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8 th Quarter Report: Partially Achieved: As a result of this action step, the State’s Case Plan Reporting System underwent major
revisions to capture information from the Child and Family Comprehensive Assessment (First Placement Best Placement). The
ultimate goal was to produce a county-by-county report of placement needed and available and the corresponding permanency plans.
These reports would show service gaps and also add an additional evaluation of the FPBP assessment.
First Placement Best Placement upgrades to CPRS were completed in December 2003; however a pilot was not initiated until June
2004. Fourteen Troop and DeKalb County FPBP providers are participating in the pilot. Thus far only logistical concerns have been
identified: for example, (1) the FPBP provider was unable to locate a child in the CPRS system; because the case manager had not yet
entered the 30 day case plan (this is not to imply the case manager was not entering the case plan timely, but rather a is matter of
synchronization for the provider and case manager); and (2) consideration of reducing access of the FPBP provider to fewer fields
(fields which were thought to be pertinent to the assessment, but are not being utilized by the providers.) Thus far, approximately 20
FPBP assessments have been entered into CPRS. Thus, the original termination date of the pilot, August 30, 2004, has been extended.
Therefore, county-by-county reports have not been produced. Even though this action step will not be fully completed by the end of
the PIP reporting period, the State will continue its efforts to accomplish this goal.
8 th Quarter DOCUMENTATION: CPRS First Placement Best Placement Application Summary including provider user screens
BARRIERS TO ACHIEVEMENT:
I9 ACTION STEPS:
Complete a monthly county-by-county report as it relates to the First Placement/ Best Placement Wrap Around
Services used for each child in foster care.
START
DATE
June 2002
COMPLETION
DATE
October 2003 Per
Renegotiation,
completion date is
July 2004.
RESPONSIBLE
MEASURABLE
PERSON(S)
BENCHMARKS
DFCS through contractors Complete a report as to the findings from December 2001 -
- March 2002.
5th Quarter Report: Per Annual Evaluation /
Renegotiation Report Benchmark to read: Complete a
report as to the findings.
Safe Futures – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
November, 2004 Quarter 8 - Work Plan I Page 12