NAC432B.200. Use of family’s strengths and resources.  


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  • 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)