Concurrent Planning: Conversations and Documentations

Credits: 6 hours
Level: All
Modality: Virtual Delivery
ICPM Category: Service Planning and Delivery
 

Course Description:

This course is an overview of a few key elements in the practice of Concurrent Planning within the child welfare system in California. Specifically, we will talk about how to successfully engage in conversation with children and families and others about multiple permanency plans and how to best document that work.
 

Intended Learning Objectives:

• Identify at least three tasks necessary to adequately prepare for and conduct high-quality permanency conversations.
• Name four of the legal permanency plans in California.
• Describe at least two concurrent planning activities that must be documented in case notes and in court reports.
• List three reasons why discussing multiple permanency plans throughout the life of the case is necessary.
• Explain the benefits of utilizing a strengths-based, child-centered, trauma-responsive, and culturally-effective approach.

Skills

• Identify at least three tasks necessary to adequately prepare for and conduct high-quality permanency conversations.
• Name four of the legal permanency plans in California.
• Describe at least two concurrent planning activities that must be documented in case notes and in court reports.
• List three reasons why discussing multiple permanency plans throughout the life of the case is necessary.
• Explain the benefits of utilizing a strengths-based, child-centered, trauma-responsive, and culturally-effective approach.

Values

• The benefits of facilitating emotionally complex, honest, full-disclosure conversations with children, youth, non-minor dependents, parents, Tribes, and other significant partners throughout the life of the case.
• Focus on utilizing strengths-based, child-centered, trauma-responsive, culturally-effective communication and service delivery.
• Endorse the practice of regularly and thoroughly engaging all known and relevant parties about potential plans or outcomes to avoid causing surprise, and that this practice has clear benefits for all parties involved.
• Accurate and thorough documentation is an essential part of safety, permanency, and well-being, not a separate endeavor.

Topics Include: Review of Quality of Documentation

Documentation of Concurrent Planning can appear in:

• Case notes and plan
• Contacts and service delivery
• Court reports
• CFT meeting notes
• And other places as appropriate