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Work Plan Detail H -- Item 13, Visiting with Parents and Siblings in Foster Care
H5 ACTION STEPS: Goal #2
Step 4: Caseworkers are trained to include documentation of visits in case plan.
Evaluation : Visits between parents and children and location of visits will be documented in at least 90% of
cases by June 2004.
START
DATE
COMPLETION
DATE
RESPONSIBLE
PERSON(S)
June 2002 June 2004 Consultation and Support, Nancy Bruce and
Education and Research
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
1 st Quarter Report: See Step 1 above
2 nd Quarter Report: No report due this quarter.
MEASURABLE
BENCHMARKS
Step 4: Caseworkers trained to document child and parent
visitations.
3 rd Quarter Report: Partially Achieved. All caseworkers were trained to document parent and child visitation efforts in the CPRS.
However, as policy changes occur and/or new staff are hired, the training will have to be repeated.
Please see attached CPRS Screen printout, Permanency 2, Item 13, which confirms that parent child visitation is properly documented
in the Case Plan. Also, see attachments, CPRS v2, Trained by County & Region -- Detail and CPRS v2, Trained by Training date --
Detail, which show that staff from all 159 Georgia counties have been trained to include parent and child visitation arrangements in
the case plan.
4 th Quarter Report: ACHIEVED. This item is considered achieved, because the goal/measurable benchmark has been met. Please
see the documentation referenced above under 3 rd Quarter Report, in the 2 nd paragraph. .The CPRS training will be repeated as policy
changes occur, or new staff are hired.
4 th Quarter Federal Response: It appears the State has not completed the evaluation aspect of this action step. Were 100% of the
staff trained? How many staff were trained?
5 th Quarter Report: Yes, all staff was trained. Additionally, as new staff is hired, this component is also included in their training
curriculum.
Safe Futures – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
November, 2004 Quarter 8 – Work Plan H Page 1