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0600-505.12 | Revision Date: 07/01/14
Overview
This policy guide details procedures to ensure that staff identify and document a client’s disability and needs for services. For the purpose of this policy guide, a client may include a child, birth parent, caregiver, or other individual who has a significant role in the child’s case.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Identification and Documentation of a Client’s Disability and the Need for Special Services
Receiving Information Indicating a Client has a Disability
ER/Case-Carrying CSW Responsibilities
Version Summary
This policy guide was updated from the 06/28/10 version, as part of the Policy Redesign, in accordance with the DCFS Strategic Plan.
DCFS is required by law to ensure:
DCFS must also provide an opportunity for individuals with disabilities to request the auxiliary aids and services of their choice. The exception is when either another effective means of communication or assistance exists or the requested communication means is not required under existing regulations.
Once information is obtained that identifies a client as disabled, DCFS is required to ensure that this disability is documented in the case record. Requests for auxiliary aids and/or services must also be documented.
ER/Case-Carrying CSW Responsibilities
None
Family Background #1
Family Background #2 - DI
Family Background Addendum (Use with FB1 and/or FB2)
Family Background #3 - Medical and Social History Information About the Birth Mother/Father
Family Background #3 - Coversheet
JV-225, Health and Education Questionnaire
0070-501.10, Communication Needs of Non-English Speaking Clients
0080-507.20, Concurrent Planning and the Concurrent Planning AssessmentAn assessment document as prescribed in Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 366.21(I), 366.22(b) and 361.5(g). The CPA is initiated by the case carrying Children's Social Worker and completed by the APRD CSW when adoption home study for attached children or matching/recruitment activities for unattached children are initiated. (CPA)
0300-503.12, Health and Education Questionnaire
0600-505.10, Placing Children with Special Health Care NeedsAssembly Bill 2268, defines children with special health care needs as those children who are either temporarily or permanently dependent upon medical equipment or in need of other specific kinds of specialized in-home health care, as determined by the child’s physician. See "medically fragile."
0070-516.10, Assessing a Child's Development & Referring to a Regional Center
0900-522.10, Specialized Care Increment (SCI) – D-Rate
0900-522.11, Specialized Care Increment (SCI) – F-Rate
0900-523.10, Social Security(SS)/Supplemental Security Income (SSISupplemental Security Income. This program pays monthly benefits to blind or disabled children/youth who have limited income and resources. It is administered by Social Security.) Benefits for Children in Care
1000-504.10, Case Transfer Criteria and Procedures
FYI 12-34, Referral to the Deaf Services Units, 08/20/12
California Department of Social Services (CDSS) Manual of Policies and Procedures (MPP) Division 21-115 – Contains, in part, the provisions for services to applicants and recipients who are non-English speaking or who have disabilities.
CDSS MPP Division 31-201 – States, in part, that when it has been determined that child welfare services are to be provided, the social worker is required to complete an assessment for each child for whom child welfare services are to be provided, and also gather and evaluate information relevant to the case situation and needs.
