Iowa Department of Human Services

1. Iowa Department of Human Services A Brief Overview

3. Vision The Iowa Department of Human Services makes a positive difference in the lives of Iowans we serve through effective and efficient leadership, excellence, and teamwork.

4. Mission Safety Permanency

5. Mission Self-sufficiency Well-Being

6. Mission • Stewards of State resources • Customer focused • Partnerships • Federal funding

7. Four Guiding Principles: Customer Service

8. Four Guiding Principles:Excellence

9. Four Guiding Principles: Accountability

10. Four Guiding Principles:Teamwork

11. Core Functions: Economic Supports Economic Supports: FIP Empowerment Food Stamps Child Care Assistance Refugee Services

12. Core Functions: Health Care & Support Services

13. Core Functions: Resource Management

14. Core Functions: Child and Adult Protection Services to Strengthen and Support Families Foster Care Child Care Iowa Juvenile Home (Toledo) State Training School (Eldora)

15. CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES REVIEW

16. What is the CFSR? • Partnership between “The Feds” and State governments to review each state’s Child Welfare System • Entire Child Welfare System: • The DHS • Juvenile Court • Medical Services • Education • State & Community Partners

17. CFSR Outcomes • SAFETY • Protection from abuse • Safe in their own homes when possible • PERMANENCY • Permanency and stability for youth • Family relationships are preserved • FAMILY & CHILD WELL-BEING • Adequate services are provided to meet physical and mental health needs

18. CFSR Systemic Factors • Statewide Information System • Case Review System • Quality Assurance System • Training • Service Array • Agency Responsiveness to Community • Foster and Adoptive Parent Licensing, Recruitment and Retention

19. CFSR Process • Statewide Assessment • On-Site Review • Program Improvement Plan (PIP)

20. Program Improvement Plan (PIP) • State stakeholders develop plan showing what will be done to improve and setting performance goals • Submit plan to Regional Office for approval within 90 days of CFSR final report • State has 2 years to complete strategies, and 3 years to meet outcome performance goals

21. Iowa’s PIP - Key Strategies • Child Welfare Model of Practice • Statewide expansion of Community Partnerships for Protecting Children • DHS focus on youngest victims and high risk families; Community Care for lower risk families • Family assessment model and training • Family Team Meetings • Minority youth and family initiatives • Memorandum of Agreement with Education and Public Health • Strengthened focus on role of supervisor • Creation of Quality Assurance System

22. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

23. …OR NOT

24. Intake Process - Purpose CPS CINA Criteria for Assessment Constitutional Right to Privacy

25. Intake Policy • It is the purpose and policy of Iowa to provide the greatest possible protection to children who may have been abused or are at risk for abuse and those children in need of assistance. • Children in Iowa need protection from abuse. Child protection and strong families are the responsibility not only of the family itself, but also of the larger community, including formal and informal service networks. • Child safety comes first!

26. Sources of Reports The Department shall receive child abuse reports from mandatory, permissive, and anonymous reporters.

27. Intake Referral Options • Information. The person is ineligible for services through the Department. The reporter will be given information on community resources to contact. • Child Protective Assessment. Accepted criteria are met to initiate an assessment to examine whether abuse or neglect of a child has occurred. • CINA Assessment. The person appears to have a child in need of assistance and to meet basic eligibility factors. At this point the case is assigned for a CINA assessment.

28. Child Protective Assessment Child Abuse Criteria - “3 Cs” • Child – Under the age of 18 • Caretaker • Category of Abuse

29. CHILD IN NEED OF ASSISTANCEIowa Code Section 232.2(6)(a) – (q) • Abandoned or deserted • Physically abused or neglected • Harmful effects – • Mental Injury • Lack of Supervision • Sexual Abuse • Not provided medical treatment • Not provided mental health treatment • Not provided food, clothing or shelter & refuse help

30. CHILD IN NEED OF ASSISTANCEContinued • Committed a delinquent act due to pressure from adult in household • Sexual Activities for hire (including photographs) • Without a parent or guardian • Parent seeks removal for good cause • Child seeks removal for good cause

31. CHILD IN NEED OF ASSISTANCEContinued • Not provided substance abuse treatment • Parent not provide adequate care due to: • Mental capacity or condition • Imprisonment • Drug or alcohol abuse • Drug affected child • Manufacture meth in child’s presence • Safe Haven: Voluntary release of Newborn

32. Assessment Findings • Not Confirmed • Confirmed, not placed • Founded • Risk Level • Low • Medium • High **MUST BE DONE IN 20 BUSINESS DAYS**

35. CINA Assessment • Outcomes of the CINA Assessment • Information and/or Referral to Community Resources • Recommendation for court involvement through a Child in Need of Assistance petition (CINA) • Services are not provided until a court case is opened.

36. Juvenile Court System Two Types of Legal Proceedings: Civil and Criminal Juvenile Court falls under Civil

39. Types of Hearings • Removal • Adjudication • Disposition • Review/ Modification • Permanency • Termination of Parental Rights

40. Removal Hearings • Means of Removal • Ex-Parte (no other parties present) • Emergency (Police Officer, Doctor, Juvenile Court Officer) • Consent of Parent Hearing must be held within 10 days. (Some courtrooms are now doing them within 5 business days)

41. Adjudication Hearings • Hearing determines if the Court can intervene • Grounds for filing a Child In Need of Assistance (CINA) Petition The Court may: 1. Adjudicate based on CINA grounds 2. Dismiss petition 3. Suspend

42. Disposition Hearings • Determines what should be done for the child and what services to offer. • A plan is identified on how the Department will reunify the family. • Recommendations are made by the Department.

43. Dispositional Possibilities • Custodial Parents • Non-custodial parent • Relative or other suitable adult • Family Foster Care • Treatment family foster care • Community day-evening treatment • Foster group care • Psychiatric Medical Institute for Children • Iowa Juvenile Home at Toledo

44. KINSHIP CARE

45. Foster Care

46. RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT (PMIC)

47. Review Hearings At least every six months following the disposition, the court case is reviewed and the progress or lack of progress that has been made in the family is assessed. Modification Hearings These are held when the direction of the case needs to be changed, or the circumstances change. This hearing can be held at any time in the case following the Disposition. Review/Modification Hearings

48. At the time that a child has been out of the home for twelve months, and each twelve months after, a Permanency hearing must be held. At a Permanency hearing the judge may make one of three decisions. 1) The child returns home. 2) The case is forwarded to a Termination of Parental Rights hearing. 3) Or, the child remains in care. Permanency Hearings

49. Permanency Options • Transfer custody to other parent • Guardianship • Custodianship • Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement

50. Adoption and Safe Families Act(ASFA) • Court has Option to Waive “Reasonable Efforts” Requirement if Parent: • Has already lost parental rights to that child’s sibling • Has committed specific types of felonies, including murder or voluntary manslaughter of the child’s sibling. • Has subjected the child to aggravated circumstances such as abandonment, torture, chronic abuse, and sexual abuse.