CWRCA collaborative effort of the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work and the Pennsylvania Children and Youth Administrators established to train direct service workers, supervisors, administrators and foster parents in providing social services to abused and neglected children and their families.
Child Permanency PlanWhen a child is placed in out-of-home care, the agency with custody is required to collaborate with all stakeholders to develop and prepare a CPP (amendment to the Family Service Plan) for each child. The agency must involve the parents, child, youth, relatives, kin and other stakeholders to develop the CPP.
The CPP also includes a wide variety of information for the courts and should be provided to all parties. The CPP contains specific information about a child, such as: circumstances that made placement necessary, the child’s primary permanency goal and concurrent planning goal, the placement type and location, medical and educational information, appropriateness of the placement, justification for the placement’s level of restrictiveness and anticipated duration of the placement.
CPPWhen a child is placed in out-of-home care, the agency with custody is required to collaborate with all stakeholders to develop and prepare a CPP (amendment to the Family Service Plan) for each child. The agency must involve the parents, child, youth, relatives, kin and other stakeholders to develop the CPP.
The CPP also includes a wide variety of information for the courts and should be provided to all parties. The CPP contains specific information about a child, such as: circumstances that made placement necessary, the child’s primary permanency goal and concurrent planning goal, the placement type and location, medical and educational information, appropriateness of the placement, justification for the placement’s level of restrictiveness and anticipated duration of the placement.
Closed AdoptionThe birth parent and adoptive parent do not share any identifying information about themselves nor do they have any contact. This is not as common as in earlier years as current practice recognizes the importance of some level of communication between birth parents and adoptive parents about a child.
Concurrent PlanningA process of working towards one legal permanency goal (typically reunification) while at the same time establishing and implementing an alternative permanency goal and plan so children and older youth can more quickly move to a safe and stable permanent family in case the primary goal cannot be accomplished promptly (Permanency Roundtable Project, 2010). It involves a mix of meaningful family engagement, targeted case practice and legal strategies aimed at achieving timely permanency, while at the same time establishing and actively working a concurrent permanency plan. It is not a fast track to adoption, but to permanency.
