On December 5, 2024, your UPE team met with the County to discuss the new policy and procedure (P&P), Behaviorally Based Case Plans.
When creating the case plan, the department now wants you to include a goal statement. UPE asked what that consisted of and what it should state. The department responded that the goal statement should be the inverse of the danger statement and should follow the SMART model: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Results-Focused, and Time-Limited. CPS is just not sure where, in the case plan, they want you to put this information. UPE pointed out that this information is already in the case plan as the service objective, so why does it need to be on the case plan now? Also, is the Social Worker then just copying and pasting this information from one area to another once the department figures out the area they want it in? UPE argued that this is just busy work.
UPE remains concerned that the new behaviorally based case plan does not correlate to the actual case plan document that is used in CWS, and that their new P&P will just create extra work for the social workers.
Unfortunately, we were not able to continue due to time constraints, and the meeting will be reconvened for another date.
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Thank you, Brenda Bryant, Sondra Peters and Sarah Singleton, for your advocacy!
