
The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) is a national policy that offers an opportunity to supply more supports and services to maintain children and youth in home-like settings with families. The overarching goal of Part 1 of the act is prevention. Part 1 seeks to prevent the need for foster care while supporting children, youth, and families in their homes.

The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA) is a landmark federally supported opportunity to provide more supports and services to maintain children and youth in home-like settings with their natural caregivers and families. Certain requirements of the Act necessitate program monitoring and evaluation of services provided. This blog describes how Opeeka’s Person-Centered Intelligence Solution (P-CIS /pieces/) supports agencies to meet these requirements.

There is limited information about which type of therapy best for treating specific childhood mental disorders. Clinical outcome measures can help us observe the progress of a child with a mental disorder and improve the quality of treatments. The benefits of clinical outcome measures in routine evaluation is that they can capture a variety of different aspects of the child’s story and functioning. It is very useful in the evaluation of a child’s mental health status.

There is limited information about which type of therapy best treats specific childhood mental disorders. Clinical outcome measures can help us observe the progress of a child with a mental disorder and improve the quality of treatments. The benefit of clinical outcome measures in routine evaluation is that they can capture various aspects of the child’s story and functioning. It is very useful in evaluating a child’s mental health status.

The view of an individual within the context of their family, living within a community, internalizing life through cultural lenses and all this connected to a larger societal influence (bio-ethno-gender-socio-economic status). All of this provides, the most plural, ‘US’ with the information needed to effectively do our work while transformationally empowering those we serve.

The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Assessment is a measure of child and adolescent areas of need to address and strengths to use or build. It helps professionals, parents, teachers, and others to incrementally track progress toward larger goals of development and care.