Assessor Tier I Tools:

Supervisor Coaching Tool for Assessor Skill Building Activities

Tier I Skill Building Activities:

• Birth Parent Services
• Placement Strategies
• Post-Finalization
• Adoption Assistance
• Family & Child Assessment
• Pre-Finalization Adoption Services

Services for Birth Parents

• Ohio Laws - Open Records
• Rights of Birth Parents
• Supporting Birth Parents
• Recognizing Denial in Birth Parents
• Strategies to Involve the Birth Father
• Facilitating the Transition Visit

Placement Strategies

• Guide to Child's Lifebook
• Minimize Crisis for Adoptive Families
• Minimize Crisis for Child
• Minimize Crisis for Foster Families
• Interstate Compact on Placement of Children

Post-Finalization

• Information on Disruption
• Intergenerational Issues in Adoption
• Post-Final Adoption Bibliography
• Post Adoption Services

Adoption Assistance

• International Adoption Assistance
• Non-Recurring Adoption Expenses
• Ohio Special Needs Definition - Assistance
• Overview of Subsidy Programs - Assistance
• Post Adoption Special Services Subsidy
• State Adoption Maintenance Subsidy
• Subsidies Checklist - Assistance
• Title IV-E Adoption Assistance
• Title IV-E Special Needs Definition
• Adoption Subsidies
• http://www.nacac.org/adoptionsubsidy/stateprofiles/ohio.html
• Income Guidelines for Adoption Assistance

Family & Child Assessment

• Blank Prediction Path
• ICWA
• Ohio's ICWA Guidelines
• Ohio Policy Statement - ICWA
• Sample Prediction Path
• Summary of MEPA
• A Guide to MEPA
• Recruitment & Retention of Resource Families
• Assessment Categories
• Family Interview Guide (This is a "pocket tool" of synthesized info for use in the field. For a thorough discussion of child welfare issues, including assessment of prospective foster and adoptive families, visit www.childwelfarefieldguide.com.)
  

Pre-Finalization Adoption Services

• Helping Parents Encourage Attachment
• The Losses of Childhood
• Strategies to Help Grieving Children
• Most Common Reasons for Adoption Disruption
• Services to Families in Post Placement
• Using Community Resources
• When a Family Is in Crisis
• Disruption Steps
• Disruption Prevention Link: http://www.nacac.org/postadoptionarticles/planpreparesupport.html
• Resource Family Retention: An Overview http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/downloads/retention-overview.pdf

 

Assessor Tier II Tools:

Supervisor Coaching Tool for Assessor Skill Building Activities

Tier II Skill Building Activities:

• Achieving Permanency
• Cultural Issues in Permanency Planning
• Gathering & Documenting Background Information
• Openness in Adoption

Achieving Permanency

• Workstyles Profile

Cultural Issues in Permanency Planning

• Cultural Implications of Assessment Categories
• Cultural Issues in Development
• Cultural Resources Guide
• ICWA
• MEPA Can and Cannot
• A Guide to MEPA
• MEPA Standards
• Additional MEPA Resources & Links
• NACAC Pubs on Transracial Adoptive Parenting
• Process to Consider RCNO Flowchart

Gathering & Documenting Background Information

• Hostile Birth Parents
• Positive Adoption Language
• Sources of Gathering & Documenting Info
• Train the Team Handout
• What Info Is Needed?
• Wrongful Adoption

Openness in Adoption

• Child's Perspective
• Hospital Dos and Don'ts
• Openness Toolbox
• Parent's Perspective

ODJFS 1680 Form

• Verification of Assessor Qualifications

 

Caseworker Core Tools:

Field Guide to Child Welfare (Rycus & Hughes). The Field Guide covers all of the Caseworker Core competencies and many of the specialized and related competencies for caseworkers. It is available in text format through the Child Welfare League of America or can be accessed online. The Field Guide is comprised of the following four volumes:

• Volume I: Foundations of Child Protective Services
• Volume II: Case Planning and Family-Centered Casework
• Volume III: Child Development and Child Welfare
• Volume IV: Placement and Permanence

Caseworker Core Checklist

Module I: Family-Centered Approach to CPS:

• Pre-Training Resource: Casework Values & Principles Put into Practice
• Post Training Resource: Assessing Factors Associated with Maltreatment

Module III: Legal Aspects of Family-Centered CPS

• Pre-Training Resource: Legal Aspects of CPS

Module VI: Case Planning and Family-Centered Child Protective Services

• Pre-training Resource: Case Planning in Child Protective Services

Module VII: Child Development--Implications for Family-Centered CPS

• Pre-Training Resource: Child Development
• Post Training Resource: Using Tools to Assess Development

Supervisor/Manager Core Tools:

Supervisor/Manager Core Checklist

Module I: Casework Supervision

• Pre-Training Resource: Child Welfare Values
• Pre-Training Assignment: Casework Supervision

Module II: Leadership in the Child Welfare System

• Pre-Training Resource: Effective Leadership
• Pre-Training Resource: You Are Part of a System
• Pre-Training Resource: Taking the Balcony View
• Pre-Training Worksheet: Leadership in the Child Welfare System
• Post Training Worksheet: Transactional/Transformational Leadership

Module III: Improving Staff Performance

• Pre-Training Worksheet: Staff Strengths & Barriers to Performance

Module IV: Leading the Team

• Pre-Training Worksheet: Characteristics of an Effective Team

Module VI: Professional Development of Staff

• Pre-Training Worksheet: Module Skill Sets and Competencies