View a Family Assessment

A family assessment helps you assess risk and identify the family's strengths and needs. This analysis allows the worker to determine the level of service the family requires. The family assessment must be completed if the agency intends to provide ongoing services. The assessment is completed for the following categories:

• CA/N category that is intra-familial, including intra-familial third party

• Family in need of services ("Stranger Danger" type)

• Dependency

The assessment is optional for intakes within the family in need of services category. See About assessment/investigations for more information.

To view a family assessment, complete the following steps:

1. From the Home screen, click the Case tab.

2. Click the Workload tab. The Case Workload screen appears.

3. Click the ID Number link of the case you want to view. The Case Overview screen appears.

4. Click the Family Assessment link in the menu on the left. The Family Assessment Filter Criteria screen appears.

5. Click the View link for the safety plan you want to view.  The Participant Information screen appears. This screen lists intakes associated with the assessment and the children and adults who are included in this safety assessment.

6. Click the Safety Review tab. The Safety Review Details screen appears. This screen lists the responses to a series of standard safety factors that are addressed in a safety assessment. This screen describes the level of safety threat present.

7. Click the Strengths & Needs tab. The Child Functioning screen appears. This tab displays a number of additional links that describe the child, adult, family, and historical functioning. Click each link to view the details.

8. Click the Risk Assessment tab. The Risk Scores screen appears. The risk assessment classifies families based on similar characteristics with family who have or have not repeatedly maltreated their children. As an actuarial risk assessment tool, it differentiates cases with intensive, high, moderate, or low classification categories.

9. If needed, click the Policy Override link (at the top of the screen) to view any override of the system-calculated score.

10. Click the Case Analysis tab. The Case Decision screen appears. The Preliminary Matrix-Indicated Case Decision area displays the disposition the system calculated based on the risk assessment scores.
    
    The system generates the Preliminary Matrix-Indicated Case Decision (PMICD) based on the most severe case disposition and the final risk level.

    Final Risk Level	Case Disposition	PMICD
    Intensive	Substantiated	Transfer to Ongoing Services
    Intensive	Indicated	Transfer to Ongoing Services
    Intensive	Unsubstantiated	Transfer to Ongoing Services
    High	Substantiated	Transfer to Ongoing Services
    High	Indicated	Transfer to Ongoing Services
    High	Unsubstantiated	Transfer, or Close and Refer Community Services
    Moderate	Substantiated	Transfer, or Close and Refer Community Services
    Moderate	Indicated	Close
    Moderate	Unsubstantiated	Close
    Low	Substantiated	Close
    Low	Indicated	Close
    Low	Unsubstantiated	Close

     

11. Click the Close button. You are returned to the Family Assessment Filter Criteria screen.