Transcript Linkages Background

LINKAGES:
Service
Coordination
Partnership to
Strengthen Families
Working together to strengthen
families, ensure child safety,
promote well-being and sustain
self-sufficiency.
Linkages Jeopardy
Version 3
DCFS
5122
Family
Family
Service
Preservation Reunification Coordination
Outreach
Service
Coordination
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DCFS 5122
Screening/Referral
Form
The DCFS 5122 screening/referral
form is generated by the SAAMS or
Unit Clerks through this system
when a family is not open to
CalWORKs
What is CWS/CMS?
System used by DCFS
SAAMS and Unit Clerks to
check if a family has an
open CalWORKs case
What is LEADER?
The co-located LGSW screens
families/individuals for
CalWORKs/General Relief in TDM
meetings and THIS person screens
them outside of TDM meetings
Who is the DCFS CSW ?
Families/individuals not potentially
eligible for CalWORKs/General
Relief when screened by DCFS
CSWs, are referred to the
co-located LGSW to screen for this
What is CalFresh and Medi-Cal?
The DCFS 5122 referral is given
to families screened as
potentially eligible for DPSS aid
for this purpose
What are expedited
processing/services?
FAMILY PRESERVATION
The DCFS Community Based
Liaison (CBL) initiates the Family
Preservation referral (GN 2016) to
GAIN through this system when a
CalWORKs family is assigned to a
FP agency
What is the Family Preservation
(FP) Family Centered Services
(FCS) system?
DPSS employee who processes
the FP referral (GN 2016)
Who is the FP Liaison (GAIN
Services Supervisor) at the GAIN
Region/Office?
The DPSS worker who
participates in DCFS’ Family
Preservation Multi-disciplinary
Case Planning Committee
(MCPC) family meetings
Who is the FP GAIN Services Worker
(GSW) at the GAIN Region?
Entity who notifies the GAIN Region
FP GSW of scheduled Multidisciplinary Case Planning
Committee (MCPC) meetings for
Linkages (mutual) cases
Who is the FP Agency?
These 3 individuals have ongoing
service coordination, share case
plan updates, and communicate
progress on FP mutual cases
Who are the FP Agency, CSW &
FP GSW?
FAMILY REUNIFICATION
This person confirms a family’s
eligibility to CalWORKs Family
Reunification Services and initiates
the referral/form (DCFS 5230)
Who is the LGSW?
This individual requests a FR
service coordination referral
for a CalWORKs family when
the LGSW was not present in
the family’s TDM meeting
Who is the SCSW?
Upon LGSW verifying a parent is
eligible to CalWORKs FR services
through GAIN, the FR Liaisons are
notified at these 2 DPSS Offices
What are the CalWORKs
Districts & GAIN Offices?
The two individuals that MUST
have initial service coordination
and ongoing communication for
FR service coordination
Who are the DCFS CSW and
GAIN FR GSW?
The 3 systems that are
updated with a start/end date to
track Linkages Family
Reunification service
coordinated cases
What is CSW/CMS, LEADER,
and GEARS?
SERVICE COORDINATION
The 3 priority TDM meetings
attended by the co-located
LGSW
Who are mutual families,
families potentially eligible
for CalWORKs, and & relative
caregivers?
DPSS worker who the DCFS
CSW must have ongoing
service coordination with for
mutual cases
Who is the GAIN Services Worker
in the GAIN Region/Office?
Designated point of contact in
DPSS/DCFS offices to assist trouble
shoot a case, restore
communication between the casecarrying workers, or facilitate
restoration of lapsed service
coordination
Who is the office Linkages
Liaison/Coordinator?
The 3 primary roles of the
co-located LGSW
What is participation in priority TDM
meetings, conducting case
consultations, and connecting DCFS &
DPSS workers for ongoing service
coordination?
Linkages (mutual) families will
receive referrals to GAIN services
IF these two individuals
communicate
Who are the DCFS CSW and
GAIN Region GSW?
Outreach
Service Coordination
Linkages protocol that involves initial
coordination of services between the
DPSS Homeless Case Manager &
case-carrying DCFS Children’s Social
Worker (CSW)
What is Homeless Outreach?
Mutual homeless families are
identified for the Homeless Outreach
Protocol through this
What is the monthly match list of CalWORKs
homeless families who have an open DCFS
case plan (voluntary/court)
DPSS worker who initiates outreach
to mutual DCFS/DPSS homeless
families to access housing needs &
provide homeless/housing assistance
Who is the Homeless Case Manager?
The Homeless Case Manager and
this person must discuss the mutual
homeless family’s housing and other
identified needs to plan for the initial
and ongoing service coordination
Who is the DCFS CSW?
Emergency Shelter, Homeless
Assistance Temporary/Permanent
Housing, Emergency/Transitional
Housing, and referrals to Food Banks
What are the services/referrals
provided as part of the HCMs’
outreach?