Los Angeles County Self-Assessment Report
Los Angeles County Self-Assessment Report
Los Angeles County Self-Assessment Report
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Local schools, community colleges, and universities have also assisted DCFS in its<br />
recruitment, development, and support efforts of resource families in a variety of ways.<br />
Most are displaying and distributing recruitment brochures at their campuses; MSW<br />
graduate student interns are actively participating in various levels of the development<br />
and planning of RDS events (i.e. “Celebrating and Encouraging Sibling Connections”,<br />
Pasadena office), and assisting with the development and distribution of a Resource<br />
Family Exit Survey for resource families who have chosen to no longer foster. Some of<br />
the anchor sites report discussion on how to best utilize former foster youth in RDS<br />
issues.<br />
Most anchor sites have initiated steps to clean and purify their database on the actual<br />
number of active resource families in their communities. Resource families have been<br />
surveyed as to their current ability to accept placements, which has allowed for the<br />
updating of the number of actual available placement beds. Further, some of the anchor<br />
sites have created an emergency placement database to help make better placement<br />
matches.<br />
Structured Decision Making (SDM):<br />
Structured Decision Making provides social workers with simple, objective, and reliable<br />
tools with which to make the best possible decisions for individual cases and provides<br />
managers with information for improved planning and resource allocation. The<br />
implementation of SDM tools ensures that safety, risk, and needs are assessed for each<br />
child for whom child welfare services are to be provided, including gathering and<br />
evaluating information relevant to the case situation and appraising case services<br />
needs. Generally, the SDM utilization rates have been increasing since 2004:<br />
SDM Hotline <strong>Assessment</strong> Tool (this<br />
tool was implemented on 07/01/05)<br />
Safety <strong>Assessment</strong> 85.5%<br />
Percent of SDM Tool Completion<br />
2004 2005 2006 2007<br />
n/a 97.8%<br />
n = 55,614<br />
Risk <strong>Assessment</strong> 77.1%<br />
n = 29,674<br />
n =26,564<br />
90.3%<br />
n=58,831<br />
81.4%<br />
n = 26,824<br />
99.6%<br />
n = 73,763<br />
90.8%<br />
n = 58,592<br />
84.6%<br />
n = 23,251<br />
98.5%<br />
n = 68,213<br />
92.8%<br />
n = 64,271<br />
83.5%<br />
n = 23,396<br />
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