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Tools Developed by PCSAO
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Tools developed by the Public Children Services Association of Ohio
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Acronyms
used in the child protection and human services fields.
- A Campaign Toolkit
for Ohio's Children Services Agencies: "Choose
Your Partner Carefully"
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Adoption Resources and Accessing Records
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Alternative Response Pilot Project, and
AR RFP Responses to Prospective Applicants Questions
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Drug Endangered Children
Protocol Tool Kit
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Choose Your Partner Carefully - A Public
Awareness Campaign
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Combined Wage and Benefit Survey for 2007
- Collateral
Sources--In Non-Emergency Investigations
- County Child
Protection Workload Analysis.
This is an analysis of the activities and workloads of children services professionals. This information serves as a foundation for developing workload standards, unit costs, and determining human resource use and needs.
More about Caseload
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Child Welfare
Worker Safety Reports
Data
Tools for Ohio Leaders in Child Welfare - Using data to
control costs and keep children safe. -
Effectively Communicate with
the Public, provides suggestions on how to cultivate a positive
relationship with the media and the general public.
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Erie CDJFS AA Guide for Parents
(2/2006)
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Executive Leadership Institute
(ELI) is a residential training program which provides leaders of public and
nonprofit organizations with new knowledge and skills to steer their
organizations through an increasingly competitive and collaborative
environment.05)
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Family Centered,
Neighborhood Based Practice
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Financial Management Manual
for Public
Children Services Agencies offers suggestions for executives and financial managers to consider in building and implementing their annual child
protection budgets.
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A Family's Guide to Fostering,
Foster-to-Adopt and Adoption with Ohio's public child
protection system. (available in English and
Spanish)
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HB 79 New Requirement for Sharing
Information with ODE
- HB 484 confidentiality
Issues for Drug and Alcohol services and Child Welfare
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HIPAA
and Child Welfare
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Human Trafficking – Resource Guide
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Human Resources Standards
for Effective
Practice on Recruitment and Retention.
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Investing TANF in Child Welfare
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IRS Tax Law--by Wendy Speelman
(posted 11/21/2006)
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LEADS
and Protecting Children
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Links
to on-line resources.
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Media Guide (8/2008)
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Minority
Disproportionality
(10/2005)
Minority
disproportionality in the child welfare system is a nationwide
problem that affects Native Americans, Asian Americans,
African American, and Latino American in Ohio as well.
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Ohio Administrative
Code (OAC) Rule Updates as of January-April 2009
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Ohio Public Children
Service Agency Staff-Elements of a Quality Workforce.
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PCSA
Directory,
listing addresses
and phone numbers for Ohio PCSAs.
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PCSAO Levy
Survey
(updated: 8/31/2005)
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County Commissioner Survey
on Tax Levy,
Levy Campaign Guide
County Children Services Levy Campaign Development and Implementation.
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PCSAs Staff Turnover Survey (2006
and 2007 surveys)
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Peer Mentoring Resources--A
program which assists foster youth in developing healthy
connections with their mentor and with other youth and young
adults to help stabilize and strengthen the life of a young
person in foster care, as well as develop leadership skills in
the young adult mentor.
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Public
Resources and ASFA:
Presented at the National
Center for Adoption Law and Policy, October 2003 by Crystal W.
Allen
- PCSAO Salary
Surveys:
2006 PCSAO Salary Survey
(Published on 1/31/2007),
2004
PCSAO Salary
Survey
(Published
on 10/27/2005)
- PCSA
Safety Incident Report
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SACWIS Tips
Suggestions for agencies to consider prior to going live, from
Columbiana County DJFS - 03/2007
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Sample Community Training
Grant
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Socio-Legal
CPS Committee recommendations
contain information on how to improve the partnership between prosecuting/staff attorneys and social workers, including guidelines for
social work documentation.
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Sample Position Descriptions
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Standards
for Effective Practice
were written by child protection professionals to detail best practice in
the areas of administration, adoption, intake, independent living, protective and
out-of-home care services.
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Strategic Communications Resource Library
provides sample P/R materials that can be adapted and customized to your
needs.
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The Pew
Commission on Children in Foster Care
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