Florida Safety Decision Making Methodology

1. Florida Safety Decision Making Methodology Leadership Transformation Training for PASCO & PINELLAS COUNTY Sheriff’s Office

2. Workshop Introduction • Context for the Training • Background on the Family Functioning Assessment • Training related to Implementation of Florida Safety Decision Making Methodology • Fidelity of the Family Functioning Assessment • Philosophy of practice • Intervention purpose and framework • Conceptual and criteria basis for practice and decision making • Process, practice and outcomes

3. Participant Introductions Name Agency What’s your role with transformation ? What is the one-thing you are looking forward when your agency rolls out this year ? (From what you have heard)

4. Baseline Knowledge Assessment Not a Test 

5. Where is Florida now & where do we need to be? “Storming the Castle Theory” How TRANSFORMATION will get us there

6. Culture of Agency and Staff Perception Hotline and CPI Ongoing Case Management Engagement with Families Information Collection Safety Planning Case Planning Safety Intervention: Storming the Castle

7. Module 2 Florida Safety Decision Making Methodology: Conceptual Framework

8. Module 2 Learning Objectives Participants are able to: • Define the Florida Safety Decision Making Methodology. • Define indicators of success for the Florida Safety Decision Making Methodology • Define the Family Functioning Assessment through describing the intervention purpose and objectives of the Family Functioning Assessment.

9. Session 1 Florida Safety Decision Making Methodology: Safety Intervention Model

10. Session 2 Purpose and Conceptual Framework for Family Functioning Assessment

11. Family Functioning Assessment(FFA - Investigation)

12. Focus of the Family Functioning Assessment Focus • Center of attention of the assessment

13. FFA vs. Incident Focused

14. Module 3 Essential Skills (FSDMM) and Family Centered Practice

15. Module 3 Learning Objectives Participants will: • Review the core tenets of Florida’s Family Centered Practice Model and understand how the model has been updated to incorporate the Florida SDMM. • Review application of core tenets through case observation.

16. Family Centered Practice • Demonstrate respect and courtesy • Demonstrate genuineness and equity • Respond promptly • Continually seek to engage • Act and respond with the family as the primary source of information • Provide support and encouragement • Demonstrate professionalism • Enable and promote participation and involvement • Provide necessary information

17. Demonstration of Respect & Courtesy • Engagement with family • Demonstrate empathy & engagement by the agency

18. Demonstration of Genuiness & Equity • Engagement with family • Investment in family outcomes • Understanding to seek resolution

19. Responding Promptly • Attention & Engagement with the family • Family feels connected

20. Constantly Seeking to Engage • Without the family, practice cannot proceed. • Information & decision-making will be insufficient. • The family is our customer we should continually seek to engage the family.

21. Act & Respond with the family as the Primary source of Information • Families are the experts on their family.

22. Provide Support & Encouragement • Child welfare is intrusive • Support & encouragement reinforces empathy & understanding by the CPI

23. Demonstrate Professionalism • Explore who we conduct out business • How we present to families? • How we maintain our professional objectivity?

24. Enable and Promote Participation & Involvement • Families participation and involvement is critical. • Change will not happen without it.

25. Provide Necessary Information • Knowledge is power • Keeping families informed

26. Session 2 Essential Skills

27. 5 Essential Skills • Engagement • Teaming • Safety Assessment • Safety Planning and Identification of Family Needs • Safety Management

28. Conclusion of Module 3

29. Module 4 Pre-Commencement and Commencement:Assessment of Present Danger

30. Module 4 Learning Objectives Participants are able to • Define and discuss pre-commencement activities associated with responding to Hotline Intakes. • Discuss the significance of pre-commencement activities for responding to Hotline Intakes. • Discuss and evaluate supervisory and front line staff pre-commencement activities associated with responding to Hotline Intakes.

32. Session 1 Information Collection Protocol Definition Information Collection Protocol: Pre-Commencement Pre-Commencement Demonstration: Large Group Activity Pre-Commencement Demonstration: Small Group Activity

33. Information Collection

34. Information Collection Protocol • Agency policies, intervention standards, procedures, and agreement along with the state of art translated into a uniform and systematic approach that describes how an activity/process will be carried out.

35. Information Collection Protocol: Pre-Commencement Protocol is being incorporated into Florida Administration Code (FAC) 65c-28, 65c-29, 65c-30 Effective July 1, 2013

36. Pre-Commencement Demonstration What that looks like?

37. Session 2: Present Danger Assessment Child Safety Danger Threats and Definitions Present Danger Impending Danger Conceptual Framework for Present Danger Identifying Present Danger Initial Contact Confirming Present Danger: The Role of the Supervisor

38. Safe • Safe: A child can be considered safe when there is no threat of danger to a child within the family/household or when the caregiver protective capacities within the household can manage threats of danger. • Unsafe: A child is unsafe when there is a danger threat to a child within a family/household and the caregiver protective capacities within the household are insufficient to manage the threat of danger, thus requiring protective intervention (action).

39. Danger Threat: Present Danger • Present danger is an immediate, significant and clearly observable family condition occurring in the present tense, already endangering or threatening to endanger a child. It is important to understand that the primary criterion that qualifies present danger is what is happening that endangers a child is happening now; it is currently in process of actively placing a child in peril.

40. Danger Threat: Impending Danger • Impending danger is associated with a child living or being in a position of continual danger’ Danger may not exist at a particular moment or be an immediate concern, but a state of danger exists. Impending danger is not necessarily active in the sense that a child might be hurt immediately like is true of present danger. When a child lives in impending danger one can expect severe harm as a reasonable eventuality. • Impending danger refers to threats to a child’s safety that exist; are insidious; but are not immediate, obvious, or active at the onset of DCF intervention. • Impending danger refers to threats that eventually are identified and understood upon more fully evaluating and understanding individual and family conditions and functioning.

41. Danger Threat Guide Danger Threat: Assessment of Present Danger Reading and Debrief

42. Conceptual Framework for Present Danger • Present Danger? • If what is being stated is true, does it equate to Present Danger?

43. FFA Intervention Standards: Initial Contact • Diligence in Response • Assessment of Present Danger • Time to Respond • 4 Hours • 24 Hours

44. Identifying Present Danger at Initial Contact

45. Initial Contact Consultation: Identifying and Justifying Present Danger What is the status of information collection? Who has the CPI/Case Manager interviewed or contacted? Can the CPI/Case Manager clearly describe the conditions that they believe endanger the child? What is the condition of the child and how does the child’s condition fit with the definition of present danger? What is the condition of the caregivers and how does the caregiver condition fit the definition of present danger? Based on what the CPI/Case Manager is describing, does the danger seem currently active, vivid, and reasonable? Is the CPI/Case Manager describing a family circumstance and/or aspect of caregiver functioning that is currently and/or actively threatening child safety? Does the CPI/Case Manager feel compelled to take action immediately to assure the protection of the child? And if so, why? If the CPI/Case Manager were to take no action based on what is being considered during consultation, what can be anticipated to occur with respect to the concerning family conditions and potential effects on the child?

46. Session 3 Present Danger Plan

47. Present Danger Plan Definition An instantaneous (same day), short-term, sufficient strategy that provides a child responsible adult supervision and care to allow for the completion of the family functioning assessment. Purpose To suspend what is going on long enough to support continuing the family functioning assessment.

48. What Present Danger Plans Must Must Do: Immediate Must be in motion and confirmed before worker (CPI/Case Manager) leaves the home. Short-Term Must control danger threat from the present until sufficient information can be gathered and analyzed to determine the need for forming an ongoing safety plan.

49. Present Danger Plans Must Be Sufficient Sufficient Identification of present danger to a child; Confirmed to manage present danger: description of how the plan will work; Confirmation of person(s) responsible for protection; trustworthiness, reliability, commitment, availability, alliance to plan; Willing parents to cooperate with the plan; Evaluation of home if child is released or placed with other, or if family-made arrangement is opted; Estimated time frames of plan and oversight.

50. Conclusion Module 4