Policy Manual and Practice Guides

Volume 1 - Administration

Chapter 1 - Department of Children and Families
Parents Right to Know Brochures
1-1 Mission, Strategies and Cross-Cutting themes
1-2 Strengthening Families Practice Model
1-3Civil Rights
1-4Official Policy Forms and Practice Guides

2-1 Deputy Commissioner for Administration Overview
2-2 Fiscal Services Division
2‐2PG Practice Guide: Credentialing for Service Providers
2‐2PG Practice Guide: DCF Contracting and Procurement Guide
2-2 Attachment A Grants and Contracts: Combating Fraud, Waste and Abuse/False Claims
2-2 Attachment B Grants and Contracts: Procurement of Services by RFP
2-2PG Practice Guide: Short Term Stabilization
2-2F Addendum Short Term StabilizationCertification
2-2 Attachment A Addendum to Short-Term Stabilization Maintenance Payments
2-2-1 Revenue Enhancement
2-2-1.1 Random Moment Time Study (RMTS)
2-2-1.2 IV-E Eligibility
2-2-1.3 IV-E Determination and Redeterminations
2-2-1.4 Federal Adoption Assistance Program Eligibility Criteria
2-2-1.5 Medical Eligibility
2-2-1.6 Social Security Benefits
2-2-1.6PG Practice Guide: Social Security Benefits
2-2-2 Engineering Services
2-3 Human ResourcesManagement
2‐3PG Practice Guide: Supervisor's Guide to Corrective Discipline Including Attendance Expectations
2-3-1 Employee Code of Conduct
2-3-2 Supervision
2‐3‐2PG, Practice Guide: Supervision
2-3-3 Appropriate Attire and Presentation Policy
2-3-4 Report of Violation of Work Rule Policy or Law
2-3-4F Alleged Policy/Regulation/Work Rule Violation Report
2-4 Information Systems Division
2-4 Attachment A LossReporting Action Steps
2-4-1 Proper Use of FBI Criminal Information
2-5 Academy for Workforce Development
2‐5PG Practice Guide: DCF Academy for Workforce Knowledge and Development
2-6 DCF Police Division
2-6 Attachment A POST Council Certification Division Advisory 2011-01
2-6 Attachment B POST Qualification Relay
2-6 Attachment C Certification Renewal FAQ's

Chapter 3 - Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Operations

3-1 Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Operations Overview
3-1 PG Practice Guide: Worker Support and Secondary Trauma
3-1 PG Practice Guide:Early Childhood for Children Ages Zero to Five
3-1 PGA Practice Guide Appendices: Early Childhood for Children Ages Zero to Five
3‐1PG Notification of Adverse Action Against a Provider
3-2 Education Management
3-2 Attachment A Educational Stability Procedure
3-2-1 College/Post-Secondary Education Assistance
3-2-1F College/Post-Secondary Education Assistance Application Form
3-2-1 PG Post-Secondary Education Financial Assistant Program Practice Guide
3-3 Unified School District #2
3-3-1 School Climate Plan
3-3-2 Students' Rights and Discrimination
3-4 Private Facility and Program Licensing
3-4 PG Practice Guide: Private Provider Licensing

Chapter 4 - Office of the Chief of Staff

4-1 Chief of Staff Overview
4-2 Communications and Media Relations
4-3 Governmental Affairs
4-4 Grants Development
4-5 Change Management
4-6 Webmaster

Chapter 5 - Chief of Quality and Planning

5-1 (under revision) Office of the Chief of Quality and Planning Overview
5-2 Administrative Case Review
5-3 Institutional Review Board
5-3 Attachment A Institutional Review Board DNA & Genetics
5-4 Client Data Protections and Client Data Dignity

Chapter 6 - Office of Legal Affairs

6-1 Office of Legal Affairs Overview
6-2 Confidentiality
6-3 Failure to Report (NEW Policy Number is 22-1-3)
6-4 Records Management
6-4-1 Uniform Case Record
6-5 Administrative Hearings
6-6 Superior Court for Juvenile Matters
6-6A Summary of Facts in Support of Petition for Termination of Parental Rights
6-6B Social Study in Support of Petition for Termination of Parental Rights
6-6C Affidavit in Support of OTC
6-6D Summary of Facts for Neglect
6-6E Social Study in Support of Neglect
6-6F Study in Support of Permanency Plan
6-6G Status Report
6-7 Probate Courts
6-7 PG Practice Guide: Probate Courts
6-7 Attachment A:DCF-Probate-001 Interagency Agreement Letter
6-7 Attachment B:DCF-Probate-002 Probate Court Study
6-7 Attachment C:DCF-Probate-003 Report for Temporary Custody
6-7 Attachment D: DCF-Probate-004 Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) Study
6-7-1 Temporary Custody
6-7-2 Guardianship
6-7-3 Mental Health Commitments
6-7-4 Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
(Under Review) 6-7-5 Voluntary Services Review

Chapter 7 - Office of Diversity and Equity

7-1 Office of Diversity and Equity Overview
7-2 ADA for DCF Employees
7-3 ADA for Clients in Child Protective Services

Chapter 8 - Regional Administration

8-1 Bureau of Child Welfare
8-2 Case Narratives

Chapter 9 - Albert J. Solnit Children's Center

9-1 Albert J. Solnit Children's Center Overview

Chapter 10 - Wilderness School

10-1 Wilderness School Overview

Volume 2 - Child Welfare Program Management

Chapter 20 - Case Planning

20-1 Case Planning Overview
DCF-780 (Child Bill of Rights and Expectations)
20-1 PG Practice Guide: Case Planning
20-1-1 Purposeful Visitation and Contact Standards
20-1-1 PG Practice Guide: Purposeful Visitation
20-2 Case Transfer Between Offices

Chapter 21 - Specialized Child Welfare Subject Matter

21-1 Trauma-Informed Care
21-1PG Practice Guide: Trauma-Informed Care
21-2 ABCD Child Safety Practice Model Policy
21-2-PG Practice Guide: The ABCD Child Safety Practice Model and Safety Planning Practice Guide
21-3 Delivery of Services Using a Client’s Preferred Method of Communication
21-3-PG Practice Guide: Delivery of Services Using a Client’s Preferred Method of Communication
21-4 Early Childhood Education
21-4 PG Practice Guide: Access to Early Childhood Education
21-5 Health and Wellness
21‐5PG Health Care Standards and Practice for Children and Youth in Care
21-5-1 HIV Testing
21-5-1 PG Practice Guide: HIV
21-5-2 Certification of Child’s Complex Medical Needs
21-6 Regional Resource Group
21-6F Form: Request for Multi-Disciplinary Case Conference
21-6 PG Practice Guide: RRG
21-6 PGA Practice Guide Attachment: RRG Attachment
21-7 Substance Use Disorder Screening and Testing
21‐7PG Practice Guide: Substance Use
21-7-1 Naloxone Policy
21-8 Intimate Partner Violence
21-9 Safe Sleep Environment
21-9 PG Practice Guide: Safe Sleep
21-10 Breast feeding during placement
21-11 Newborn and Infant
21-12 Safe Havens for Newborns
21-13 Immigration
21-13 PG Practice Guide: Immigration
21-14 Human Trafficking
21‐14PG Practice Guide:Human Trafficking
21-15 Missing from Care
21-15PG Practice Guide: Missing from Care Policy
21-16 Gender Identity and Sexuality
21-16PG Practice Guide: Working with Transgender Youth
21-17 Native American Families
21-17 ICWA Form
21-18 Ethnic Skin and Hair Care
21-19 Animal Abuse or Neglect Reporting Procedures
21-20 USE Plans
21-20PG Practice Guide: USE
21-21 Alternative Caregiver Arrangement
21-22 Restraint of Clients
21‐22PG Practice Guide: Approval Process for Prevention and Emergency Safety Intervention Training Programs
21-23 Foreign Nationals and the Vienna Convention
21-24 Disabled Infants with Life Threatening Conditions

Chapter 22 - Careline and Intake

22-1 Child Abuse and Neglect Careline Overview
22-1PG Practice Guide: Careline
22-1PG Practice Guide: SDM Careline Manual
22-1 Attachment A Mandated Reporters Attachment
22-1-1 Special Investigations Unit
22-1-2 Notification of Exceptional Circumstances
22-1-3 Mandated Reporter's Failure to Report
22-1-4 EPIU Policy
22-2 Intake
22-2-1 Family Assessment Response
22‐2‐1PG Practice Guide: Family Assessment Response
22-2-2 Child Protective Investigations
22-3 Operational Definitions of Abuse and Neglect
22-4 Central Registry Placements
22-5 Appeal Process
22-5-1 Elimination of Barriers to Licensure, Placement, Family Arrangements and Limitations of Access

Chapter 23 - Ongoing Services

23-1 Ongoing Services Overview
23-2 In-Home Cases
23-2-1 Voluntary Placement Cases
23-3 Removal from Home and Placement
23-4 Out-of-Home Placement Cases

Chapter 24 - Foster Care Services

24-1 Foster Care Services Overview
24‐1PG Practice Guide: Foster Care Services
24-1-1 Foster Care Licensing
24-1-2 Foster Care Expenses
For Foster Care Maintenance Payment Rate Schedule, please see policy 2-2
24-2 Foster Parent and Licensed Caregiver Bill of Rights

Chapter 25 - Permanency Planning

25-0 Introduction
25-1 Kinship Care
25-2 Shared Parenting
25-3 Permanency Teaming
25-3-1 Considered Removal: Child and Family Team Meetings
Practice Guides
25-3 PG Practice Guide: Child and Family Permanency Teaming
25-3 PGA Practice Guide Appendices: Child and Family Permanency Teaming
25-3-1 PG Practice Guide: Considered Removal: Child and Family Team Meetings
25-4 Reunification
25-4F Trial Home Visit Notification
25-5 Visitation
25-6 Permanency Plans
25-7 Termination of Parental Rights
25-8 Adoption

Chapter 26 - Subsidies

26-1 Subsidized Transfer of Guardianship Overview
26-2 Adoption Subsidies

Chapter 27 - Interstate Compacts

27-1 Interstate Compacts Overview
27-1-1 Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC)
27-1-2 Interstate Compact on Mental Health (ICMH)
27-1-3 Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance (ICAMA)

Chapter 28 - Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports

28-1 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Services Post Majority)
28‐1PG Practice Guide: V.I.T.A.L
28-1-1 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Assessment and Planning)
28-1-2 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Youth in Transition from the Department)
28-1-3 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Secondary Education)
28-1-4 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Transitional Living Programs)
DCF-2251 Community Housing Assistance Program (CHAP) Contract
28-1-5 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (CHEER)
DCF-2252 Community Housing Employment Enrichment Resource (CHEER) Contract
28-1-6 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Adolescent Parents-Reproductive Care)
28-1-7 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Credit Reports)
28-1-8 Adolescent and Transitional Age Supports (Justice Involved Youth)

Chapter 29 - Voluntary Services Program

(Under Review) 29-1 Voluntary Services Program Overview

Practice Guides

2‐2PG Credentialing for Service Providers
DCF Contracting and Procurement Guide
2‐3PG Supervisor's Guide top Corrective Discipline
2‐3‐2PG Supervision
2‐5PG DCF Academy for Workforce Development

3‐1PG Worker Support and Secondary Trauma
3‐1PG Early Childhood Practice Guide for Children Aged Zero to Five
3‐1PG A Appendices ‐Childhood Early
3‐1PG Notification of Adverse Action Against a Provider
3-2-1 PG Post-Secondary Education Financial Assistant Program Practice Guide
3‐4PG The Private Provider Licensing Process

6‐7PG Introduction to Probate Court

20‐1PG Case Planning
PA 19-44 Sibling Bill of Rights
20‐1‐1PG Purposeful Visitation

21‐1PG Trauma‐Informed Care
21‐2PG Child and Family Permanency Teaming
21‐2PGA Permanency Teaming Appendix
21‐2‐1PG Considered Removal (CR-CFTM)
21‐3PG Delivery of Service in a Client's Preferred Method of Communication
21‐4PG Access to Early ChildhoodEducation
21‐5PG Health Care Standards and Practice for Children and Youth in Care
21‐5‐1PG HIV Testing
21‐6PG Regional Resource Group
21‐6PGA Criteria for Consults with The RRG,Attachment 1
21‐7PG Substance Use
21‐8PG Intimate Partner Violence
21‐9PG Safe Sleep Environments
21‐9 Safe Sleep Flyer ‐ English
21‐9 Safe Sleep Flyer ‐ Spanish
21‐13PG Immigration
21‐14PG Human Trafficking
21-15PG Practice Guide: Missing from Care Policy
21‐16PG Working with Transgender Youth and Caregivers
21‐20PG Unique Services and Expenditures (USE) Plans
21‐22PG Approval Process for Prevention and Emergency Safety Intervention Training Programs

22‐1PG Careline
22-1 PG SDM Careline Manual
22‐2‐1PG Family Assessment Response (FAR)

24‐1PG Foster Care, Adoption and Guardianship

28‐1PG V.I.T.A.L.