Safe Futures A Plan for Program Improvement - Department of ...

Goal: Determine if court delays are impacting length of time to achieve adoption.
E22 ACTION STEPS:
Court Improvement Project (CIP) will complete assessment of juvenile court processes through surveys and
interviews of judges and case file review to identify specific barriers.
What are you going to do about the barriers identified in this report?
COMPLETION
RESPONSIBLE
DATE
PERSON(S)
Michelle Barclay, Doris Walker
START
DATE
June 2002 Sept. 2002
5th Quarter: The
State requests an
extension to July
2004. Reason: to
explore specific
causes of delay for
adoption permanency.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Goal Achieved.
A report was completed in January 2003 and is posted on the CIP website:
http://www.state.ga.us/courts/supreme/cpp/
MEASURABLE
BENCHMARKS
Identification of barriers and needs.
Report of findings and recommendations.
4 th Quarter Federal Response: Noted as achieved but State did not respond to RO's question about what they will do about the
barriers identified in the CIP report. The goal for this and subsequent steps is: 'Determine if court delays are impacting length of time
to achieve adoption.'
5 th Quarter Report: At this time, the CIP does not have definitive knowledge of whether court delays alone are impacting length of
time to achieve adoption. There are of course courts that do cause delays, but there are also delays because of appeals, delays in
getting orders done, delays in attorneys and caseworkers filing paperwork and high caseloads. The CIP staff will continue to strive to
find specific performance measures to discover what causes delays for children whose permanency goal is adoption.
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Safe Futures – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
March, 2004 Quarter 5 - Work Plan E Page 28