Protective & Juvenile Services

This policy guides the work in Child Protective Services. Some of those chapters also guide the work in Juvenile Services.

Chapter 1 Foundations of Practice
1.1 Vision
1.2 Confidentiality
1.3 Sharing Confidential Information Within DFS (currently under review)

Chapter 2 Standards
2.1 Case File Standardization
2.2 Case Record
2.3 Case Narrative
2.4 WYCAPS Critical Data Entry
2.5 Methamphetamine
2.5.1 Substance Abuse Testing
2.6 Quality Assurance
2.7 Child Protective Services Certification
2.8 Child Protective Services Caseworker Competencies
2.9 Juvenile Services Certification (currently under review)
2.10 Juvenile Services Caseworker Competencies (currently under review)
2.11 Independent & Transitional Living

2.12 NYTD- National Youth in Transition Database

Chapter 3 Child Protective Services Case Management
3.0 Flow Chart
3.1 CPS Intake
3.2 Safety Assessment
3.3 Risk Assessment
3.4 CPS Prevention
3.5 Assessment Track
3.6 Investigation Track
3.7 Medication Care
3.8 Predisposition Report for Abuse/Neglect
3.9 Consent for Release of Information
3.10 Family Assessment Tool
3.11 MAYSI II/Mental Health Screening
3.12 Family Partnership Plan

3.13 Family Service Plan
3.14 Services
3.15 Evaluation/Provisions of Services
3.16 Face-toFace Contact

3.17 Risk Re-assessment
3.18 Reports Withholding Medically-indicated Treatment
3.19 Child Major Injury and Fatality Review
3.20 Central Registry - Amendment, Expungement, or Removal
3.20.1 Central Registry Background Checks

3.22 Fair Hearing (currently under review)
3.23 Special Investigation
3.24 Case Closure

Chapter 4 Juvenile Probation Case Management
4.0 Flow Chart
4.1 Probation Intake
4.2 Consent for Release of Information
4.3 PACT Screening Instrument
4.3.1 PACT Assessment Criminal History
4.4 PACT Quality
4.6 Pre-dispositional Report
4.7 Family Partnership
4.8 Youth Empowered Success Case Plan
4.9 Services
4.9.1 Transportation
4.10 Face-to Face Contact

4.11 Probation Services
4.12 ISP
4.13 Evaluation
4.14 ICJ

4.15 Central Registry (see policies 3.6, 3.20 and 3.20.1)
4.16 Special Investigations
4.17 Case Closures

Chapter 5 Placement/Permanency
5.0 Flow Chart
5.1 Authority for Placement
5.2 Placement
5.2.1 Placement Process and Level of Care
5.2.2 Emergency Placement in Non-certified Home
5.2.3 Placement with Non-custodial Parent
5.2.4 Relative and Kinship Placement
5.2.6 Preserving Connections

5.2.7 Parent Involvement with Children in Placement
5.2.11 Multi-Ethnic Placement (MEPA)
5.2.12 Child/Youth Portfolio
5.3 ICWA
5.4 Safe Haven
5.5 Shelter Care/Initial/Detention Hearing Report
5.6 Diligent Serach for Absent Parents
5.7 Diligent Search for Relatives/Kinship Care
5.8 Background Check
5.9 Social Summary (currently under review)
5.10 Home Studies (currently under review)
5.12 Family Foster Care
5.12.1 DFS Responsibilities to Care Providers
5.12.2 Personal Characteristics, Foster Parent Competencies
5.12.3 Application for Foster Care
5.12.4 Foster Home Certification, Revocation
5.12.5 Foster Parent Responsibilities
5.12.6 Foster Parent Training
5.12.7 Services for Foster Parents
5.12.8 Problem Solving Procedures
5.12.9 Foster Parent Records
5.13 Specialized Foster Care
5.14 Visitation Plan
5.15 Expediting Permanency
5.16 Quarterly Progress Report
5.17 Communicable Diseases
5.18 ICPC and ICAMA
5.19 Termination of Parental Rights
5.20 Adoption Policy
5.20.1 Adoption Archiving
5.20.2 Adoption Assistance/Subsidy Program
5.20.3 Negotiating Adoption Assistance Agreements
5.21 Legal Guardianship
5.21.1 Establishing Legal Guardianship
5.21.2 Guardianship Assistance/Subsidy Program
5.22 Independent Living Placement

Chapter 6 Funding
6.1 Emergency Assistance
6.2 Chld Support for Child in Out-of-Home Care
6.3 Financing Out-of-Home Care
6.4 Entry of Birthdates in WYCAPS
6.5 Foster Care Medical, Title IV-E Payments

6.6 Psychiatric Care - This policy is currently under revisioin.  Link will be restored shortly.