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Work Plan Detail C -- Item 6, Stability of Foster Care Placement
C5 ACTION STEPS:
START
DATE
May 2002
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Analyze data at the county and worker level to identify issues of stability on a certain caseload or in a certain
county.
The following was added per ACF review of 1 st Quarter Report:
To address the data discrepancy, DFCS must complete several assessments of moves in the financial reporting
system (COSTAR) to the number of moves reported in the Internal Data System/AFCARS (IDS). When the
computer system upgrade is completed, DFCS will compare the number of placement moves in the data system
to the number of placement moves in an on-site review of case records for children in non-related family foster
homes in Toombs, Fulton and Carroll counties. The Evaluating and Reporting Section (E&R) will generate a
sample of cases similar to the Child and Family.
COMPLETION
RESPONSIBLE
DATE
PERSON(S)
July 2003 3rd Quarter: Andy Barclay, Joe Wassell, Jill Andrews,
Requesting approval to TA: Shirley Vassey, Andy Barclay
extend the date to
November 2003 in order
to gather more data for
the analysis.
5th Quarter: Per
Annual
Evaluation/Renegotiatio
n the State requested an
extension to July 2004 in
order to collect data and
initiate data analysis in
the newly added
COSTAR data fields.
MEASURABLE
BENCHMARKS
Provide report of the findings to the team and each county
department.
1st Quarter Report: This benchmark was partially achieved. The Work Group developed a process to analyze data at the county
and worker level. DFCS must complete several computer system upgrades prior to implementing this action step. The upgrades should
be completed by June 2003. What needs to be accomplished: During the 2001 on- site case record review portion of the CFSR, a
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