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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
1 st and 2 nd Quarter Reports: Achieved. All DFCS staff and FP/BP providers have received training on Family Team Conferencing
and Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings (MDT). Additional training will be offered to DFCS staff and FP/BP providers in January
2003, June 2003 and September 2003.
2 nd Quarter Federal Response: What can the State give us to show this has been achieved?
DOCUMENTATION: See attached PIP Items 7,9,12,18,21,23
3 rd Quarter Federal Response: Progress needs to be addressed.
4 th Quarter Report: Beginning the spring of 2004 additional training will be provided to county case manager and supervisor staff on
MDT and Family Conferencing.
4 th Quarter Federal Response: The State indicates that this step has been achieved. They have provided training. However, the goal
is to ensure that family group conferencing is done at the 30-day case plan and that parental involvement met. The State plans to
evaluate by conducting spot checks for compliance. We need more information. How does the State know that parental involvement
has increased and that family group conferencing is done at the 30-day case plan? Have they done reviews? If so, what are the results?
5 th Quarter Report: The State is requesting to delete this action step. Reason: Limited resources do not allow the State to conduct the
family group conferencing. The overall goal is being met. The State believes that deleting this action step will not adversely impact
the goal.
6 th Quarter Report: Request is to delete this as an action step. Although the state recognizes the value of the family team
conferencing process as an aid in the development of a comprehensive case plan, there are in place in the state other methods by which
this is achieved. The multi-disciplinary team meetings (at which agency and other professional staff involve family members in case
planning and decision making) is widely used by providers and agency staff at the culmination of the comprehensive assessment.
Family members also have an opportunity to provide input and participate in the planning process during the development of the
initial 30-day case plan.
6 th Quarter Federal Response: J5: State requests deletion of the action step 'due to limited resources' and also asserts that the 'overall
goal is being met.'
Q6 reporting disputes the above as evidenced in the most recent QCR data.
Safe Futures – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
November, 2004 Quarter 8 – Work Plan J Page 23