Georgia Department of Human Services

Resource Development Policy Meeting

IMPACT Process & Casey Home

Assessment Protocol

First In-Home Consultation• Answer questions from

information session.

• Discuss the FE/Approval Process

• Review Self-Assessment and Reason for Fostering questions

• Tour the Home

• Provide Evaluation Paperwork Packet (EPP)

Second In-Home Consultation• Discuss any questions/concerns

• Assess the family’s progress in pre-service training and completing required paperwork.

• Discuss contents of their Learning Journals

• Begin interviewing family members

• Review results from questionnaire, assessments including the Casey Family Assessment

• Determine progress made on completing Physical/Medical Information, Drug Screen, Fingerprints, CPR/1st Aid

Third In-Home Consultation• Complete interview process • Discuss the family’s decision to

foster or adopt;• Discuss the family’s preference

of a child(ren) to be placed in their home and complete Placement Preference form.

• Discuss potential resources that the family may need;

• Discuss the next steps • Discuss the family’s continuing

education plan.• Collect any additional

paperwork

Casey Foster Applicant Inventory (CFAI) Casey Home Assessment Protocol (CHAP)

http://www.fosterfamilyassessments.org/index.htm

CHAP1. Available Time Scale-ATS

2. Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-AUDIT

3. Foster Parent Role Performance Scale-FPRP

4. Receptivity to Birth Family Connections Scale-RBFC

5. Reasons for Fostering Checklist-RFC

6. Social Readjustment Rating Scale-SRRS

7. Cultural Receptivity Scale-CRFS

Process for Foster and Adoptive Parents

• Each parent is required to independently complete each of the seven CHAP scales

• Each parent independently enters a score on the cells next to each item-each scale has a different scoring system

• Submit completed CHAP Scales at required intervals to case manager completing Family Evaluation

Process for Case Managers

• Open the CHAP Excel Scoring Program (2 MB). Once downloaded, click "Enable Macros" and then click "Read Only"

• Complete the Background Information worksheet for each family

• Enter data from the submitted forms onto the CHAP Excel Scoring Program in each of the respective worksheets

FAMILY EVALUATION• Motivation-Reason for Fostering Checklist

• Caregiver History- – History of Drug & Alcohol Use-Alcohol Use Disorder– Medical Evaluation- Social Readjustment Rating

• Family Operation/Family Interaction-Available Time Scale

• Partnership Parenting-Foster Parent Role Performance and Receptivity to Birth Family Connections

• Caregiver Protective Capacities-Cultural Receptivity