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CERAP Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol - Answer Structured approach to decision-making designed to guide support and document professional judgement in situations in which children are potentially in danger immediately or in the very near future. A CERAP is used through the life of a case; always. Focus only on the information which you are given. - Answer Do not read, assume, or attribute evidence to other "ifs" of the situation. Key information related to Safety Threat Assessment: - Answer Child vulnerability Severity of the Behavior/Condition History Safety Threat Identification If a scenario is a safety concern: - Answer all of the threat answers will be either safety concern or no concern If a scenario is a risk concern: - Answer all of the threat answers will be either risk concern or no concern. If any one of the individual threats is present in the scenario: - Answer you would mark that group as a Safety or Risk Concern. If none of the individual threats are present in the scenario: - Answer We would mark that group No Concern
Physical Abuse/Neglect/Threat: - Answer This section contains five safety threats related to causing moderate to severe harm or threatening harm. History of abuse neglect (physical or sexual) - Answer This section has only one safety threat associated with past history of abuse and/or neglect. This does not include only indicated reports. It does include the anecdotal accounts too. Caretaker Behaviors: - Answer This section combines threats that relate to the behavior of the caretaker. Remember the definition of the caretaker-- anyone who influences the safety of the child. Special issues: - Answer Is where we combine sexual abuse and the underlying issues we have been discussing (ie. developmental disability, poverty, neglect) Human trafficking: - Answer This section has only one safety threat related to forced labor or sexual exploitation that causes moderate to severe or threatening harm. Safety assessment goals: - Answer -Determine if there is (or is not) a threat to the child's safety. -Determine if the child is safe or unsafe -Use our critical thinking skills to analyze and apply the information we collect from the safety assessment process to the safety plan and interventions that will achieve child safety. We assess safety through the life of a case. Safety definition - Answer A child is considered to be safe when an assessment of available information supports the belief that a child is not in immediate (near future) danger of moderate to severe harm. Safety is a subset of risk: within risk there is safety.
Degree of harm: low to severe Purpose of intervention: resolve or reduce Steps to Determining Safety - Answer Step 1: Identify relevant safety threats. Step 2: Describe the safety threat you checked, identifying perpetrator, child victims and source(s) of information. Step 3: Record family strengths and mitigating circumstances. Step 4: Make Safety Decision Child Vulnerability factors: - Answer •Younger children who lack good verbal skills, in particular, non-verbal children.
- Children affected by developmental disabilities/deficits.
- Children who have serious medical problems.
- Children who exhibit psychological, emotional, or behavioral problems. Safety threats - Answer Are behaviors or conditions that may be associated with a child or children being in danger of moderate to severe harm immediately or in the near future.
Family strengths/Mitigating circumstances - Answer Must take place on the initiative of family members and not at the suggestion or instigation of Department staff. Action part of a safety plan: - Answer When members of the family initiate plan because of the suggestion or instigation of Department staff. When are Safety Threats Mitigated? - Answer -Caregivers, acting on their own initiative, take reasonable action(s) to correct dangerous behaviors/conditions. -There is an adult caregiver residing in the home who is willing and able to control the identified behavior/condition. -The caregiver(s) responsible for the safety threat are removed from the home. If no safety threats are identified: - Answer all involved children must be assessed as safe. If one or more safety threats have been identified and all identified safety threats are adequately controlled by family strengths or actions: - Answer all involved children must be assessed as safe. This decision requires supervisory consultation via phone at the time of assessment. If one or more safety threats have been identified and all identified safety threats are not controlled (mitigated) by family strengths or actions: - Answer all children affected by the unmitigated safety factor must be assessed as unsafe. this decision requires supervisory consultation via phone at the time of assessment.
Caregiver - Answer CERAP is a ____________________ assessment only - Answer Familial, is only done in the house of the children or where children will go live, NOT in foster homes. Any child safety threats identified in CERAP must..... - Answer Be incorporated into the SACWIS Family Service Plan History - Answer Any known or credibly alleged previous or on-going examples of an identified dangerous behavior/condition for which a caregiver is responsible Paramour - Answer A current ex-boyfriend or girlfriend who has been or may be or is in a care-taking role.-The paramour may or may not be residing within the family unit-Paramour involved families may be identified at the time of intake, during a child abuse or neglect investigation or anytime during the life of an open service case-A putative father would fall under the definition of paramour Safe - Answer After considering all reasonably available information/evidence concerning the presence of each of the 16 potential safety threats, and taking into account the vulnerability of the child, and considering the caregiver(s)'s displayed ability/action to mitigate any identified threats, it is determined that a child in the household or in custodial care is not likely to be moderated or severely harmed immediately or in the near future Safety Plan - Answer Voluntary, temporary, short-term plan designed to control serious and immediate threats to children's safety as a result of an unsafe finding on the CERAP.-Safety Plans can take a variety of forms and are developed with the input and voluntary consent of the children's legal caregivers and other family members-Safety plans are typically short term environmental manipulations to
ensure child safety; they are not interventions designed to change behaviors over the long term When Are Safety Plans Not Completed - Answer During investigations of foster homes, residential facilities, schools or day care facilities Unsafe - Answer After considering all reasonably available information/evidence concerning the presence of each of the 16 potential safety threats, and taking into account the vulnerability of the child, and considering the caregiver(s)'s displayed ability/action to mitigate any identified threats, it is determined that a child in a household or in custodial care is likely to be moderately or severely harmed immediately or in the near future. In the Event A Child is Considered Unsafe, What Must Be Done? - Answer A safety plan or protective custody must be implemented by the worker completing the CERAP, and approved by the supervisor Purpose of Intervention (Risk and Safety) - Answer Safety: Control the situation to prevent harm from occurring in the short term Risk: Resolve or Reduce the problems that lead to the risk How Must Safety Be Assessed? - Answer Quickly, often in one visit How must risk be assessed? - Answer Over a longer period of time, allowing time to gather, assess, and evaluate information Who is included in the CERAP safety asssessment - Answer All alleged child victims must be seen and, if verbal, interviewed out of the presence of the caregiver and alleged perpetrator
Rejection(subtype of emotional maltreatment) - Answer Parent consistently does not acknowledge the child's worth and validity of child's needs Terrorizing (subtype of emotional maltreatment) - Answer Parent verbally assaults the child, instills fear through bullying and threatening. The world is defined as a hostile and frightening place Ignoring (subtype of emotional maltreatment) - Answer The child is deprived of emotional stimulation and interaction Isolating (subtype of emotional maltreatment) - Answer The child is separated and cut off from normal social relationships. The child is prevented from forming friendships and is made to feel alone Corrupting (subtype of emotional maltreatment) - Answer The child is directed to engage in anti-social and destructive behaviors. Deviance is reinforced and a normal social experience is prevented Medical Neglect (subtype of neglect) - Answer Important medical care necessary of the child's well-being and health is withheld from the child Lack of Supervision (subtype of neglect) - Answer A parent or caregiver leaves a minor child under the age of 14 alone for an unreasonable period of time. Lack of Supervision occurs when a child is put at risk Non-Organic Failure to Thrive (subtype of neglect) - Answer A broad term to describe infants and children who do not gain weight and grow -Failure to thrive may be result of organic deficiencies and in these cases is not neglect
-However, when failure to thrive is diagnosed and no underlying disease or physical condition can be detected, lack of growth is non-organic and psycho- social in nature, meaning it is due to neglect Safety Neglect (subtype of neglect) - Answer When the parent or caregiver neglects important safety issues Abandonment (subtype of neglect) - Answer A child is abandoned when a parent intends to permanently leave a child Maternal Substance Abuse (subtype of neglect) - Answer A pregnant woman who abuses substances while pregnant passes the substance via the bloodstream to her unborn child. A baby who is born with drugs in his/her system is considered to be neglected
