Target Audience: New Child Protective Services and Foster Care workers and those individuals involved in the permanency planning process. Length: Two Days CEUs: 1.1 Foster Care 1 - 6 month mandatory. Overview: Case planning is a collaborative effort between families, caseworkers, and other providers. It helps identify, organize, and monitor activities and services to families needed to achieve and document case outcomes. This foundational course discusses how these formal “action plans” are based on family assessments that identify high need areas and help determine service objectives. Learn how the planning process is dynamic and occurs throughout the life of a case. Topics Include: • Define case planning and list in order the steps in effective case planning. • Strategies to engage families in the case planning process. • Issues of culture, motivation, and change impact the development of the case plan. • Interview strategies to engage families • Engage and involve fathers in the case planning process. • Identify the goals of case planning. • Correctly formulate objectives and activities to address the case plan goal. • Fundamental concepts regarding concurrent planning. • Regular case reviews to monitor progress and modify case assessment, goals, objectives, and activities as needed. • Interview strategies to help clients stay invested in the change process. • Home visits to provide casework services. • Factors to consider for appropriate case closures. Register online at https://covkc.virginia.gov/kc/login/login.asp?kc_ident=kc0001&strUrl=https://covkc.virginia.gov/dss/external/Default.asp