Pregnant and Parenting Youth

Tools to Support Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Care

Welcome Today we will cover: Utilizing the Pregnant

and Parenting Teen Guidebook and tip sheets

Shared Planning Meeting Requirements

Identifying and referring for needed services

Health & Safety Visit Requirements

Documenting in FamLink

Competencies

Competencies for Case Workers:SW214-02 Understands service needs of sexually active youth, pregnant and parenting teens, including the need for birth control and dating violence prevention and educationSW217-01 Ability to provide or identify and refer for children and youth individualized supportive and treatment services as needs emergeSW219-03 Ability to work with parents to help them use information and skills, and resources, developed from service provision to strengthen their ability to provide safe care to their childrenSW219-04 Ability to use the Shared Planning process to promote collaboration, shared-decision making, and discuss progress and/or barriers to successful outcomes

Competencies

Competencies for Supervisors:SUP207-09 Ability to model, coach, and monitor staff in developing and implementing accurate and timely case plans for families and relevance of servicesSUP207-10 Ability to model, coach, and monitor staff in developing and implementing case plans for families that promote accurate objectives and culturally responsive services/resources to address child safety and families’ needsSUP207-12 Ability to support worker’s involvement in advocating for children and families in other service systemsSUP207-13 Ability to monitor children’s education status and guide staff in utilizing resources and tools to develop educational plans

A Crucial Connection: Working Together to Address Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care

www.thenationalcampaign.org

https://thenationalcampaign.org/resource/crucial-connection#

Initial thoughts about the video we just watched?

Have you ever had a parenting father on your caseload?

Examples of how Social Workers and Caregivers can support pregnant and parenting youth in care.

Discussion:

Learning Outcomes

Ability to provide pregnant and

parenting mothers and fathers with

information about their rights and the duties and

responsibilities of Children's

Administration

Learning Outcomes

Understand the requirement to conduct a Shared Planning Meeting

within ten days of the youth’s disclosure of

pregnancy

Learning Outcomes

Ability to identify and refer for needed services

Learning Outcomes

Understand discussion and assessment

requirements associated with Health and Safety

visits

Learning Outcomes

Ability to document aspects of pregnant and

parenting youth in FamLink

Tools to Support Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Care

Shared Planning Meetings

Must occur within 10 days of the youth’s disclosure of pregnancy

Identify needed services

Identify how the youth will be supported to make healthy decisions

Discuss Tribal enrollment if applicable

Distribute the Guidebook & Tip Sheets

Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections

It’s important for youth to engage in services: Medical Educational Parenting Social/Emotional Chemical Dependency

Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections

Comprehensive Continuum of Services supporting meaningful connections: Services to help youth

“heal, learn and grow” Gender & Culturally

Responsive Trauma Informed Strengths-based

Pai-Espinosa, J. Y. (2010). Young mothers at the margin, why pregnant teens need support. Children's VOICE, 13-16. Retrieved from www.cwla.org

Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections

Preparing youth for the stress of parenthood: Early & Periodic assessment

of parenting beliefs, skills & interactions

Comprehensive services to address; parenting skills, expectations of child development & their own adolescent development

Budd, K. S., Holdsworth, M. J., & HogenBruen, K. D. (2006). Antecedents an concomitants of parenting stress in adolescent mothers in foster care. Child Abuse & Neglect, 30, 557-574. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.11.006

Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections

Engagement in services can help youth:

Build positive connections with: Peers Mentors

Develop: Healthy Relationships Natural Supports

Who to invite?• Work in table groups

• Based on the scenario, who would you invite to Aimee’s SPM?

Who to invite?Report Back

Services

Think about:• Educational Needs• Mental Health Support• Chemical Dependency Treatment• Basic Needs• Parenting Support & Home Visiting Services

Accessing Services

• ILP• Community Mental

Health/Infant Mental Health

• Safe Babies Safe Moms• Medical Care, TANF &

WIC• Early Head Start• Nurse Family Partnership

• Parents as Teachers• Circle of Security• Incredible Years• Triple P• NCAST Assessment• Safe Sleep• Period of Purple Crying• ASQ developmental

assessment…..

Connections

Health Care

Education Social Services

Lachance, C. R., Barrus, B. B., & Scott, A. R. (2012). Building an evidence base to inform interventions for pregnant and parenting adolescents: A call for rigorous evaluation. American Journal of Public Health, 102(10), 1826-1832.

Health & Safety Visits

Important Policy – Practices and Procedures Manual

• 4420 Health and Safety Visits (https://

www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/4400-tanf-benefits/4420health-and-safety-visits-children-and-monthly-visits-caregivers-and-parents)

• 43066 Pregnant and Parenting Youth (https://

www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/4306-filing-petition-terminate-parental-rights/43066-pregnant-and-parenting-youth)

• 1135 Infant Safety Education and Intervention (https://

www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/1100-child-safety/1135-infant-safety-education-and-intervention)

Pregnant Youth

Discuss/Assess/Document:Pregnancy servicesReferrals to community

resourcesThe needs of the unborn

child after the 28th week of pregnancy

Placement options Education and ILP needsFatherhood Engagement

Parenting Youth

Discuss/Assess/Document:Accessing medical services The youth’s role as a

parent Referrals to community

resourcesEducation and ILP needsFatherhood EngagementTribal Enrollment if

applicable Infant Safety Policy

Infant Safety

Discuss/Assess/Document:

Newborn: Plan of Safe Care 0-6 months: Period of

Purple Crying 0-12 months: Infant Safe

Sleep

Caregivers

• Supplemental rate• Parenting the Youth

while coaching the youth to parent

• Supports and Services available for the Caregiver

• Caregiver Tip Sheet• Potential for conflict

Mitigating Conflict between parenting youth and their caregivers• Work in table groups

• Based on the scenario, how would you mitigate conflict between Aimee and her aunt?

Mitigating Conflict between parenting youth and their caregivers

Report Back

Safety & Permanency

Safety & Permanency

Most common concern for safe parenting is unrealistic expectations of child development

Assessment of the youth’s ability to safely parent is crucial!

Aparicio, E., Pecukonis, E. V., & O'Neale, S. (2015). "The love that I was missing": Exploring the lived experience of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care.Children and Youth Services Review, 51, 44-54. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.02.002

Teen parents are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system

The children of teen parents are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system

Safety & Permanency

Physical safety of the child’s environmentParental stress and stress responsesThe Youth’s understanding of appropriate

developmental expectationsParent-child interactions, including the Youth’s

ability to interpret and respond to the infant’s cues

The caregiver’s impression of the Youth’s ability to safely parent

Safety & Permanency

Helping Youth Build a Community

Safety & Permanency

Community is a big piece of permanency for youth

The permanent plan might look different now

Safety & Permanency

Transparency in addressing safety concernsTaking protective action and Safety Planning

FTDM’s and Case PlanningDependency Actions

FAMLINK

Health/Mental Health Record: All Medical Care

FAMLINK

Person Management Page: teen parent selection

FAMLINK

Foster Care Rate: basic foster care with non-dependent child

Reminders/Q&A

• All efforts should be made to keep the child(ren) and teen parent together• Only file a petition when all efforts to keep the child(ren) and family safe

have been exhausted• Ask males on your caseload if they are fathers• Link pregnant and/or parenting teens to the different community

resources • Teen parents are balancing adolescence with parenthood• Teen parents will sometimes struggle with rules and roles within the

placement• Document, document and document!

Closure & Evaluations

Thank you!

Please take a moment to complete the course evaluation.