Manager Value 3
Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Full Potential and Develop Lifelong Relationships

Recognizing that the optimal place for children/youth is safely in their own homes.

​• Ensure availability of training and coaching
• Incorporate coaching into consultation
• Message importance and value of family participation
• Inquire about the development and quality of the safety network in consultations
• Advocate for needed services/troubleshoot barriers with existing services
• Inquire and incorporate Structured Decision Making (SDM) in consultations.
• Verify compliance of region/unit
• Ensure availability of training
• Assess training needs/availability
• Discuss and model a solution-focused approach in supervision, meetings, and case consultations
• Participate in ongoing coaching
​• Identify least restrictive level of placement when involved in consult/multidisciplinary teams (MDT)

If children have to leave the home to maintain safety, we actively strive to preserve their connections to siblings, family, and familiar people; school and community of origin; and, culture, religious, and tribal affiliations.

• Develop and foster community partnerships
• Encourage and foster concepts of preserving connections throughout life of case
• Highlight/share success stories
• Monitor/track relative placement
• Identify systems barriers
• Identify solutions
• Build relationships with after school programs to support children/youth to remain in their school of origin
​• Identify system barriers and create solutions (e.g., contracts)

Identifying living situations that support children and their relationships should be done as quickly as possible

• Facilitate relationships between placement units
• Establish communication expectations/process between unit and relative home approval (RHA) unit
• Monitor Team Decision Making (TDM) statistics and discuss in consultations
​• Review all relative home approvals (RHAs) and exemptions/waivers

Holding a sense of urgency when seeking permanency for children

• Monitor the use of the Interagency Placement Committee (IPC) and Permanency Round Tables (PRT)
• Elevate system’s challenges to Policy and Program Support (PPS)
• Monitor the use of Family Centered Meetings (FCMs) in the region and elevate any challenges to PPS
​• Discuss reunification dates, placement, and visitation level with supervisors during supervision

Continual focus on children’s well-being while they are in our care.

• Monitor statistics on mental health screening in the region, and elevate barriers to completion to PPS
• Support participation and encourage referrals to Camp Connect
• Highlight the importance of family connections throughout the life of the case in staff meetings
• Highlight the importance of using tools in real time to complete a thorough assessment
• Monitor Safe Measures related to well-being and dis-cuss in supervision the child’s/youth’s development, mental health, and overall well-being
• Elevate any concerns with educational stability and success to PPS/Educational liaisons
​• Communicate training needs to PPS