Nevada Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 6, 2015) |
Chapter432B Protection of Children From Abuse and Neglect |
CHILD WELFARE SERVICES AND CUSTODY |
NAC432B.200. Use of family’s strengths and resources.
- When providing child welfare services to a child, a caseworker shall engage the child’s family in using its own strengths and resources throughout the process for planning services, by:
1. Fully exploring the needs of the child’s family and alternatives to separation of the family;
2. Identifying each family member’s strengths and using those strengths in the process of solving problems;
3. Developing individualized goals for services and treatment, time-limited steps to accomplish these goals, and target dates for their evaluation and completion;
4. Exploring and selecting remedial measures and resources which are based on differential use of methods of social work in accordance with varying family needs and dynamics;
5. Explaining the family’s strengths and needs to the community resources that are serving the family so that their approaches or responses to the family can be modified; and
6. Preparing the family for the use of resources and plans for monitoring and follow-up.
[Welfare Div., Standards for Child Protective Services part Art. III-E, eff. 9-11-87]—(NAC A by Div. of Child & Fam. Services by R045-02, 7-23-2002)