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Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3
3.11 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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CHAPTER 4
4.37 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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Intake
2.1 Receiving and Assigning the Report
2.2 Reports Not Accepted for Assessment/Investigation
2.3 Acceptance Criteria
2.4 Non-Investigatory Response
2.6 Completing the CPS Intake
2.7 Safe Infant Act-Intake
Conducting the Investigation or Family in Need of Services Assessment
2.10 Initiating the Report
2.11 Investigation Protocol
2.11.1 Assessments Involving Methamphetamine Labs
2.11.2 – Assessments of Parenting Youth
2.11.3 Assessments Involving Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence
2.12 Completing the Assessment and Documentation Tool (ADT)
2.13 Structured Decision Making Safety and Risk Assessments
2.16 Safe Infant Act Assessments
2.22 Making a Finding, Notifications, and Court Involvement
2.14-Investigations-of-Child-Fatalities-and-Near-Fatalities
2.14.2 Notification and Funeral Preparation Regarding a Child Fatality
2.15 Specialized Investigations
2.15.1 Investigations of Foster or Adoptive Homes (DCBS or Private Child Placing (PCP) Agencies)
2.15.2 Investigations of Licensed Private Child Caring Facilities
2.15.3 Investigations of Licensed Child Care Centers
2.15.4 Investigations of Registered (Subsidized) Family Child Care Providers
2.15.5 Investigations of School Personnel
2.15.6 Investigations of Supports for Community Living (SCL) and Community Mental Health/Intellectual Disability (CMHC)
2.15.7 Investigations of Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF), Crisis Stabilization Units or Psychiatric Hospitals
2.15.8 Investigations Involving DCBS Employees
2.15.9 Investigations of Human Trafficking
2.15.10 Investigation of Female Genital Mutilation
Consultations and Staffing Requirements
2.23 Pediatric Forensic Medicine Consultations
2.24 Child Emotional Abuse Investigations and Emotional Injury Evaluations
Standards of Practice Manual
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2.14.2 Notification and Funeral Preparation Regarding a Child Fatality
Effective: 1/15/2016
2.14.2 Notification and Funeral Preparation Regarding a Child Fatality
Legal Authority
KRS 72.025 Circumstances requiring post-mortem examination to be performed by coroner
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KRS 72.405 Definitions
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KRS 211.680-211.686 Review of Child Fatalities
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KRS 600.020 Definitions for KRS Chapters 600 to 645
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KRS 620.050 Immunity for good faith actions or reports-Investigations–Confidentiality of reports-Exceptions-Parent's access to records-Sharing of information by children's advocacy centers-Confidentiality of interview with child-Exceptions
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Introduction
Introduction
Practice Guidance
Practice Guidance
The notification of the birth parents regarding a fatality or near fatality is recommended to be a personal visit.
All personal and family resources, including the child’s trust fund and insurance in the child’s name, are to be exhausted prior to approval of Cabinet funds for funeral and burial expenses.
Funeral arrangements remain the responsibility of the birth parents whenever possible unless parental rights have been terminated or a decision is made by the SRA or designee that the Cabinet will assume that responsibility.
The selection of a funeral home, mortician, casket and burial lot are to be based on estimates of cost that are reasonable and on consideration of the choice of the birth parents.
The SSW may purchase clothing for burial or the birth family, foster family, extended family, etc. may provide clothing.
The SSW may select flowers, billing the Department and forwarding the invoice to the regional billing clerk.
Arrangements for religious services may be made with a clergyman of the birth parents’ faith. If the birth parents’ faith is unknown, a clergyman of the foster parents’ faith may conduct services.
Trauma is inherent in fatality and near fatality investigations, and in situations where a child dies while actively involved with the agency. SOP 1.13 Debriefing Protection and Permanency (DPP) Staff on Reaction and Emotional Responses to Trauma was developed to assist P&P staff in coping with reactions to trau
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Procedure
Procedure
Birth Parent Notification
The service region administrator (SRA) or designee:
Appoints a SSW or FSOS to immediately notify the child’s parents of the fatality or near fatality when:
The child is in the custody of the Cabinet and placed out of the birth parent’s home in a:
Foster home;
Cabinet facility;
Psychiatric unit/hospital; or
Private child-caring facility; and
Parent’s parental rights are intact;
Determines whether to notify birth parents when parental rights have been terminated, there has been ongoing contact or other special circumstances and a finalized adoption has not occurred.
Funeral Arrangements
The SSW:
Explores with the birth parents their ability to accept financial responsibility for the funeral when the child is in the custody of the Cabinet;
Pre-plans the funeral with the birth parents, and/or caregiver if the birth parents are not involved, when a child is in the custody of the Cabinet and their death is imminent, which includes the following steps:
Contacting funeral homes to get cost estimates for a pre-planned funeral, which includes the burial plot and opening of the grave;
Submitting to the FSOS:
A Request for Approval of Special Expense (sample form) for the funeral to the FSOS for review, outlining the specific needs and circumstances pertinent to the request; and
Copies of funeral cost estimates;
Files the Request for Approval for Special Expense and the funeral cost estimate of the funeral home selected in the child’s case record upon approval by the SRA;
Notifies the birth parents and/or caregiver, if the birth parents are not involved, to inform the approved funeral home and proceed with the funeral arrangements;
Forwards invoices upon receipt, along with the special expense approval from the SRA, to the regional billing specialist for processing as normal;
Follows the procedures as outlined in the Practice Guidance section of this SOP for funeral arrangements and payment when a child is in the custody of the Cabinet and death occurs without the opportunity for a pre-planned funeral.
The FSOS:
Upon review of the special expense form, submits the Request for Approval of Special Expense and copies of the funeral cost estimates to the SRA for approval.
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Documents
Determining Fatality, Near Fatality Designation Flow Chart
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DPP-115 Confidential Suspected Abuse-Neglect, Dependency or Exploitation Reporting Form
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Request for Approval of Special Expense
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Revisions
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