CHILD WELFARE MANUAL

7.3.5 Contact with Treatment Providers

The Children’s Service Worker should contact treatment providers within the 90-day treatment period to determine the family’s responsiveness to treatment issues. The worker and treatment provider will discuss:

  1. Family’s attendance at sessions;
  2. Family’s level of participation in treatment;
  3. Specific issues which are being addressed and how;
  4. Family’s loss and grief issues;
  5. Whether family is currently or likely to benefit from the current treatment methodology or is another approach needed;
  6. How the provider measures outcomes of treatment;
  7. Other services needed;
  8. Timetable for resolution of identified issues and concerns;
  9. Recommendations regarding return home of the child, changes in visitation plan, and continuation of treatment; and
  10. Request reports, if overdue.

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