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C7: Has the Health Check Schedule been implemented in CPRS? Is the State on track to complete this step by 7/04?
7 th Quarter Report: The Health Check is complete.
8 th Quarter Report: Achieved. As reported in the 7 th quarter the Health Check/Status is completed. The First Placement Best
Placement data component has been incorporated into CPRS and the pilot that allows providers the ability to enter First Placement
Best Placement assessment information continues. The eleven counties mentioned in the benchmark of this action step should not be
confused with the current FP/BP pilot/enhancements to CPRS. The eleven counties mentioned in the benchmark, refer to the 1 st
paragraph of this Action Step. The 2 nd paragraph of this action step was originally a part of the state’s PIP reporting on
accomplishments (see the January 2003 and the April 2003 quarterly reports) but was inadvertently added as part of the action step in
the 3 rd quarter report (July 2003). The original CPRS pilot (mentioned in the 2 nd paragraph of this action step) was completed and
CPRS was instituted statewide in July 2002 (see PIP Documentation Appendix July 2003, Tab 12). Statewide CPRS training was
concluded in July 2003 (see PIP Documentation July 2003, Tab 6). First Placement Best Placement technical assistance to staff and
providers is an on-going assigned work activity. All 159 counties have been trained and are continually provided technical assistance
as needed and upon request. First Placement Best Placement and CPRS have been integrated in all training for new workers and
veteran staff.
Additionally, the state has implemented the CAPTA requirements for the referral of children under the age of 3, who are involved in a
substantiated case of child maltreatment to early intervention services, which in Georgia is the Babies Can't Wait system. Also, the
procedure and practice requires the referral of all children in foster care ages birth to five to the Division of Public Health's Children
1 st Program.
8 th Quarter DOCUMENTATION:
(1) CPRS Health Care Status Screen.
(2) CPRS Results 10/28/2004, page 3, #8 Physical Health, #9 Mental Health.
(3) Social Services Manual Transmittal No. 2004-08 (P.L. 108--36, Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003)
(4) CAPTA Babies Can't Wait Training Agenda, training power point presentation, DFCS and Public Health foster care referral
process, and the DFCS child abuse and neglect referral process
(5) First Placement Best Placement Section VIII, Assessment Medical Standards & Reports
BARRIERS TO ACHIEVEMENT:
Safe Futures – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
November, 2004 Quarter 8 - Work Plan C Page 12