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DOCUMENTATION:
Please see attachment CPRS Screen printout, Permanency 2, Item 12, which confirms efforts to place siblings together are properly
documented in case files. Also, see attachments, CPRS v2, Trained by County & Region -- Detail and PRS v2, Trained by Training
Date -- Detail, which show that staff from all 159 Georgia counties have been trained to include efforts to place siblings together in the
case plan.
5th Quarter Report: Partially Achieved. The state has made the decision to discontinue using the Supervisory Review Guide and
replaces it with the Child Placement Services E & R Social Services Review Guide, developed by the Evaluation and Reporting (E &
R) office. This instrument is already developed and available to the staff. Also, it incorporates PIP requirements for Georgia. It
encompasses the same information contained in the previous Supervisory Review Guide, and includes a reference to efforts to place
siblings together (under Item 28). The E & R Review Guide is already available to staff and requires no additional training. According
to the first round of QCRs efforts to place siblings together was documented in 10 of the 13 applicable cases. See the attached
Qualitative Review Report for October 2003 -- December2003.
6 th Quarter Report: The most recent Qualitative Case Review for January 2004 – March 2004 indicates an increase in the number of
siblings placed together. Of 37 cases examined, 23 were relevant to the placement of siblings together. Documentation of efforts to
place siblings together was indicated in 21 cases (91.30%).
7 th Quarter Report: ACHIEVED. This item was achieved with the previous report. Our failure to indicate it was an oversight.
Supervisors have been trained to include efforts to place siblings together in their reviews. Training will continue to be extended to
supervisors as needed or when updates/improvements to the system are made.
7 th Quarter DOCUMENTATION: A cumulative Qualitative Case Review for the 10 month period 10/03 – 06/04 shows that in 45
relevant cases, 38 cases (84.44%) were rated as a “strength”. This item was rated “needs improvement” in seven cases (15.56%).
Forty cases involved siblings where, if appropriate, the agency should have made attempts to keep siblings together. The report
indicates that the agency made diligent attempts to keep siblings together in 34 of the 40 cases (85.00%).
8 th Quarter Report: Achieved. As reported in the 6 th quarter report, Georgia’s Quality Case Review (QCR) indicates that efforts to
place siblings together were documented in 91.30% of the cases reviewed. The federal final CFSR report indicates that 72.2% of
cases document efforts to place siblings together. The QCR for 10/2003 – 09/2004 implies that in 92.6% of the applicable cases,
diligent efforts were made to place siblings together.
8 th Quarter DOCUMENTATION: Georgia Qualitative Case Report, October 2003 – September 2004
Safe Future – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
November, 2004 Quarter 8 - Work Plan G Page 2