I. Underlying Values and Principles
of Collaborative Relationships
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1.
Our state has included the judicial officers
and attorneys from the dependency court as partners in
the development of new approaches to serving substance-abusing
parents in the child welfare system.
2.
Our state AOD and CWS agencies and dependency
courts have used a formal values assessment process to
determine how much consensus or disagreement we have about
issues related to AOD use, parenting, and child safety.
3.
Our state AOD and CWS agencies and dependency
courts have negotiated shared principles or goal statements
that reflect a consensus on issues related to families
with AOD-related problems in child welfare and the dependency
court.
4.
Our state has prioritized parents in the
CWS system for receipt of AOD treatment services.
5.
In our state, CWS staff and the courts view
alcohol abuse as being as important as other drugs as
a contributing factor in child abuse and/or neglect.
6.
Our state has discussed and developed responses
to the conflicting time frames associated with CWS, TANF,
AOD treatment and child development.
II. Daily Practice - Screening and
Assessment
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1.
Our state has developed a joint AOD-CWS-Dependency
Court policy on its approach to standardized screening
and assessment of substance abuse issues among families
in child welfare.
2.
Our state has successfully out-stationed
AOD workers at CPS offices and/or the dependency court
to help with screening and assessment of clients.
3.
Our state has multi-disciplinary service
teams that include both AOD and CWS workers.
4.
Our state has developed coordinated AOD treatment
and CPS case plans.
5.
Our state supplements child abuse/neglect
risk assessment with an in-depth assessment of AOD issues
and their impact on each of the family members.
6.
Our state's child welfare intake process
is able to identify prior AOD treatment episodes based
on previously negotiated information sharing protocols.
7.
Our state's AOD intake process identifies
parents who are involved in the CWS system based on previously
negotiated information sharing protocols.
8.
Our state's AOD providers have sufficient
information about the child welfare case to conduct quality
assessments among families referred by child welfare to
treatment.
9.
Our state routinely documents AOD factors
from its screening and assessment process in the information
system.
10.
When our AOD treatment providers assess
clients, they routinely include questions about children
in the family, their living arrangements, and child safety
issues.
11.
Our state routinely monitors the implementation
and the quality of its screening and assessment protocols.
III. Daily Practice - Client Engagement
and Retention in Care
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1.
Our state's CWS staff
have the skills and knowledge to talk with their clients
about their AOD use and related problems.
2.
Our state's AOD staff
have the skills and knowledge to talk with their clients
about child safety and CWS involvement.
3.
Our state's dependency
court judges have the skills and knowledge they need to
talk with their clients about child welfare and substance
abuse issues.
4.
Our state's dependency
court attorneys have the skills and knowledge they need
to talk with their clients about child welfare and substance
abuse issues.
5.
Our systems have assessed
common drop-out points where clients in care leave the
system prior to completing treatment.
6.
Our systems have implemented
integrated case plans that include the substance abuse
recovery plan integrated or linked with the child welfare
case plan.
7.
Our dependency court
system has adequate access to treatment monitoring information
to determine how parents are progressing through treatment
in a timely way.
8.
Our state's dependency
court system has realistic expectations for CWS parents
with AOD problems (e.g., approach to relapse and drug
testing issues).
9.
Our state's CWS staff
provides outreach to clients who do not keep their initial
AOD appointment or drop out of treatment.
10.
Our dependency court
staff follows up with the substance abuse treatment agency
that the parent is ordered to attend if a parent fails
to keep a court date.
11.
Our state AOD staff
track the status of their clients' progress in the CWS
system.
12.
Our state has developed
and trained our staff in approaches with clients that
improve rates of retention in treatment once they enter
it.
13.
In our state, CWS
and AOD agencies have agreed on the level of information
about clients' progress in treatment that will be communicated
from treatment agencies to CWS workers and the courts.
14.
In our state, there
is an adequate system for monitoring jointly-agreed upon
outcomes of child welfare, substance abuse and dependency
court programs and interventions.
15.
In our state, client
relapse typically leads to a collaborative intervention
to re-engage the client in treatment and to re-assess
child safety.
16.
In our state, drug
testing is used effectively and in conjunction with a
treatment program to monitor clients' compliance with
treatment plans.
17.
Rate your state's AOD treatment on the following areas:
Poor
Fair
Excellent
Gender specific
Culturally relevant
Geographically accessible
Family focused
Age-specific responses to children's needs
Adequacy of adolescent treatment
18.
Rate your state's child welfare services in the following
areas:
Poor
Fair
Excellent
Gender specific
Culturally relevant
Geographically accessible
Family focused
Age-specific responses to children's needs
Adequacy of adolescent treatment
IV. Daily Practice - Services to Children
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1.
Our state has implemented substance abuse
prevention and early intervention services for most children
in the CWS system.
2.
Our state targets children of substance
abusers in the child welfare system for specialized substance
abuse prevention programming.
3.
Our state ensures that all children in the
child welfare system have a comprehensive mental health
assessment.
4.
Our state ensures that all children in CWS
are screened for:
a) Neurological effects of prenatal substance
exposure
b) Developmental delays associated with
parental substance abuse
c) Emotional/mental health problems associated
with parental substance abuse
d) Substance use disorders
5.
Our state’s Independent Living Program
includes significant content on the impact of AOD use.
6.
Our state has developed a range of programs
for children of substance-abusing parents that are targeted
on the special developmental needs of these children.
7.
Our state is familiar with national models
of prevention and intervention for AOD-affected children.
V. Joint Accountability and Shared
Outcomes
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1.
Our state’s AOD agency has identified
system outcomes and has communicated them to CWS and the
dependency court.
2.
Our state’s CWS agency has identified
system outcomes and has communicated them to the AOD agency
and the dependency court.
3.
Our state’s dependency court has
identified system outcomes and has communicated them to
the AOD and CWS agencies.
4.
Our state AOD and CWS agencies and the
courts have developed shared outcomes for CWS-AOD involved
families and have agreed on how to use this information
to inform policy leaders.
5.
Our state has developed outcome criteria
in their contracts with community-based providers (who
serve CWS-AOD clients) to measure their effectiveness
in achieving shared outcomes.
6.
Our state has shifted funding from providers
who are less effective in serving clients in the CWS-AOD
systems to those that are more effective.
7.
In our state, CWS-AOD involved parents
are referred to parenting programs that have demonstrated
positive results with this population.
8.
Our state CWS agency shares accountability
with their AOD counterpart for successful treatment outcomes
for their mutual clients.
9.
Our state AOD agency shares accountability
for positive child safety outcomes for clients who have
enrolled in treatment programs.
10.
In our state, drug testing is not used
in the court system as the most important indicator
of clients’ compliance with substance abuse treatment
and their recovery.
VI. Information Sharing and Data
Systems
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1. Our state has assessed
its data system to identify gaps in monitoring clients involved
in both CWS and AOD systems.
2. Our state’s data
system can retrieve the percentages of families that receive
services in both the AOD and CWS agencies.
3. Our state has identified
the confidentiality provisions that affect CWS-AOD and dependency
court connections and has devised means of sharing information
while observing these regulations.
4. Our state has developed
formal working agreements with the courts that include how
child welfare and treatment agencies will share information
about clients in treatment with the court system.
5. Our state consistently
documents AOD factors related to the case in our management
information system.
6. Our state’s AOD services
have supplemented the alcohol/drug data system to generate
data on their clients’ children and their CPS involvement.
7. Our state has developed
the capacity to automate data about the characteristics
and service outcomes of the clients who are in both the
CWS and AOD caseloads.
8. Our state is using data
that can track CWS/AOD clients across information systems
to monitor system outcomes.
VII. Training and Staff Development
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Agree Agree Not
Sure/Don't Know
1. Our state CWS ensures
that all managers, supervisors and workers receive training
on working with AOD-affected families.
2. Our state AOD agency ensures
that their staff/providers receive training on working with
families in the CWS system.
3. Our state has trained
court staff in the principles of effective drug treatment
and gender-specific services for mothers.
4. Our state has trained
attorneys who practice in the dependency court regarding
effective advocacy and basic education regarding substance
abuse and addiction.
5. Our state has developed
joint training programs for AOD, CWS and court staff and
providers to learn effective methods of working together.
6. Our state has a multi-year
staff development plan that includes periodic updates to
the training and orientation received by the staff of both
CWS and AOD agencies on working together.
7. Our state has training
programs that include cultural issues to improve staff’s
cultural relevance and competency in working with diverse
AOD-CWS client groups.
8. Our state has revised
the state university and social work pre-service educational
programs so that future staff are prepared to work across
systems on substance abuse and child welfare issues.
9. Foster parents, guardians,
kinship placement providers and group home providers are
sufficiently trained to work on issues related to substance
abusing families.
