye and about an inch in length. The three bruises on her left upper arm are oblong and seem to wrap around her arm. • Develop a “story” in your group about what could conceivably fit the summary description above, ie what might have happened before, during, and after the incident /situation? Be as detailed as you need to. • Include hypothetical thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of the family members, ie what where they thinking, and how do they feel now? • Come up with 2 statements and/or questions to begin the engagement process.

  30. Assessment Interviewing Practice • Based on your group’s story about the Case: • What sort of better plan does the family need? i.e.. A • i.e.. Family level objective (FLO) • A better plan to….. • What sort of better plan do the caretaker(s) need? • i.e.. An individual level objective (ILO) • A better plan to……

  31. Searching for Exceptions

  32. Separate Intentions from Actions

  33. Subject Interview/Getting in the Door Introduce yourself Explain role Reason for being there Attempt partnership Overcome resistance/ uncomfortable situations/think developmentally Begin to track sequence of events

  34. Let’s Practice

  35. Uncomfortable Situations

  36. 1 Milestone Consensus Summary: Let’s Practice Pulling the Consensus Together Use the Consensus Summary Handout to Practice

  37. Read Michael Scenario and Identify: • Who is in the family? • What are the developmental stages? • Identify common everyday life challenges • Identify individual behaviors

  38. Time to gather the rest of the story

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